by Colin Thomas | Feb 3, 2024 | Review
The music is sublime. Sublime. But, especially as it’s presented in this production, the script is not. When Choir Boy started, with Andrew Broderick, who plays the central character, Pharus, singing a cappella, and then, when he was joined, in perfect harmony, by...
by Colin Thomas | Jan 26, 2024 | Review
I have a very strong hunch that, if any other person who was in the audience with me last night had the opportunity to review The Mirror, they’d be giving it a more enthusiastic write-up than I’m about to. When they were all on their feet, clapping wildly, I was in my...
by Colin Thomas | Jan 24, 2024 | Review
This might sound hokey, but watching Gertrude and Alice made my insides feel like spring: I was filled with surprise and freshness. This script was created by a trio of playwrights: Anna Chatterton, Evalyn Parry, and Karin Randoja. In it, writer Stein and her life...
by Colin Thomas | Jan 24, 2024 | Review
It’s always interesting when you’re won over by a show — completely won over — even after you’ve gotten off on the wrong foot. The first movement of British artist Ben Target’s monologue Lorenzo didn’t engage me. Target’s career has mostly been in stand-up and, as he...
by Colin Thomas | Dec 17, 2023 | Review
Maybe I caught a particularly rough performance of Carousel Theatre’s Snow White. At the Saturday matinee I attended, the audience was small and there were a lot of adults, which could partly explain why the show didn’t come close to generating the kind of runaway...