by Colin Thomas | Nov 25, 2016 | Review
If you need a holiday in innocence, check out The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. The musical features three eccentric adults, but it’s the vulnerability of its six quirky kid characters that makes the piece so charming. As they compete against one another in...
by Colin Thomas | Nov 21, 2016 | Review
It’s immersive. There are so many compelling textures in Touchstone Theatre’s production of Brothel #9 that, watching it, you feel like you’re somewhere else. In Toronto playwright Anusree Roy’s script, a young woman named Rekha arrives in a rundown building in...
by Colin Thomas | Nov 20, 2016 | Review
Playwright Katey Hoffman continues to be one of the most exciting new voices on the local theatre scene: not everything about Green Lake works, but a lot of it does and the script is as original as all hell. With Cheyenne Mabberley, Hoffman wrote The After After...
by Colin Thomas | Nov 20, 2016 | Review
Playwright Katey Hoffman continues to be one of the most exciting new voices on the local theatre scene: not everything about Green Lake works, but a lot of it does and the script is as original as all hell. With Cheyenne Mabberley, Hoffman wrote The After After...
by Colin Thomas | Nov 19, 2016 | Review
Last night, Vice President-elect Mike Pence was met with boos and cheers when he attended a performance of the musical Hamilton on Broadway. After the performance, Brandon Victor Dixon, who plays Aaron Burr in the show, read a statement from the company that began,...