In the Company of Men Review: A Good Play About Some Truly Bad Guys By Catey Sullivan Neil LaBute's tale of mind games probes the sociopathic side of the male psyche. Read more
How Mary Zimmerman Handled Kipling's Racism and Misogyny in a New The Jungle Book Musical By Catey Sullivan The adapter extraordinaire dives into the controversial aspects of the story she's staging at the Goodman Theatre. Read more
Henry VIII Review: Style Over Substance in One of Shakespeare's Worst Plays By Catey Sullivan Barbara Gaines does her best with Henry VIII at the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. Read more
The Best Musicals on Chicago Stages in May By Catey Sullivan ‘The Book of Mormon,’ ‘Pal Joey,’ ‘Oliver!,’ and more Read more
Here Are 33 Great Picks for Chicago Theatre This May By Catey Sullivan By the Way, Meet Vera Stark; The Misanthrope; The Glass Menagerie; and more Read more
How Renée Fleming and Anthony Freud Convinced The Lyric To Stage 'Oklahoma!' By Kevin Nance Can this 1943 musical—and a schedule packed with more Rogers and Hammerstein classics—convince a young audience to come see an opera next? Read more
This Artist Chopped Meat in Her Underwear By Tomi Obaro Meet the Burlesque Butcher, one of 50 performers in a dozen events at the ongoing Chicago Home Theater series. Read more
'Kinky Boots' and 'Virginia Woolf' Score Tons of Tony Award Nominations By Emmet Sullivan Here are the interviews with Tracy Letts and Cyndi Lauper, two artists behind Tony-nominated shows with roots in Chicago theatres. Read more
Here's a Great Kids' Play You Can Actually Enjoy By Gina Bazer The Chicago Children’s Theatre and Redmoon's production of The Elephant and the Whale is a refreshingly good show for kids. Read more
‘The Whale’ Review: A Huge Story of Disgust and Compassion By Catey Sullivan Samuel D. Hunter’s play, directed by Joanie Schultz, is an unflinching look at behavior taken to an extreme. Read more
