by Colin Thomas | Sep 8, 2025 | Review
You know how, when you go swimming, your body remembers the water for a long time? After I watched the tap-dance show Neo Soul Ties, my body kept thrumming with rhythmic excitement. Neo Soul Ties is exhilarating! And, choreographed by Toronto artist Victoria Miller,...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 8, 2025 | Review
In her monologue, Patricia van der Meer reveals that, when she was five or six, she believed she was the second coming of Jesus Christ. Then she got a pair of red Buster Brown shoes and loved them so much she realized she was vain — not holy. That’s about it. There’s...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 8, 2025 | Review
The two sections of Plan V are so distinct they might as well be different scripts. The shorter one works. In the longer, opening section of her solo show, Eleanor O’Brien takes on the persona of Mama V, a pink-track-suited proselytizer in the revolutionary Pussy...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 8, 2025 | Review
Peak experience. Really. Tymisha Harris’s A Cabaret of Legends had me in tears. Harris’s voice is so rich and pitch-perfect, it feels surreal sometimes that she’s singing live. A celebration of Black female singers, A Cabaret of Legends overflows with substance....
by Colin Thomas | Sep 7, 2025 | Review
You preach, brother! The premise of Jean-Daniel Ó Donncada’s solo show is that we’re attending a meeting of the St. Steven’s Youth Group. It’s led by Ó Donncada, a real-life Presbyterian minister, who’s also very smart and very funny. At one point, Ó Donncada shows a...
