by Colin Thomas | Feb 18, 2024 | Review
I love this show, everything about it. And I strongly encourage you to see it. For CHILD-ish, Toronto playwright Sunny Drake interviewed 41 kids over a period of years. He also invited the kids to interview one another. And they interviewed him. The result is an...
by Colin Thomas | Feb 16, 2024 | Review
It’s fun. It’s moving sometimes. There something essentially theatrical about it. And I suspect we’re in particular need of it right now. Every Brilliant Thing is a one-actor show that was developed by playwright Duncan Macmillan and stand-up comedian...
by Colin Thomas | Feb 15, 2024 | Review
By the end of Juliet, A Revenge Comedy, I was completely into it. In the script, which was written by Ryan Gladstone and Pippa Mackie, Juliet from Romeo and Juliet finds herself in a kind of Shakespearean Groundhog Day: she keeps falling in love, losing her...
by Colin Thomas | Feb 4, 2024 | Review
(Photo of Simon Laherty, Sarah Mainwaring and Scott Price by Tristram Kenton for The Guardian) For about the first 20 minutes of The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes, I was enjoying the uniqueness of the experience. By the end of the show’s 60-minute running time,...
by Colin Thomas | Feb 3, 2024 | Review
The music is sublime. Sublime. But, especially as it’s presented in this production, the script is not. When Choir Boy started, with Andrew Broderick, who plays the central character, Pharus, singing a cappella, and then, when he was joined, in perfect harmony, by...