by Colin Thomas | Oct 31, 2014 | Review
They’re really different and they’re both really good: Saint Joan at the Stanley and Hunter Gatherers at the Havana. Saint Joan is a great big show loaded with serious talent and serious ideas (George Bernard Shaw-size ideas). I’ve been getting flak...
by Colin Thomas | Oct 17, 2014 | Review
The best shows running this weekend are both American classics: The Rainmaker and Our Town. The Rainmaker’s script is odd: naive and sophisticated at once. It’s the poetry that makes that combo work—that and Pacific Theatre’s elegant, warmhearted...
by Colin Thomas | Oct 10, 2014 | Review
This weekend, the Cultch has the two best shows in town: Ronnie Burkett’s The Daisy Theatre and Deanna Fleysher’s Butt Kapinski. Butt Kapinski is a participatory clown show. Don’t be a wuss. Show up and play. You’ll feel liberated. Fleysher...
by Colin Thomas | Oct 3, 2014 | Review
When I’m working as an editor, one of the mistakes I see most often is the misuse of to lie and to lay. I’m a substantive editor in the publishing world and a story editor (same thing) in the movie world. I help writers to build and shape their...
by Colin Thomas | Oct 1, 2014 | Review
You know how laughter sometimes just keeps spooling out of you, like it’s this great, long silken rope and you can’t believe how much of it there is? Like you just sit there helplessly and shake while it keeps unraveling? Kids laugh like that all the time....
