Art Access

Theatre is for everyone 

You can help make the Steppenwolf experience accessible for people with disabilities (as well as their friends and families!) with a gift to our Art Access campaign.

Your gift will support: 

• Guests who are deaf or hard of hearing by helping us offer Open Captioning, ASL-interpretation and Assistive Listening Devices for all of our mainstage and Steppenwolf for Young Adults productions
• Guests who use personal hearing devices by helping us maintain induction hearing loops in our Downstairs and 1700 Theatres. (A hearing loop is an amplification system that transmits sound directly to guests’ individual hearing aids—we’re proud to be one of the first non-profit theaters in the country to make this feature available.)
• Guests on the autism spectrum and people with sensory sensitivities by helping us present Relaxed/Sensory-Friendly performances of our SYA productions. (Again, we’re proud to be one of the first non-profit theaters in the country to offer this this programming for teenagers and adults.)
• Guests who are blind or have low vision by offering Audio Description, pre-performance explorations of the set, curb-to-seat assistance, and playbills in Braille, large print and audio formats.
• Guests who require physical access by helping us upkeep accessible parking spaces, seating, restrooms and staff training.
• Arts patrons with disabilities throughout Chicago by helping us - in partnership with the Chicago Cultural Accessibility Consortium - manage an accessible equipment loan program that shares Open Captioning and Audio Description technology with sister theaters and arts organizations.

Join us now!