by Colin Thomas | Apr 22, 2015 | Review
When I attended Theatre Conspiracy’s Foreign Radical, my fellow audience members voted—virtually unanimously—to select me as the most suspicious person there. Maybe that was because I’m big and 30 years older than the rest of them, so I stood out, or maybe...
by Colin Thomas | Apr 20, 2015 | Review
When I’m not working as a theatre critic, I’m a substantive editor, which means “story editor”. I help writers with narrative structure, so I deal a lot with plot, but also elements such as the development of characters and themes. Normally,...
by Colin Thomas | Apr 17, 2015 | Review
In the land of theatre, the pick is easy this week. And, as a bonus, I’ve got a couple of movies for you. Hiro Kanagawa’s Indian Arm just runs for two more nights (until April 18) at Studio 16. Get in if you can. Kanagawa’s adaptation of Henrik...
by Colin Thomas | Apr 10, 2015 | Review
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, which is fun, is still on at the Stanley—and it just might be the best thing you can get tickets to. A slick touring production of The Book of Mormon is at the QE. That’s fun, too, but the only way you’re going to get...
by Colin Thomas | Apr 3, 2015 | Review
I’m going to keep it short and sweet this week, folks: I’ve got two shows to recommend. At the Cultch, you have two more nights to catch Tawiah M’carthy’s Obaaberima, which is about a queer Ghanian-Canadian guy embracing the supposedly...
