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The Steps Theatre Production company has this year reached its tenth anniversary. A multicultural, nonprofit company, Steps Theatre was founded in 1997 by director Slava Stepnov. The casts of STEPS Theatre's shows might include actors from Israel, Peru, Serbia, France, Germany, Ukraine and Russia, who now live in the Big Apple, in addition to actors from the US. Steps Theatre started with Chekhov's "Seagull," which was followed by Edward Albee's "Lolita" based on Vladimir Nabokov's novel. Next came Luigi Pirandello's "The Freak of Nature", To Kill Charlotte based on Chekhov's "Ivanov", CAIN by Lord Byron, Last Summer in Chulimsk by Aleksandr Vampilov, Pannochka by Nina Sadur, based on Googol's novel "Viy" and others. To Kill Charlotte was presented at the "Chekhov Now" festival and Cain was selected by "OOBR Review" magazine as the best production of November 2000 in New York City. As Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said in his support letter, "Steps" art plays a pivotal role in strengthening our City's spirit and our quality of life, and I commend their commitment to performance art." Steps Theatre's works were critically acclaimed by Daily News, The Village Voice, OOBR Review Magazine, Show Business Weekly, Noticias Del Mundo, El Comercio, Novoe Russkoe Slovo, Russian TV Guide. In the summer of 2002 Steps participated in the Fourth International Theatre Festival Kiev Travnevy presenting production Not What it Seems To Be, based on Julio Cortazar's short stories. The Ukrainian magazine "New Generation" called this production "The event and discovery of the festival". In May 2006 Steps was invited to "Kiev Travnevy" to perform last premiere "Oscar and the Lady in Pink" by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt and, according to audience and media, became true event of the Festival. Two Steps Theatre's productions took place in Lima, Peru. In the 2002 season company presented Byron's mystery of "Cain", in Spanish, in cooperation with Peruvian colleagues. The last premiere of "Chaika" , new version of Chekhov's Seagull, directed by Slava Stepnov, was opened in Lima in September of 2003 and is very well acclaimed by critics and audience. In its 2007 season Steps Theatre will continue working on theatrical adaptation of Isaac Bashevis Singer's novel "Enemies. A love story" Steps plans also include a theatrical adaptation of "Little Tragedies" by Aleksandr Pushkin. Steps Theatre would like to express gratitude to the following organizations whose grants helped support our productions:UJA FEDERATION / COJECO