by Colin Thomas | Sep 8, 2018 | Review
“Getting old,” retired detective Jim (Rob Gee) muses, “is a bit like getting mugged.” Jim is losing his mind and it’s coming at a bad time, since he has one final case to investigate: his wife’s suspicious death in a dementia ward....
by Colin Thomas | Sep 7, 2018 | Review
Big Sister is intelligent, relevant, charmingly performed—and a lot less satisfying than you’d expect. Playwright Deborah Vogt explores her relationship with her sister Naomi, who lost 75 pounds as an adult. Naomi performs the solo show, which is written in her voice,...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 7, 2018 | Review
This glorious musical retelling of Orpheus and Eurydice explodes out of the starting gate—and almost self-destructs on its high-octane ambitions. Jasper loves Agnes. Agnes dives off a cliff. Jasper follows her into the underworld. Divine shenanigans ensue. The...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 7, 2018 | Review
In Blackbird, playwright David Harrower invites us to witness a deeply unsettling conversation. The lasttime they met, Una was a 12-year-old child and Ray was a 40-year-old child abuser. After 15 years, Una has shown up at Ray’s office to try to understand how he has...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 7, 2018 | Review
Writer and solo performer Keara Barnes has a warmly engaging stage presence—which counts—but her travel stories barely reach the level of being mildly interesting and there’s almost no sense in the script of growing insight or any other kind of accumulation....
