by Colin Thomas | May 21, 2021 | Review
Politically, Christine Quintana’s new audio play Someone Like You is busy: it takes on fat phobia, racism, misogyny, and the capitalist commodification of human longing. That’s a worthy line-up of targets. Too worthy, as it turns out. Thematically, Someone Like You...
by Colin Thomas | May 15, 2021 | Review
There’s a lot going on here — and a good deal of it is engaging. Playwright Derek Chan’s yellow objects is about Hong Kong’s democracy movement, which was crushed in 2020 — although its spirit lives on. Artistically, yellow objects is adventuresome. Ten audience...
by Colin Thomas | May 8, 2021 | Review
Theatre for grown-ups. I’m grateful. This version of The Boy in the Moon is playwright Emil Sher’s adaptation of Ian Brown’s memoir about raising Walker, his severely disabled son, with his wife Johanna Schneller. It’s tough. Describing Walker at birth, the character...
