by Colin Thomas | Jun 1, 2017 | Review
The Arts Club is living off the avails of puppet sex. In the best scene in Hand to God, which is currently playing at the BMO Theatre Centre, two puppets go at it like they’ve just discovered Sesame Street’scopy of the Kama Sutra. And Avenue Q, which the Arts Club...
by Colin Thomas | May 21, 2017 | Review
After watching playwright John Patrick Shanley’s Outside Mullingar, it’s as if you can smell the spring leaves more keenly on your way home from the theatre. You’re more hopeful and awake. And you want to kiss somebody. In the story, we meet 42-year-old Anthony...
by Colin Thomas | May 20, 2017 | Review
Just entering the theatre for the premiere performance of Children of God, you could tell what a monumental opening this was going to be. Corey Payette’s new musical speaks from the heart to one of the most important subjects facing all inhabitants of the territory...
by Colin Thomas | Apr 27, 2017 | Review
The Piano Teacher is honest, smart, moving, and exquisitely performed. Sometimes, when people write about artistic expression, they bullshit. I’m thinking about Stephen Sachs’s play Bakersfield Mist, for instance. In that script, an art expert almost has a literal...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 31, 2017 | Review
Redpatch doesn’t work—at least it doesn’t work for me. I’m a white guy and Redpatch deals with the experience of a Métis soldier during WWI, so some might feel inclined to dismiss my criticism. But the company invited me to review the show, so here goes. Raes Calvert...
