Author: catemarquis

– By Cate Marquis – The Muny decides to wrap up it’s 2026 season with a bit of fun – no, a whole lot of fun – with the crazy meta-musical laugh riot “Something Rotten,” “Something Rotten” is a hysterically funny mad musical about musicals that is set in Elizabethan London, where theater company leader…

(L-R) Sam Harvey as Sky Masterson and Matthew Schatz as Nathan Detroit in Stages’ “Guys and Dolls.” Photo credit: Phillp Hamer Photography. Courtesy of Stages St. Louis – By Cate Marquis – Stages St. Louis’s “Guys and Dolls” goes classic with one of the most tuneful of musicals, as well as one of the most…

– By Cate Marquis – New Jewish Theater’s “Job” is a searing two-person drama set in San Francisco in January of 2020, just as the Covid 19 pandemic was beginning. The title might bring to mind the Biblical figure but it refers to employment, what one does for a living, although there is an element…

(L-R) Nick Rashad Burroughs, Jawan M. Jackson, Elijah Ahmad Lewis, James T. Lane, Daniel Yearwood as the Temptations in the Muny’s AIN’T TOO PROUD. Photo credit: Philip Hamer. Courtesy of the Muny – By Cate Marquis – The Muny’s “Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations” is hit-packed celebration of one of…

(L-R) Jade Cash and Caitlin Mickey in Neil LaBute’s BRUNCH, one of the short plays in the St. Louis Actors’ Studio’s LaBute New Theater Festival. Courtesy of St. Louis Actors’ Studio. – By Cate Marquis – Actors Studio’s annual LaBute New Theater Festival offers six one-act plays including one from playwright Neil LaBute, for whom…

– By Cate Marquis – The Muny’s “Newsies” is an uplifting, hopeful, dancing extravaganza that was inspired by an actual newspaper boys striking in late 19th century New York, a show that mixes drama, humor, hope and heart, with a bit of history. If you love dancing, athletic, exuberant dancing, this is the Muny show…

Maya Drake as Ali and the company of the North American Tour of Alicia Keys’ Hell’s Kitchen. Photo by Marc J Franklin. Courtesy of the Fabulous Fox – By Cate Marquis – Alicia Keys’ “Hell’s Kitchen,” the Tony and Grammy-winning musical by Grammy Award-winner Alicia Keys, made it’s Fabulous Fox Theater debut on January 27….

(l-r) Wendy Renee Greenwood as Holly, Jenelle Gilreath Owens as Pam,and Pamela Reckamp as Cheryl,, in Upstream Theater’s “Myth of the Ostrich.” Photo credit: Patrick Huber. Courtesy of Upstream Theater – By Cate Marquis – Upstream Theater’s “Myth of the Ostrich” is a laugh-out-loud comedy, a smart, fast-paced bit of mayhem with three women, where…

The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis presents “Emma”, December 3 – 21, 2025. Pictured L to R: Company. Photo by Jon Gitchoff. Courtesy of the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis – By Cate Marquis – This year, 2025, was the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth, and the author seems to be everywhere this year….

A scene from A CHRISTMAS STORY: THE MUSICAL. Photo by Gary Emord Netzley. Courtesy of the Fabulous Fox – By Cate Marquis – The delightful “A Christmas Story” musical makes an all-too-brief stop at the Fabulous Fox for one weekend only, Dec. 12-14. This show is wonderful fun for all, based on the perennial favorite…