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...
by Colin Thomas | Aug 11, 2018 | Review
The musical Guys and Dolls is immortal, which means that it will survive this production. Based on stories by Damon Runyon, Guys and Dolls is set in New York in the ‘30s in the underworld of gambling. Nathan Detroit, who runs a floating crap game, bets high-roller Sky...
by Colin Thomas | Aug 3, 2018 | Review
Hey. I’m looking for emerging critics who would be interested in helping me to cover the Vancouver Fringe Festival. If you’re interested in this gig—which will involve a little money, although not tons—please submit a sample review of between 200 and 600 words...
