by Colin Thomas | Jan 28, 2018 | Review
This production of Annie Baker’s The Aliens is one of the best shows of the season. Go see it. I love virtually everything about it and the tickets only cost seventeen bucks. Baker’s script is exquisite. In it, Jasper and KJ, a couple of slackers, hang out in the...
by Colin Thomas | Jan 27, 2018 | Review
The best fairytales don’t explain themselves or make arguments. They speak the more compelling and flexible language of symbolism. Unfortunately, Sleeping Beauty Dreams reinvents the Sleeping Beauty story as a rational thesis. In Amaranta Leyva’s version of the tale,...
by Colin Thomas | Jan 25, 2018 | Review
Big chunks of this play about African-American despair are boring. Said the white critic. In Suzan-Lori Parks’s Topdog/Underdog, brothers Lincoln and Booth—their father gave them their names as a joke—share a single room. The toilet is down the hall. There is no...
by Colin Thomas | Jan 20, 2018 | Review
Reassembled, Slightly Askew provoked one of the most intense theatrical experiences I’ve had: deeply disorienting, often frightening. Was it worth it? Probably. Written and produced by Shannon Yee, Reassembled, Slightly Askew explores Yee’s experience of acquired...
by Colin Thomas | Jan 19, 2018 | Review
I suspect that, on some level, many liberal Westerners are experiencing a more or less perpetual state of grief and dread. Donald Trump is in the White House. Institutions including the press and democracy itself are being eroded. On the political right wing and on...
