by Colin Thomas | May 4, 2018 | Review
Yesterday, I launched a Patreon campaign. It’s all about creating an alternative funding source so that I can keep writing about theatre. The video explains it all. And, when you’ve been thoroughly convinced by the video, here’s where you can join...
by Colin Thomas | May 3, 2018 | Review
I started checking my watch about a half hour in. And time slowed down after that. Supposedly, Neil LaBute’s The Money Shot is a comedy. Set on the Hollywood terrace of an Oscar-winning lesbian actor, LaBute’s script features three movieland airheads and one bitter...
by Colin Thomas | Apr 30, 2018 | Review
I laughed. I cried. I was confused. In her 2009 script, This, playwright Melissa James Gibson introduces us to five witty New Yorkers—well, four New Yorkers and a Frenchman—who are desperately trying to negotiate the disappointments and responsibilities of early...
by Colin Thomas | Apr 27, 2018 | Review
The History of the World (Based on Banalities) is a monologue for a boy about his failed connection with his mother. And that’s ironic because Phil’s Mom Martine, a physicist, was fascinated by the Higgs boson particle, which physics tells us connects everything—and...
by Colin Thomas | Apr 21, 2018 | Review
“Feeling the air up my skirt…That was one of the greatest sensations.” So says John, a cross-dressing straight guy in The Explanation. Watching The Explanation, I got a bit of wind up my skirt, too. By loosening the restrictions on gender expression, The...
