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Petey (John Mahoney) embraces his wife, Meg (Moira Harris), in Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s production of "The Birthday Party" by Harold Pinter, directed by Austin Pendleton.
Mobster Nat Goldberg (Francis Guinan, left) arrives with a taciturn henchman (Marc Grapey) in Harold Pinter’s “The Birthday Party.” | Michael Brosilow photo
It is a dining room table — that iconic symbol of “the nuclear family” — that serves as the centerpiece of the spellbinding Steppenwolf Theatre revival of “The Birthday Party,” Harold Pinter’s deeply enigmatic, creepily sinister, often darkly funny play dating from 1958. And to …
