by Colin Thomas | Oct 24, 2019 | Review
Taking in Frankenstein: Lost in Darkness is very much like sitting around a fire on a winter evening and listening to a storyteller who is very good — if a little long-winded. Peter Church has adapted Mary Shelley’s novel as a staged radio play and it’s full of foley...
by Colin Thomas | Oct 19, 2019 | Review
Oh man, why do such poorly written plays get produced? Yes, Marjorie Chan’s China Doll is admirably feminist and admirably inclusive of underrepresented experience, but it’s also boring. Chan starts her story in Shanghai in 1904, when her central character, Su-Ling,...
by Colin Thomas | Oct 18, 2019 | Review
I’ve been so bored in the theatre so often lately that I’ve been starting to wonder if I’m dead inside. That’s why I’m feeling so high right now: Take d Milk, Nah? kept me consistently stimulated and engaged. From the get-go, solo performer Jivesh Parasram is...
by Colin Thomas | Oct 17, 2019 | Review
Equivocation isn’t much fun, but it’s all I’ve got. There are strengths in the performances in this Arts Club production of Martyna Majok’s Cost of Living. And the Pulitzer Prize-winning script is compassionate and sometimes lyrical. But there are also times when the...
by Colin Thomas | Oct 13, 2019 | Review
The venue doesn’t work. The style doesn’t work. And the wig they’ve given Katey Wright is horrible. But it’s not all bad news. Raincity Theatre, which scored a smashing success with is site-specific production of Sweeney Todd last season is back with a...
