Year: 2026

– By Cate Marquis – The Tony and Grammy-winning Broadway hit “Hadestown” storms into the Fabulous Fox Theater for a short run, May 29-31. The musical combines two Greek myths, of Orpheus and Eurydice and of Hades and Persephone, with a blues music score for tale of two sets of lovers, human and god, on…

– By Cate Marquis – The recent biographical film about Michael Jackson has brought the performer’s name back into the media but before that film, there was Lynn Nottage’s excellent Broadway musical about Michael Jackson, “MJ the Musical.” While the film has stirred controversy by perhaps creating a more edited version of the star and…

(L-R) Blake Segal and Major Attaway in the North American Tour of SPAMALOT. Photo by Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman. Courtesy of the Fabulous Fox Theater – By Cate Marquis – The Broadway tour of “Monty Python’s Spamalot” returns to the Fabulous Fox Theater May 5-17, 2026. Based on the comedy classic of silliness about…

– By Cate Marquis – New Jewish Theater’s “A Prayer for the French Republic” is a wide-ranging, even epic family drama, spiked with moments of humor, about an extended French Jewish family who have been in France for a thousand years and operated a Parisian piano store for generations, dating back to the mid-19th century….

Jane Paradise as Sun, with cast as the planets, in Upstream Theater’s “The End of the World Cabaret.” Photo credit: Patrick Huber. Courtesy of Upstream Theater – By Cate Marquis – Upstream Theater’s “The End of the World Cabaret” is a thought-provoking satire that mixes science fiction and a sense of the magical with humor,…

(L-R): David Wilson (Adam), Kaitlin Feely (Barbara), Leianna Weaver (Lydia) and Ryan Stajmiger (Beetlejuice). Photo by Matthew Murphy, 2026. Courtesy of the Fabulous Fox Theater – By Cate Marquis – The Broadway tour of “Beetlejuice” returns to the Fabulous Fox Theater for a short run, Apr. 24-26. The musical is based on the hit movie…

– By Cate Marquis – Stray Dog Theatre’s “9 to 5” is a crowd-pleasing musical comedy that returns to 1979 to join three ambitious business women as they cope with their sexist boss and strive to break that glass ceiling to reach success – or at least decent workplace treatment. It is a comedy about…

– By Cate Marquis – The Repertory Theater of St. Louis closes out an outstanding 2025-2026 season with a high-energy, crowd-pleasing musical production. “Ring of Fire” is neither a musical nor a concert nor a biography, but a show that straddles all three of those descriptions. The show begins with an older Johnny Cash, in…

The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis presents “The Enigmatist”, March 7 – April 5, 2026 Pictured L to R: David Kwong. Photo credit: Jon Gitchoff. Courtesy of the Repertory Theater of St. Louis – By Cate Marquis – The Repertory Theater of St. Louis’s newest offering in their black box style Studio theater space, is…

(L-R) Tawaine Noah as 106, Stephanie Merritt as Servant, and Ronmal Mottley as 105, singing “The Cigarette Song,” in New Line Theatre’s PROMENADE, 2026. Photo credit: Jill Ritter Lindberg. Courtesy of New Line Theater – By Cate Marquis – New Line Theater bills itself as the “bad boy” of musical theater, and that is hilariously…