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Catey Sullivan

Berwyn, Chicago
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I have spent the past 35 years writing for many publications about theater and municipal politics. On occasion, they converge.
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Suffragist city - Chicago Reader

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By Catey Sullivan
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Deep into the first act of Shaina Taub’s remarkable musical Suffs, there’s a moment of lighting design that elicited a unison gasp from the audience opening night. It’s impossible to provide any more context for the scene without spoilers. Suffice to say, the world goes from gleaming sapphire to bloodbath crimson in the space of a single breath. It feels way too familiar. There’s devastation, disbelief, and fear as the spectrum shifts.
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An unfrozen caveman, a Broadway star, Eugene O’Neill, and Frankenstein come together in Iceboy!

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By Catey Sullivan
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The world premiere of Iceboy! Or, the Completely Untrue Story of How Eugene O’Neill Came to Write The Iceman Cometh arrives at the Goodman Theatre with deep Chicago roots and on a surging tide of buzzy anticipation. Tony-winning composer Mark Hollmann (Urinetown: The Musical) and stars Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman spent their early careers in Chicago before gaining national attention.
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A Little Night Music lacks magic at Marriott

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By Catey Sullivan
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Like all of Stephen Sondheim’s musicals, 1973’s A Little Night Music (based on Ingmar Bergman’s 1955 film, Smiles of a Summer Night) lives and dies on the strength of its verbiage. Sondheim’s furiously fast-flying lyrics and Hugh Wheeler’s book are utterly crucial in depicting the panoply of layered, fascinating characters and the tangled, beautiful tale they weave. Alas, great swathes of that tale’s words are lost in Marriott Theatre’s somewhat serviceable production of the musical.
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