234 stories by "Catey Sullivan"
With Beauty's Daughter, Playwright Dael Orlandersmith returns to the broken beauty of Harlem, where she came of age. Directed by Ron OJ Parson, and starring the indelible Wandachristine, thi…
As national tours go, Something Rotten! is something splendid - a mindess but gleeful hoot-and-a-half. If you aren't laughing five minutes in, you seriously need to lighten up. Highly Recom…
Moliere penned The School for Lies more than 350 years ago, but in David Ives' insouciant, gleefully anachronistic reboot, the satire still glitters and cuts like fine-cut diamonds. The rhym…
Rock critic Lester Bangs didn't live long " he died at 33 after overdosing on cough syrup " but his short career chronicling the gods of rock and roll had lasting impact. In the one-man show…
The plot of D. L. Coburn's 100-minute, two-person drama sounds so simple you wonder how it could possibly be a compelling drama: Two people play half a dozen hands of gin. Yet within this sm…
Enter the world of most Eugene O'Neill plays and you'll find yourself in a world of hurt. The exception that proves the rule is Ah, Wilderness!, O'Neill's sole romantic comedy. Set on the 4t…
Visually sumptuous and sonically gorgeous, Broadway in Chicago's opulent national tour of The King and I is a throwback to the golden era of Rodgers and Hammerstein. Highly Recommended! (rea…
Holy Virginia Creeper On a Stick. Not since before the November election have I laughed as long, hard and cathartically as I did at Karen Zacarias' Native Gardens. But what starts as a comed…
Steppenwolf's world premiere Pass Over is the rare drama that will keep you utterly rapt from start to finish, while also spinning an unforgettable commentary on the problems that plague 21s…
Playwright Mark St. Germain's intriguing Relativity, directed by BJ Jones, goes far deeper than the famously tousled shock of white hair that Einstein will forever be associated with. As Ein…
Under Gary Griffin's direction, the musical Parade is an exquisitely rendered ensemble piece defined by richly nuanced performances and sonic majesty. Anchored by Patrick Andrews as Leo Fran…
With the funny, perceptive T., playwright Dan Aibel's shows that an infamous sports attack didn't happen in a vacuum. Figure skating (and society's) rigid rules about how women should behave…
There's a fascinating, important story in Detroit's Black Bottom community, both in its thriving heyday and in the institutionalized racism that erased it. Playwright Dominique Morisseau sta…
After over a decade of pursuing the elusive rights to the show, Drury Lane finally got the green light to put their stamp on John Kander's and Fred Ebb's classic musical. Director William Os…
Sparkling wit, a feel-good romance and a sexy, sassy, intelligent heroine - with those elements firmly in place, Chicago Shakespeare's Shakespeare in Love is just the thing to usher in the s…
As romances go, She Loves Me, by Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock, is as pretty as a glossy-page perfume insert. In the Marriott Lincolnshire production, It is also just about as deep. Slightl…
As a piece of storytelling, Objects in the Mirror is riveting. Playwright Charles Smith's world premiere drama about a Liberian refugee is so fraught with tension that it makes you forget to…
It's tough to find words to describe the the vocal magnificence and dramatic intensity of Paramount Theatre's extraordinary production of Jesus Christ Superstar. Andrew Lloyd Webber (music) …
There's no denying that My Fair Lady is a sonic masterpiece. For a gloriously full-throated, lushly orchestrated rendition of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's 1956 classic, the Lyric Op…
With 3C, David Adjmi deconstructs the inherent hatefulness of the 70's sitcom Three's Company. Watch the show today, and you'll cringe at how it dehumanizes gay men, turning them into nothi…
There's not a child in the land who wouldn't love Disney's Aladdin. The music is terrific, from the adventuresome romance of "Whole New World," to the splendor-on-steroids treasure cave glam…
Frank Loesser's score has some fine moments, Adam Veness' vineyard set is impressive, and newcomer Molly Hernandez' powerful soprano and radiant stage presence is a huge new talent who seems…
Madhuri Shekar's Queen a is fascinating, provacative world premiere about the science and research surrounding bee ecology. The dialogue is witty and insightful that delves both the sense a…
In Porchlight Music Theatre's 70-minutes two-hander romance of Stephen Sondheim out-takes, Austin Cook and Bethany Thomas deliver sonic wonders and emotional depth. The songs of Marry Me a L…
Playwright Tracy Letts certainly knows how to deliver dialogue that's balanced on a razor-wire between edgy and Neil Simon. With Linda Vista, he's does this deftly, scoring numerous audience…
