by Colin Thomas | Nov 25, 2023 | Review
(Photo by Emily Cooper) Year after year, almost without fail, Theatre Replacement’s East Van Pantos are some of the most innovative, entertaining productions we see all season. Beauty and the Beast is one of the best. Co-writers Jivesh Parasram and Christine Quintana...
by Colin Thomas | Nov 24, 2023 | Review
Just a simple family meal with a frog (Photo by Augusto Meza) I’m grateful to every artist who takes on climate change and there are striking elements in Pippa Mackie’s script. Overall, though, Hurricane Mona is a mostly unfunny comedy and its structure sucks. That...
by Colin Thomas | Nov 23, 2023 | News
Duncan Low and Norman Young both died on Sunday. I wrote a brief memorial piece in this morning’s FRESH SHEET , and I promised to share details about funeral services. Next Thursday, November 30 at 2:00 p.m. Duncan will be buried at the Royal Oak Burial Park....
by Colin Thomas | Nov 17, 2023 | Review
(Photo of Melissa Oei and Tom McBeath by Javier Sotres) There’s a knock on the door. How else could it start? In Henrik Ibsen’s 1879 script A Doll’s House, Nora, the heroine, leaves her suffocating marriage, her husband Torvald, her three young children, and her...
by Colin Thomas | Nov 10, 2023 | Review
Can’t get enough of this guy: Andrew McNee as Buddy (Costume by Christine Reimer, photo by David Cooper) This might sound weird but Andrew McNee is playing Buddy the elf in this production and, when I was watching him, I had a sudden — glorious — flash of his...
