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The renowned Steppenwolf theatre in Chicago has broken ground on a $54m expansion that will include an “intimate” 400-seat theatre-in-the-round.

In the magnificent “Bullfight, San Sebastian, 1929,” Albers presents three photographs arranged to create a swirling theatre-in-the-round view of the crowded arena stands, while a fourth image, arranged below, shows rows of cars in traffic shot from above—a deliberate comment on the encroaching mechanization of human experience.

The Stephen Joseph, which produces about 10 plays a year and was one of the first to champion theatre-in-the-round, has been the launch-pad for numerous stage and screen writers over the years such as Evans, Torben Betts and Robert Shearman.

There is widespread enthusiasm for immersive, site-specific performance, as well as a revival of interest in older performance forms like theatre-in-the-round, traverse, promenade and street theatre.

He pioneered theatre-in-the-round and, as the artistic director of the Victoria theatre in Stoke-on-Trent and then the New Vic in Newcastle-under-Lyme, installed a vibrant, creative hothouse in the industrial sprawl of the Potteries.