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...
by Colin Thomas | Nov 10, 2016 | Review
The Who’s Tommy is beyond the abilities of this company. And that’s not a big knock on Renegade Arts; this material is ridiculously difficult. In this stage version of the story, which is based on The Who’s concept album from 1969, Tommy’s dad comes home from WWII, in...
by Colin Thomas | Nov 7, 2016 | Review
In Detroit, Lisa D’Amour has created a kind of comedy of despair. It’s fueled by fierce, often futile, resistance. Ben, who has lost his job in banking, spends his days trying to build a website to sell his services to people who are scrabbling to get out of debt....
