The Evening News called Alan Ayckbourn’s Taking Steps “a farce of riotous delight.” In an old and reputedly haunted house are gathered a hard-drinking tycoon considering buying the property, his wife who is always considering leaving him, his lawyer, the builder selling the house, the tycoon's brother-in-law, and his in-law's fiancee who is possibly running away from the impending marriage. The Guardian dubbed this comedy “a tour de force. In a collapsing house, relationships are falling apart. Four selfish characters get their just deserts, two deserving characters get theirs.” Troy Johnson directs a cast of the Bay Area’s best comic actors.