288 stories by "Catey Sullivan"
Levi Holloway's horror show for A Red Orchid Theatre gives a feminist makeover to a familiar genre.
Onstage or -screen, the tropes of horror (teens in peril, dem…
Three Crows tries to breathe life into a play bogged down in stereotypes.
Think The Dukes of Hazzard meets Night of the Living Dead, but more reliant on stereoty…
Ida Cuttler's solo show for the Neo-Futurists considers the stories women tell to save their lives.
Toward the end of her rambunctious and profound one-woman sho…
The star of Porchight's revival talks about surviving the postingenue years.
Since arriving in Chicago in 1980, Ohio native Hollis Resnik has embodied a pantheon…
Walkabout Theater's ensemble-created show suffers from too many unresolved threads.
Imagine watching a class of preschoolers hopped up on cupcakes, acting out th…
Chicago Shakespeare's production is pretty and witty, but lacks dramatic tension.
The rise of Albert, Duke of York, from stammering puddle of self-doubt to globa…
Jessica Swale's set-in-1896 drama feels depressingly contemporary in Promethean's production.
Jessica Swale's 1896-set drama should come with a trigger warning. …
Thirty years later, Lauren Yee's play depicts the events during the failed Chinese uprising with sympathy and surprising humor.
In June, the Washington Post publ…
In His Shadow, an aspiring football player confronts his brother's legacy and the price of protesting.
Back in 2016 when she was still practicing law in Chicago,…
Terry Guest's two-character play for Story Theatre delivers an emotional knockout.
When you think of the staggering levels of violence that members of the LGBTQI…
Productions this fall in Chicago suggest their numbers are growing, but women in theatrical design still struggle for jobs and recognition.
Roughly 15 or so year…
Jillian Leff's world premiere for Right Brain Project offers a fantasy version of the publishing world.
Playwright Jillian Leff's tale of a rookie novelist whose…
Matt Foss's adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque's World War I classic is both powerful and frustrating.
Red Tape Theatre's take on Erich Maria Remarque's 1929 cla…
Collaboraction's annual anthology of short plays about peace, love, and understanding kicks off its season on the south side.
Eviction and art. As a grade-school…
A jukebox musical provides a stirring history lesson about gay life in the 1930s.
Long before the Viagra Triangle took root in the Gold Coast, 909 Rush Street wa…
A touring musical about the town that hosted the world after 9/11 brings the love.
From the iconic image of the lone "falling man" to the gut-punch visual of wal…
Black Ensemble Theater's celebration of the history of funk dazzles with defiant joy.
Now onstage at Black Ensemble Theater: a hard-charging, gotta-dance, groovi…
An adoptee seeks comfort and safety in lupine identity in Hansol Jung's latest.
Never doubt the emotional layers possible from an expertly crafted, exquisitely m…
Jon Michael Hill and Namir Smallwood breathe fire into Steppenwolf's revival.
If you've been banging around the Chicago theatrosphere longer than 25 seconds, you…
Mary Zimmerman's production sings, though the gender politics creak.
You can say this for director Mary Zimmerman's staging of Meredith Willson's multiple Tony w…
A binary-busting love story weds a 16th-century romance and the music of the Go-Go's.
When the Go-Go's debuted the irresistibly catchy titular song in 1984, MTV …
In the title role, Will Lidke is a nova of charisma.
It hasn't always been blindingly obvious that Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a riff on Plato's "Symposium." Bu…
The theater company presented readings of three new one-acts by trans playwrights.
You don't have to look further than this year's Tony Awards to see why we nee…
But all we've got is a murky early effort from Tony winner Jez Butterworth.
Playwright Jez Butterworth won the 2019 Best Play Tony Award for The Ferryman, but it…
Firebrand's production can't rise over the limits of the script.
Michael John LaChiusa's musical Queen of the Mist contains a second-act song that critiques its …
