288 stories by "Catey Sullivan"
Cabinet of Curiosity sets sail with a new live show about mermaids, whales, sharks, seagulls"and climate disaster
It begins, as many wonderful things do, with th…
Eschaton host Tony Grayson rolls out the willkommen mat for a livestream variety show.
If the great surrealist painter Salvador Dalà and iconic LSD proponent …
About Face Theatre takes the mystery out of training next-generation LGBTQ+ artists"while putting it into a streaming production.
Read from the scroll of off-Loo…
The full musical at Chicago Shakes is on hold, but you can see a streaming mockumentary based on the OG aliens-in-the-desert flick.
Bow down to It Came from Oute…
Kristine Thatcher and the late Larry Shue's Waiting for Tina Meyer celebrates barfly connections.
Playwright Kristine Thatcher picked up where she and actor-play…
After a year of heartbreak, Heather Chrisler is back to acting, as well as writing and illustrating.
In March 2020, playwright Heather Chrisler was holding audit…
American Music Theatre Project unveils three student-created pieces in this year's online Capstone Festival.
Since 2005, Northwestern University's American Music…
Weirdness and wonder abound in Matei ViÅŸniec's Decomposed Theatre at Trap Door, but be prepared for creepiness, too.
With nearly 40 actors, eight directors, a…
This interactive performance-piece-by-phone offers a daily dose of oddness.
The operatives at The Ministry of Mundane Mysteries (now making their Chicago debut w…
The annual festival of storytelling offers the freshest catches for COVID days.
In the Before Times"before the Moth, before the Stoop, before the phrase "live li…
Theatre Above the Law's production lets its leads drop the masks for one moment in time.
In COVID times, gestures that would have been banal and forgettable a ye…
Jon Tai's intimate take on magic and storytelling comes (virtually) to A Red Orchid.
Jon Tai is something of an antimagician. Tricking you, he says, isn't exactl…
This year's Bechdel Fest realigns online.
Alison Bechdel's iconic eponymous Bechdel Test isn't the same exam it was when the award-winning graphic writer (Fun Ho…
Fleetwood-Jourdain spearheads a new collaboration "Celebrating Life, Community and the Arts."
Shortly after the pandemic shut down the theaters, Fleetwood-Jourda…
Melissa Leilani Larson and Lavina Jadhwani reimagine a classic for BIPOC voices.
More than 30 years into this gig, I've lost track of how many times I've seen Ja…
With a trio of walkabout podcasts, Chicago Children's Theatre urges kids to go take a hike.
Aztec deities. Sistine Chapel replicas.…
The crafty, supernatural queen hosts the webseries Knitting's A Drag.
The queendom of drag is vast and diverse: There are comedy queens and look queens and insul…
Random Acts, Unwell, and PlayMakers Laboratory create scary stories to share (online) in the dark.
Exal Iraheta grew up listening to tales from Central American …
The Neo-Futurists create short digital plays about the often-overlooked women in the White House.
Time was when the future looked rather grim indeed for the late…
Fire, break-ins, and COVID: the Motor Row drag palace has had a bumpy first year.
Like many drag queens, Chicago's Tori Sass has been through it this year. It st…
Their annual festival is on pandemic pause, but CLATA still celebrates the diversity of local theater companies.
When Myrna Salazar founded the Chicago Latino Th…
Emmanuel Neal joins CHRP as interim managing director, but the founder's comments on Black Lives Matter spark outrage.
Add the Chicago Human Rhythm Project (CHRP…
The 88-year-old musical theater icon talks about staying home"and coming out.
Back in early March, Broadway icon Joel Grey, 88, was finalizing his plans to visit…
Zoom past the COVID doldrums with these August workshops.
Shadow and light. Wood and paper.…
The Drag Race all-star challenges racism both onstage and off.
To describe the driving ethos of Chicago's drag house Maison Couleé, you need look no further tha…
