by Colin Thomas | Jan 19, 2018 | Review
I suspect that, on some level, many liberal Westerners are experiencing a more or less perpetual state of grief and dread. Donald Trump is in the White House. Institutions including the press and democracy itself are being eroded. On the political right wing and on...
by Colin Thomas | Jan 17, 2018 | Review
It gets better. And I don’t mean that in the Dan Savage your-miserable-queer-adolescence-can-turn-into-a-happy-queer-adulthood sense. I mean Black Boys starts haltingly but hits a solid and satisfying groove. In Black Boys, three men explore what it means to them to...
by Colin Thomas | Jan 14, 2018 | Review
Above the Hospital is kind of like a rummage sale: there are treasures on offer, but you’ve got to sift through some junk to get to them. This new script, which was written and directed by Beau Han Bridge, is about the confusion and despondency some millennials seem...
by Colin Thomas | Jan 11, 2018 | Review
Hot Brown Honey is a spectacularly well designed feminist pep rally. Over a span of 75 minutes, six Australian women of colour take on sexism, racism, and colonialism one vaudevillian act at a time. Tristan Shelly’s set is phenomenal. It’s shaped like a beehive with...
by Colin Thomas | Dec 23, 2017 | Review
During the holiday season, adults are eager to take the kids in their lives to the theatre. That lovely human impulse should be rewarded with first-rate art. Unfortunately, Carousel Theatre for Young People’s production of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is only...
