He was a founding member of Brave New Workshop, which for more than half a century continues to be a theater venue for satiric comedy in Minneapolis.

Her novels include: Good Night, Mr. Wodehouse (2015), Gardenias (2005), What a Woman Must Do (2002), The Empress of One (1997), The Cape Ann (1988), Mrs. Demming and The Mythical Beast (1986), Watchdog (1982) and Repent, Lanny Merkel (1981).

Sullivan witnessed and reported the birth of the theater itself, with its innovative design, and the founding tenure of artistic director Tyrone Guthrie.

His focus was off-Broadway, which included for example, his reporting on The Open Theater[8] on the pioneering Cafe Cino, after the death of its founder,[9] on plays by Edward Albee[10] and Lanford Wilson,[11] on a new play that starred Mildred Dunnock,[12] and on a Broadway production of Hello Dolly that starred Martha Raye.

But at the same time, it is so much like a classical painting come to life — of nymphs and satyrs frolicking on the green — that no one in Minneapolis seems to have objected loudly enough to attract the censors.

[15] In Minneapolis in 1961, Sullivan, a journalism professor at the University of Minnesota, joined with Dudley Riggs, a former circus aerialist, and others to create a satirical comedy theater and coffee shop.

As young people, we were living the business life, most of us as journalists, but we also had doubts about it — sketch comedy and satire proved a release for that.

In an article Sullivan quoted the President, who said, "I know this is highly unusual, but I understand Buddy Ebsen has a musical playing out there called Turn to the Right that you wrote a nice review of in the paper.

Reagan mentioned "boondoggles" that were funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, such as one word poems, and performances staged in laundromats.

Sullivan pointed out that there were multi-billion dollar boondoggles in the defense department budget, and the President concurred.

But you can't constantly eat peach ice cream in the theater without getting sick on it.

The playwright was also bothered by the fact that Sullivan was taking notes, for his next-day column in The New York Times.

But I do think it's wise to avoid the gleeful tone of an avenger grinding his enemy, the actor, into the dust…Don't come off as a person whose basic joy is to inflict pain.

You don't need to be loved by theater people, but you want to be respected…When it comes to fraternization, aka sleeping with the enemy, there's no right answer.