Nimbus’s ‘Steady Rain’

Nimbus Productions will present “A Steady Rain,” a play starring Edward Kassar and Joe Pallister, beginning next Thursday and running through March 19 at Guild Hall. Jenna Mate is directing.

The plot centers on two Chicago cops who are lifelong friends and support systems for each other. But when the unthinkable happens and they bear the responsibility, their friendship is torn.

With a plot involving all the usual suspects on the mean streets of a violent city, and an even darker undercurrent of serial killings and even cannibalism, the play is told from each friend’s perspective and then drawn out in intense dialogues.

Produced on Broadway in 2009 with Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig starring, “Steady Rain” was praised by Time magazine for its “tough-minded script, which takes potentially clichéd material . . . and makes it fresh and compelling.”

Showtimes are Thursdays at 7 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., and Sundays at 2 p.m. Tickets, $28, are available online through brownpapertickets.com.