At left stands Glenn Davis, a bald Black man in a dark gray suit with an insignia pinned to the lape. He is playing Vova, and stands slightly in front and to the side of a very long open file drawer. On the right on the other side of the drawer is Yasen Peyankov as Nikolai. He is an older white man with thinning hair and dark-rimmed glasses, and he wears tan trousers, a white shirt, and a brown cardigan wth the same insignia pinned to it.

I’m just going to get the obvious adjective out of the way right now: Rajiv Joseph’s Describe the Night, now in its local premiere at Steppenwolf under Austin Pendleton’s direction, is definitely Stoppardian.  As in much of Tom Stoppard’s work, the story spans decades—1920-2010, to be precise. And like Stoppard, an object (in this case, […]

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