by Colin Thomas | Mar 25, 2024 | Review
There is so much to love in this production — and it left me strangely unmoved. The 1998 musical Parade is based on the real-life story of Leo Frank, the Jewish supervisor of a pencil-making factory in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1913, he was accused of murdering Mary...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 23, 2024 | Review
Young playwrights often need — and deserve — more help than they get. In playwright Lee Nisar’s Dil Ka, a 26-year-old Pakistani-Canadian woman named Zahra is preparing biryani for a proposal meeting, which means that she’s about to feed a potential groom and his...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 13, 2024 | Review
For me, sitting through this mounting of Mike Bartlett’s An Intervention was an endurance test. I started checking my watch half an hour into its 80-minute running time, and my chair got very hard. My primary beef is with the script, but I also suspect the direction...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 8, 2024 | Review
Playwright and performer Jasmine Chen’s Jade Circle is a delicate, stylish, sometimes resonant piece of work that could use more concrete storytelling. Jade Circle is about reclaiming the language of one’s origin. In Chen’s autobiographical script, she shares the...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 3, 2024 | Review
Writing about Sunrise Betties is depressing, not because of the content, which includes drug dealing, police corruption, and a ridiculous amount of gore — but because it’s all such a mindless waste of time. In Cheyenne Rouleau’s new script, which is set in the...
