by Colin Thomas | Jul 20, 2016 | Review
Leave a Comment For months, the frank theatre company and SFU have been planning a queer theatre conference called Q2Q: A Symposium on Queer Theatre and Performance in Canada. Check out the line-up. It’s phenomenal. The conference, which runs at SFU Woodwards’...
by Colin Thomas | Jul 15, 2016 | Review
Leave a Comment The question I get asked most at this time of year is, “What should I see at Bard on the Beach”? Quick answer: Pericles and Merry Wives. If you can only see one show, I’d go for Pericles. The play is hardly ever produced—and you’re never going to see...
by Colin Thomas | Jul 7, 2016 | Review
Leave a Comment I didn’t like it, but I’m glad I went. Playwright James Gordon King and the rest of the artistic team on Movements No. 1&2are so talented and ambitious that there was something lovely about watching this piece, even though the script didn’t work...
by Colin Thomas | Jul 4, 2016 | Review
Leave a Comment Just in case you’ve been taking last week’s Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards too seriously, consider this: in terms of trophies, one of the best shows of this or any other season was shut out. Tetsuro Shigematsu’s Empire of the Sonwent into the evening...
by Colin Thomas | Jun 9, 2016 | Review
Look! Look! Look how beautiful and complex human beings are! In Annie Baker’s gorgeous, Pulitzer Prize-winning script The Flick, three employees of a movie theatre hang around, clean up, and talk. It’s slow and it’s minimalist—it goes on for three hours, including...
