by Colin Thomas | Sep 25, 2020 | Review
Last night’s Opening Night Bash at the Transform Cabaret Festival was … transformative for me. Moreso than last year’s. I don’t think that’s because this year’s edition was artistically “better”, whatever that means; I think it’s because the overwhelming...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 22, 2020 | Review
Incidental Moments of the Day is complex, engaging, and so potentially inflammatory that I want to warn you before you watch it. Between 2010 and 2013, playwright Richard Nelson wrote four plays about the Apple family of Rhinebeck,...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 13, 2020 | Review
There’s a lot of foreplay in this show and no orgasm. In Art Heist, playwrights TJ Dawe and Ming Hudson offer an experience in which audiences of up to 10 people sleuth around Granville Island trying to figure out who pulled off a half-billion-dollar theft from...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 12, 2020 | Review
This is the first time I’ve attended a live performance since the beginning of the plague, so I’m going to start off by talking about that. Going in, I was mildly freaked out; I’m 68 and I’m taking immunosuppressant drugs. Because I’m vulnerable, I wore a mask and a...