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Readers’ Rock List: Animal Bands

Rock Daily is amped to be hitting the SXSW festival later this week, where we’ll surely be encountering dozens of bands named after animals. So we dedicated the Weekend Rock List to all the Animal Bands that looked to wildlife for inspiration. To avoid a landslide, bugs — and thus the Beatles — were banned. With the Fab Four out, our readers voted Animal Collective as the king of the rock jungle, thanks to their new Merriweather Post Pavilion. The Collective edged out Eagles, Animals and many more furry and feathered bands. To see if your favorite Animal Band made it, check the Readers’ List below: 1. Animal Collective 2. Eagles 3. The Animals 4. Fleet Foxes 5. Grizzly Bear 6. Modest Mouse 7. Super Furry Animals 8. Cat Power 9. Panda Bear 10. Wolfmother 11. The Monkees 12. Def Leppard 13. Steppenwolf 14. Wolf Parade 15. Phish 16. The Byrds 17. Gorillaz 18. The Turtles 19. The Yardbirds 20. Dr. Dog

Published: 2009-03-16 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock Lists

Steppenwolf's Goldy McJohn is on tour with a stop in Seattle

Music & nightlifeGoldy McJohn, the original keyboard player in Steppenwolf, plays with Goldy McJohn & Friendz; Roger Fisher; and Sex and Violins in Seattle at the Showbox SoDo on April 11.

Published: 2009-04-10 Provider: Seattle Times

Carter's Way

Legit Reviews: To fully appreciate the depth and breadth of quality within the Steppenwolf acting ensemble, seeing the Broadway hit "August: Osage County" won't suffice.

Published: 2008-03-10 Provider: Variety.com

Steppenwolf plays up U.S.

Legit News: Theater company season goes all-American -- Plays by Arthur Miller, contemporary playwrights Sarah Ruhl and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and ensemble members Tracy Letts and Eric Simonson make up Steppenwolf Theater Company's all-American 2007-08 subscription series.

Published: 2007-03-05 Provider: Variety.com

Broadway Strike Ends With a Tentative Deal

NEW YORK, Nov. 28 -- Broadway stagehands and theater producers reached a tentative agreement Wednesday night to end a strike and almost immediately return to the stage most of the two dozen plays and musicals that have been shut down for more than two weeks.

Published: 2007-11-29 Provider: Washington Post

'August' sweeps Jefferson Awards

Legit News: Steppenwolf production sweeps with six wins -- "August: Osage County," the family drama by Tracy Letts currently previewing on Broadway, surprised no one by dominating Chicago's legit kudos, racking up six Joseph Jefferson Awards Monday night.

Published: 2007-10-30 Provider: Variety.com

Letts knows how to write 'juicy'

Legit News: 'Osage' playwright takes a bow at Steppenwolf -- "I know what makes a role juicy for me when I'm playing it," says Tracy Letts. Letts also knows how to craft juicy roles as a playwright, because he populates his 13-character play, "August: Osage County," with a slew of them.

Published: 2007-09-14 Provider: Variety.com

The Pillowman

Legit Reviews: This season, barely a city in America will be deprived of Martin McDonagh's macabre "The Pillowman." After all, what regional theater could resist this deliciously twisty tale, in which a writer in an unnamed totalitarian state is interrogated for a series of child murders based on his own unpublished narratives?

Published: 2006-09-25 Provider: Variety.com

The Unmentionables

Legit Reviews: The place is a fictional country in Africa, the time is the present, and the cast of characters includes a bunch of very silly -- or at least extremely self-delusional -- Americans. In "The Unmentionables," Bruce Norris' lucidly satirical and mostly breezy take on Americans abroad in the Third World, a desire to do good eventually comes off as one more excuse for some not-so-selfless pursuits, regularly creates victims and sooner or later is exposed as a form of hypocrisy.

Published: 2006-07-11 Provider: Variety.com Keywords: Entertainment Industry News, Daily Variety, Movie Reviews, TV, Awards, Oscars, Cannes, Box Office, Hollywood

Love-Lies-Bleeding

Legit Front Reviews: The national debate over euthanasia, which recently peaked as a transparent attention-getter for politicos and cable news channels, is playing out in more contemplative fashion in Don DeLillo's "Love-Lies-Bleeding." Chicago's Steppenwolf Theater continues its relationship with the author-playwright in this premiere production about the life and induced death of a stroke victim.

Published: 2006-06-21 Provider: Variety.com Keywords: Entertainment Industry News, Daily Variety, Movie Reviews, TV, Awards, Oscars, Cannes, Box Office, Hollywood

M. Proust

Legit Reviews: Mary Zimmerman is the type of auteur theater artist who doesn't so much write for the stage as craft her work on it. For "M. Proust," director Eric Rosen finds some ways to prettify this one-person play about the famous novelist's housekeeper, this show never escapes from the staid and studied into anything resembling drama.

Published: 2006-06-20 Provider: Variety.com Keywords: Entertainment Industry News, Daily Variety, Movie Reviews, TV, Awards, Oscars, Cannes, Box Office, Hollywood

Five Favorite Films with John Malkovich

Actor, producer, and director John Malkovich has had a long career spanning almost three decades. Beginning in high school on stage, Malkovich, a founding member of the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago, has also earned praise for several of his film roles, including supporting turns in 1984's Places in the Heart and 1993's In the Line of Fire. This week, Malkovich stars in a new independent film, Disgrace, which opens in limited release on Friday. When we asked John for his Five Favorite Films, he

Published: 2009-09-15 Provider: Rotten Tomatoes