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...
by Colin Thomas | Oct 12, 2016 | Review
A loud yes and a quieter no. In 2012, London’s Globe Theatre commissioned The Company Theatre of Mumbai to produce a desi (Indian or South Asian) version of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Piya Behrupiya, which translates as “Lover Impersonator”, is the raucously...
