Photos by Randall Starr

LIGHT FALLS

By Simon Stephens
Directed by Robin Witt
A U.S. Premiere

For one clear moment, rain and light fall from a cloudless sky. For one clear moment, Christine sees the lives of her family, her town, her world stretched before her, beyond her. Simon Stephens’ Light Falls is a haunting tale of resilience, hope, and the impossibly strong bonds of family.

★★★★ “simple, kind and exquisite”
-Chicago Tribune

Tickets & Information

Ticket Pricing

General Admission: $30
Reserved Seats: $40
Access Tickets: $10
(Access tickets are our universal discount available to anyone in need of a discount)

Performance Schedule

Previews: July 2 - July 7
Press Opening: Friday, July 8
Performances: July 8 - August 13
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evenings at 7:30 pm
Sunday afternoons at 3 pm

Running Time: 2:30 with one intermission

Production Sponsors: Dr. Susan Burland & George Plumb, Ken Burlington, Kassie Davis & Bruce Beatus, Karen Shankman & Jim Fruehling, Lisa & Randy White, Jan Willer & Mark Osing, Martha Anne & Stephen Yandle

Content Advisory: This production is intended for adult audiences. For more information about the content of this show, please click here.

Performance Location

Theater Wit
1229 W Belmont Ave
Chicago, IL 60657

Accessibility
Audio Description and a Touch Tour will be available on Sunday, July 24. Open Captioning will be available on Sunday, July 31. Contact us at access@steeptheatre.com or 773-649-3186 for more information or to reserve tickets.

Covid Protocols: Prior to joining us for a show, please take a look at our safety requirements in place.

CAST

Kendra Thulinˆ
Stephanie Mattos
Nate Faustˆ
Pete Mooreˆ
Cindy Markerˆ
Omer Abbas Salemˆ (July 8 - July 24)
August Forman (July 28 - August 13)
Brandon Riveraˆ
Susaan Jamshidi*
Ashlyn Lozan
Debo Balogunˆ

Creative Team

Director – Robin Wittˆ
Stage Manager – Lauren Lassusˆ
Scenic Designer – Sotirios Livaditis
Costume Designer – Alison Sipleˆˆ
Lighting Designers – Brandon Wardellˆ
Sound Designer – Daniel Etti-Williams
Composer & Music Director – Thomas Dixonˆ
Intimacy Choreographer - Micah Figueroa
Dialect Coach - Adam Goldstein
Production Manager – Catherine Allenˆ
Production Electrician – Haley Carr
Technical Director – Evan Sposato
Assistant Director –Lisa Harriman
Casting Director – Lucy Carapetyanˆ
Graphic Designer - Stu Kiesow

ˆ Steep Company Member
ˆˆ Steep Artistic Associate
* Appearing through an Agreement between Steep Theatre and Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States

In the Press

★★★★

“It is unspeakably wonderful to experience this writer, this director and this essential Chicago theater company all back together again.” -Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune Read the full review

“It’s a brilliantly written and staged panorama.” -Nancy S. Bishop, Third Coast Review Read the full review

Simon Stephens

Simon Stephens is an English playwright whose plays have been widely produced in the UK, Europe, Australia, and the US. Stephens is an Artistic Associate at the Lyric Hammersmith and has been an Associate Playwright of Steep Theatre since 2013. In addition to his Olivier and Tony Award for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Stephens has received the 2001 Pearson Award for Best Play for Port; the 2005 Olivier Award for Best New Play for On the Shore of the Wide World;  Theater Heute’s Award for Motortown in 2007, Pornography in 2008 and Wastwater in 2011; and the 2009 Manchester Evening News Award for Best Production for Punk Rock. His play Heisenberg premiered in New York in 2015, opened on Broadway in 2016, and is currently enjoying productions all over the globe. Stephens visited Steep in 2012 and 2016, during which he performed public readings of his works Sea Wall and Song from Faraway, and Steep presented the first ever public reading of his play Blindsided, a new work commissioned by the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, England.

Stephens’ other works include Bluebird, Herons, One Minute, Country Music, Harper Regan, I am the Wind, Three Kingdoms, Morning, a new version of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, Carmen Disruption, The Funfair, a new version of Ödön von Horváth’s Kasimir and Karoline, his version of Brecht and Weill’s The Threepenny Opera, Nuclear War, Fatherland, his English language version of Obsession, and his new adaptation of Chekhov’s The Seagull.