Daily Archives: October 22, 2015

EAST OF EDEN: Steppenwolf’s Triumphant “Story of Every Human Soul”

What makes the Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s production of Terry Kinney’s direction of Frank Galati’s adaptation of John Steinbeck’s East of Eden superior in every way to the 1955 Elia Kazan directed Paul Osborn scripted film? Let me count the ways. First, Steppenwolf understands Steinbeck’s story. Despite his deserved fame as a stage and screen director, […]