Latest from Catey Sullivan | For the Sun-Times
The sprawling, multigenerational drama of diaspora and the preservation of cultural tradition unfolds over the clattering trays and hissing burners in the kitchen of the Devon Canteen, a family-owned Sindhi restaurant on a stretch of Devon Avenue known for decades as Little India.
A world-premiere jukebox musical at Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire delivers a disappointingly shallow dose of nostalgia.
In a new remount of Charles Newell’s critically acclaimed 2011 production, Timothy Edward Kane brings blistering rage to this one-man tour de force.
John Hildreth’s stage adaptation takes a far less terrifying and exponentially more campy approach to the H.G. Wells classic.
Playwright Jordan Harrison’s play, running through June 1, hurtles through time and space with a “Black Mirror"-like twist.
Director Trent Stork’s vision for “Cats” has spectacle on overdrive, with a stellar ensemble of quadruple-threat actors/singers/dancers/circus artists.
In director Mikhael Burke’s staging, “At the Wake of a Dead Drag Queen” is a sequin-studded, rose petal-raining ode to joy. The Story Theatre’s 90-minute two-hander feels not only timely but defiantly so.
Directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz, the drama punches deep into the physical and emotional devastation that invariably results when all-consuming anger has no outlet. The production also shows the alchemic power of a tight-knit community determined to protect its own.
The multigenerational drama hurtles by on a razor’s edge between tragedy and comedy, rage and serenity, hope and despair.
“Titanic the Musical” strives to tackle issues of class, immigration and hubris. Moreover, the Marriott cast gives the underwhelming score soaring power.