by Colin Thomas | Oct 27, 2017 | Review
The Lonesome West is about forgiveness—kind of, if you squint. But I do not forgive The Lonesome West. Martin McDonagh’s 1997 script is part of a trilogy that also includes The Beauty Queen of Leenane and A Skull in Connemera. All three are set in Leenane, a...
by Colin Thomas | Oct 26, 2017 | Review
Who gives a toss? In Mike Bartlett’s 2014 script, Queen Elizabeth II has just died and Charles has become King, although his coronation is a few months off. In one of his first acts as monarch, he refuses to give his assent to a bill that would restrict the freedom of...
by Colin Thomas | Oct 25, 2017 | Review
Theatre is community. OPERATING THEATRE Do you know what all of those losers who got into medical school want to do? Musical comedy. The medical school at New York City’s Columbia University has its own theatre and it takes seriously the effect that rehearsing and...
by Colin Thomas | Oct 23, 2017 | Review
I have no doubt that writer and performer Dipti Mehta’s heart is in the right place, but she’s not a great storyteller. In her solo show, Honour: Confessions of a Mumbai Courtesan, Mehta introduces us to Rani, whose mother, Chameli, is a sex worker in Mumbai’s “Fuck...
by Colin Thomas | Oct 23, 2017 | Review
The storytelling in Happy Place could be more focused and compelling, but some of the play’s content pierces to the heart of the current cultural moment and the cast is stellar. In Happy Place, playwright Pamela Mala Sinha takes us to an upscale inpatient treatment...
