Author: Cate Marquis
HEIDI CHRONICLES at New Jewish Theater Review
Emily Baker as Heidi in the New Jewish Theater’s production of THE HEIDI CHRONICLES, on stage at the St. Louis Jewish Community Center’s Performing Arts Building through June 15, 2025. Photo Credit: Jon Gitchoff. Courtesy of the New Jewish Theater – By Cate Marquis – The New Jewish Theater’s current production is a splendid version…
& JULIET Musical at Fox Theater Review
The Broadway hit musical comedy “& Juliet,” now on stage at the Fabulous Fox Theater, takes a different look at the Shakespearean love story universally synonymous with romance. Throughout the ages, romantics everywhere have swooned over the Bard’s “Romeo and Juliet” and quoted its lines. Of course, there is a problem for all those romantics:…
RADIO GOLF at Black Rep Theater Review
“Radio Golf,” the Black Rep’s final production of the 2024-2025 Season, is a splendid one, the kind of production many of us long to see on St. Louis stages, a meaningful drama, full of wonderful dialog and gripping performances. “Radio Golf” is the last in playwright August Wilson’s 10-play Century Cycle, with each play set…
MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET CHRISTMAS at Rep Theater Review
– By Cate Marquis – The Repertory Theater of St. Louis celebrates the holiday season with “Million Dollar Quartet Christmas,” on stage at the Loretto Hilton Theater in Webster Groves now through Dec. 22. Actually, this production is a collaboration between the Rep and Stage St. Louis, the venerablebeloved musical theater company in nearby Kirkwood….
OLD TIMES by Midnight Company Theater Review
– By Cate Marquis – The Midnight Company’s production of Harold Pinter’s drama “Old Times” centers on a married couple welcoming the long-ago best friend of the wife, someone she has not seen in twenty years, into their home. The expectation is that the women will reminiscence about old times in London and the old…
MJ The Michael Jackson Musical at Fox Theater Review
– By Cate Marquis – Among the spate of musicals about musicians that combine biography with a jukebox performances of their hits songs, some are standouts. “MJ,” the musical about Michael Jackson, is one of those, and among that top tier, a must-see even if one is not particularly a fan of Michael Jackson’s music….
MOULIN ROUGE Musical at Fox Theater Review
– By Cate Marquis – Baz Luhrman’s wild, crazy movie musical MOULIN ROUGE was a big screen explosion of color, dazzle and pop-music favorites, in what was dubbed a jukebox musical. The romantic fantasy movie was highly theatrical as well as cinematic, and when it finally was adapted into a Broadway musical, it was a…
THE BOOK OF MORMON Musical at Fox Theater Review
– By Cate Marquis – The hilarious musical “The Book of Mormon” returns to the Fox with all the rude, irreverent, laugh-out-loud satiric humor you would expect from the guys who brought us “South Park,” Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Joined by Robert Lopez, one of the creators of the equally irreverent musical “Avenue Q,”…
AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY at Rep Theater Review
– By Cate Marquis – The Repertory Theater of St. Louis finishes it’s 2023-2024 season on an exceptionally strong note, with the excellent drama “August: Osage County.” Despite a rocky post-pandemic situation that had threatened the season or more, this strength of this last production of the current season gives one hope. It is a…
MOBY DICK at Rep Theater Review
– By Cate Marquis – Herman Melville’s classic epic of the sea and obsession, in search of the great white whale, seems like something too difficult to adapt for the stage. But that assumption is proven wrong with “Moby Dick,” now on stage at the Repertory Theater of St. Louis. The Rep’s dramatic, acrobatic stage…