Author: Cate Marquis

– By Cate Marquis – The Muny’s “Shrek: The Musical” is sure to delight kiddos and fans alike, with a fun and cute musical version of the favorite animated movie. While all the Muny shows are family-friendly, this is the one most aimed at the younger audience, and sure to please them. Although rainy weather…

– By Cate Marquis – Albion Theater’s “The Wasp” is a two-hander blends drama and dark humor in an exploration of the linger after-effects of bullying, revenge and a blurring of lines between victim and victimizer. The Albion’s production is the St. Louis premier of this gripping, high-octane drama, which debuted in London in 2015,…

– By Cate Marquis – Bucking the trend of musicals and light comedy that summer seems to bring, New Jewish Theater’s “God of Carnage” offers drama and darker humor as two sets of parents meet to discuss an incident of schoolyard violence between two boys. What starts out as a cool-headed and reasonable discussion between…

– By Cate Marquis – Stray Dog Theater’s “3 Sheets to the Wind” is a breathless farce-like comedy about Oliver Morton (Joseph Garner), a gay man in a New York City rent-controlled three-bedroom apartment who has run into financial troubles. An ex-lover in California, Aaron Addison (Jeffrey M. Wright) makes an offer to pay all…

– 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…