by Colin Thomas | Jul 29, 2018 | Review
A crime thriller, Dark Road feels much more suited to television than the stage. And, if it were on television, I’d turn it off. (The production is strong, but that’s not my point.) In Dark Road, Isobel McArthur, the first female Chief Constable in Scotland, is about...
by Colin Thomas | Jul 28, 2018 | Review
It’s a nasty play well performed. In Martin McDonagh’s The Beauty Queen of Leenane, it’s the early 90s and Maureen is caring for her mother Mag in the claustrophobic Irish village of the title. The two women hate each other. Forty-year-old Maureen is a virgin who has...
by Colin Thomas | Jul 23, 2018 | Review
In This, Here, the central character struggles with the alienation and egotism of making a living from your feelings, which is one of the downsides of being an artist Alison, who is an actor, has lost her joy in performing. And her partner Maddie is just about...
by Colin Thomas | Jul 21, 2018 | Review
Oh What a Beautiful Morning! feels like the most sophisticated Powerpoint presentation the world has ever known, but it still feels like a Powerpoint presentation. My point is that it’s illustrative. Created and presented by Fight With a Stick, Oh What a Beautiful...
by Colin Thomas | Jul 20, 2018 | Review
It’s perfect. I’ve never seen a more seamlessly well-produced show at Theatre Under the Stars. The musical itself isn’t the greatest, although it’s friendly and serviceable. Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II wrote Cinderella for television in 1957—when it...
