by Colin Thomas | May 30, 2019 | Review
Playwright Derek Chan speaks a private artistic language. It’s frustrating, but I like the way it sounds. In Chicken Girl, there’s a whole lot of fantasy going on. Chicken Girl dresses in a poultry costume to hand out fliers for Uncle Chan’s fried chicken shack. A...
by Colin Thomas | May 25, 2019 | Review
> > >This is a guest review by David Johnston If you stabbed A Steady Rain in the jugular, it would bleed cigarette smoke and malt whiskey. Seven Tyrants Theatre is closing their season with a week-long remount of last year’s detective thriller duet....
by Colin Thomas | May 24, 2019 | Review
Matilda the Musical survives Daryl Cloran’s direction, even though he makes a good stab at bludgeoning it to death. The material itself is fantastic. Based on Roald Dahl’s 1988 novel, Matilda tells the story of a bright, sensitive little girl — whose parents despise...
by Colin Thomas | May 24, 2019 | Review
Formally innovative, Other Inland Empires also looks like it’s also going to be theatrically and thematically rewarding — at first. Writer and director Julie Hammond presents three characters: she has written herself into the piece as a narrator; her grandmother, who...
by Colin Thomas | May 23, 2019 | Review
Lady Parts is a feminist revue that includes sketch comedy, personal testimony, and a whole lot of political fuck-you-ness. It’s hilarious, it’s necessary, and it’s so welcome. Lady Parts wields transgression like a stick that it’s using to smash the piñata of...
