Author: Cate Marquis

– By Cate Marquis – Joe Hanrahan delivers a riveting performance in “St. Nicholas,” playwright Conor McPherson’s dark comedy about a jaded Irish theater critic who follows a beautiful young actress to London and falls in with a group of vampires. The one-man play is having a limited run at the Greenfinch Theater and Dive…

– By Cate Marquis – “The Cottage” is a Noel Coward-esque comedy that is by far the funniest show the Repertory Theater of St. Louis has staged in years, and a delightful way to open the Rep’s 2025-2026 season. Set in the Roaring 1920s and written by Sandy Rustin and directed by Risa Brainin, “The…

(L-R) Gary Glasgow as Ishaq and Chuck Winning as Zeblyan, in NJT’s “Two Jews Walk Into A War…” Courtesy of New Jewish Theatre “Two Jews Walk Into A War…” sounds like the start of a old joke and indeed there is plenty of humor in this bitingly funny play at the New Jewish Theater, but…

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…

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,” 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…

– 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….

– 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…

– 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….

– 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…