by Colin Thomas | Oct 25, 2018 | Review
It takes too long for the plot to hit the fan. Playwright Lynn Nottage has set Sweat in a working-class bar in Reading, Pennsylvania. A local steel-manufacturing plant defines the lives of everybody associated with the place. The central trio of women—Cynthia, Tracey,...
by Colin Thomas | Oct 21, 2018 | Review
This is a guest review by David Johnston * It begins by throwing the audience to the wolves. We are thrust unceremoniously into a gaggle of chattering teenage girls in identical soccer jerseys. They’re stretching for a match, but that’s only discernable...
by Colin Thomas | Oct 19, 2018 | Review
This is a guest review by David Johnston * Kill Me Now is a play that’s smart enough to pretend to be the boring version of itself for awhile. That’s a rather complicated compliment, so let’s break it down. We open with single father Jake Sturdy (Bob...
by Colin Thomas | Oct 13, 2018 | Review
Watching this production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, I felt ridiculously lucky. The show is so strong and its storefront location in Gastown so intimate that I felt like a cast of stars had shown up in my living room to perform a masterpiece....
by Colin Thomas | Oct 12, 2018 | Review
You’d think that a play about the last days of the human race might have some kind of tension, some kind of stakes, but nope, not this one. In A Brief History of Human Extinction, which was created by Jordan Hall and Mind of a Snail (Jessica Gabriel and Chloé Ziner),...
