by Colin Thomas | Sep 6, 2018 | Review
Unscriptured is very…alright. In it, Travis Bernhardt leads us through an improvised church service. When I was there, we worshipped crying alone, which was a terrific audience suggestion—as was the runner-up, disappointing your mother. Bernhardt structures the improv...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 6, 2018 | Review
Angels & Aliens: pros and cons. In Angels & Aliens, co-writers and performers Sydney Hayduk and Jeff Leard take on the personae of friends and roommates Syd and Jeff who have just had sex for the first time. It was awkward. To distract themselves, they play...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 6, 2018 | Review
For a guy who wants to seduce his audience, Red Bastard (Eric Davis) spends an awful lot of time talking down to them. Davis uses Lie with Me as a soapbox to promote polyamory. The opening and closing sequences are engaging, but there’s long, boring middle. Off the...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 6, 2018 | Review
To be fair, all sorts of people in the audience found this show hilarious. The performance I was at sold out. There was even a guy outside trying to buy a ticket from people who had theirs already. But I don’t get it. Stand-up comic Paco Erhard traffics in cultural...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 6, 2018 | Review
A Brief History of Beer is a (barely) glorified drinking game. Writers/performers Will Glenn and Trish Parry become a pair of time travelers who guide the audience through the history of beer to find out when, exactly, beer became corporatized. Whenever our time...