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,...
by Colin Thomas | Nov 18, 2016 | Review
There should be laws—similar to child labour laws—that prevent the overworking of metaphors. Playwright Peter Dickinson buries the heart of his play, Long Division, beneath a series of monologues that declare and develop the metaphor of mathematics so academically...