by Colin Thomas | Nov 17, 2024 | Review
Playwright Adam Rapp’s The Sound Inside is an ambitious, literate mystery. For me, it’s about art and reality, loneliness and responsibility. But one of the beauties of the play is that it will be interpreted differently depending on what individual audience members...
by Colin Thomas | Nov 15, 2024 | Review
In The Hobbit, novelist JRR Tolkein creates a textured, credible, and high-stakes fantasy world, but all of that is missing in Kim Selody’s stage adaptation and there’s not much to replace it. Just two actors perform the whole thing. Tim Carlson’s core character — and...
by Colin Thomas | Nov 9, 2024 | Review
There’s nothing there. I’m not talking about Antarctica; I’m talking about Aidan Dooley’s script for his solo show Tom Crean – Discovering Antarctica. It’s not as though the actual history isn’t rich; a lot happened. Tom Crean, an Irish sailor in the English...