by Colin Thomas | Dec 17, 2017 | Review
Nobody likes to rain on a parade—especially not a Christmas parade—but the Gateway Theatre’s production of A Christmas Carol is so vacant that I have no choice. As Trump’s Republicans ruthlessly exploit the poor to increase their personal wealth, the relevance of...
by Colin Thomas | Dec 15, 2017 | Review
I saw Onegin again last night and, not to put too fine a point on it, it was like falling back into the arms of a favourite lover. Go see it. It’s the best show in town—by a snowy, Slavic country mile. In Onegin, which is a sung-through musical, Veda Hille and Amiel...
by Colin Thomas | Dec 14, 2017 | Review
You want a big show like Disney’s Beauty and the Beast to be lavish and dazzling but, in crucial ways, the Arts Club’s production is stingy and incomplete. Fortunately, there are also some excellent performances in the mix and the story itself is strong. In Beauty and...
by Colin Thomas | Dec 9, 2017 | Review
In The Realistic Joneses, playwright Will Eno behaves like a compassionate—and funny—palliative care nurse. In the play, Pony and John Jones have just moved in next door to Jennifer and Bob Jones. Now they all live in the same small town. Bob has a degenerative...
by Colin Thomas | Dec 7, 2017 | Review
Puppeteer Ronnie Burkett is a genius. He just is. Another blunt truth: Little Dickens isn’t his best show—at least it isn’t yet. As the full title makes clear, Little Dickens: The Daisy Theatre Presents A Christmas Carol is yet another riff on Charles Dickens’s...
