by Colin Thomas | Oct 20, 2016 | Review
I’m finding it impossible not to damn Mamahood with faint praise. There’s nothing really wrong with this show, but there’s nothing arrestingly right about it either. In her solo work, Mamahood: turn and face the strange, writer and performer Nicolle Nattrass tells us...
by Colin Thomas | Oct 19, 2016 | Review
Leave a Comment They were manipulating the hell out of me and I loved itIn Fight Night, which is produced by a bunch of companies led by Belgium’s Ontroerend Goed, politics becomes a literal game. Five actors vie for audience members’ votes and everybody in the crowd...
by Colin Thomas | Oct 17, 2016 | Review
Watching Walt Whitman’s Secret is a bit like eating paper—but the paper is often tasty. In Sean O’Leary’s script, which he based on Vancouver author George Fetherling’s novel, the celebrated nineteenth-century American poet Walt Whitman is nearing the end of his life....
by Colin Thomas | Oct 17, 2016 | Review
Leave a Comment Yesterday, I saw the last performance in Studio 58’s run of Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches. Because the show is over, this isn’t really a review; it’s more of a shout out to some outstanding talent. Let’s not forget what a work of...
by Colin Thomas | Oct 17, 2016 | Review
Leave a Comment If you’re planning to attend King of the Yees, I suggest you arrive at intermission: in terms of the story, the first act is almost entirely irrelevant. In this new script, playwright Lauren Yee offers a playful, heartfelt—and metatheatrical—take on...
