288 stories by "Catey Sullivan"
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John Ross Bowie's 90-minute drama purports to be about the creation of the Ramones' album End of the Century, but it's actually about a quarte…
"Rent" isn't edgy or groundbreaking anymore, but it remains powerful and true to the original in all the right ways.
Playwright Lucy Kirkwood's devastated world is nightmarishly familiar.
It's comforting to regard the premise of Lucy Kirkwood's eco-thriller with a smug sense of…
At times, it seems director John Doyle is aiming for magical realism. But even magical realism needs to be grounded in a compelling narrative.
Drury Lane Theatre's staging, directed with a keen eye for the monstrous (and the monstrously funny) by Mitch Sebastian, lives up to Dahl's book.
Set in 1961, the TimeLine Theatre production looks at the economics of revolution and the steep price it exacts from those who could least afford it.
Barbara Gaines' production of the Shakespeare classic succeeds as a thriller, a tragedy and a doomed coming-of-age story.
Until then, it relies too heavily on stale old jokes.
Second City e.t.c.'s 43rd revue begins with the cast paddling through the audience in a faux water ballet. …
The show's book writer Chris D'Arienzo clearly understands that as Journey is to Mozart sonatas, so is "ROA" dialogue to Shakespearean sonnets.
The major selling point for "Footloose" is leading lady (and Northwestern University grad) Lucy Godinez as Ariel, the preacher's daughter.
It's a reminder that while art can be silenced, it can never be extinguished.
Near the end of the first act of Lauren Yee's Cambodian Rock Band, the cast deliver…
And not just because the main character's nose grows when he tells a lie.
With their adaptation of Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio, Joseph Steakley and Ben Lobpries ha…
Money, mystery and music are all vehicles Holter uses to get to the heart of "Lottery Day." That heart is a damning commentary on gentrification.
Director Wardell Julius Clark has assembled a cast who delivers first-rate performances emblematic of the smart, uncompromising production.
This show based on earlier incarnations of "Cruel Intentions" should, to quote the poets of pop whose music it fails to do justice, go "Bye Bye Bye."
If the days wherein you could stage a play about race without a single person of color on stage aren't entirely over, they should be.
Caryl Churchill's play is science fiction, but every day, the "fiction" part of that seems to be fading just a little bit more.
The show has as much to do with the Romanovs as Caesar salad has to do with Julius Caesar. That's precisely what you'd expect in family-friendly fare.
She ignores that some people don't have the luxury of civility.
About midway through Julie Ganey's one-woman show, the author-star describes trying to make her T…
"Am I the only Latinx sharing stories right now? Where are the rest of us?"
After the rush of winning the 2013 Moth GrandSlam storytelling competition faded, Li…
Dutch Masters and The Undeniable Sound of Right Now ask how much has really changed in politics and music.
Jackalope and Raven Theatres are firing up the waybac…
Set in Pennsylvania, and alternating between 2000 and 2008, Ron OJ Parson's staging of "Sweat" is as familiar as a decade's worth of headlines.
Running March 14 " 16, Femme Fest spotlights the creations of five female choreographers of Black/African or Diaspora/African descent.
This Abbey Theatre import is unexpectedly wonderful.
So, two Irish actors walk into a bar. As does the entire audience.…
The onstage chemistry of the cast adds palpable depth to a first-rate production at Theo Ubique.
