by Colin Thomas | Feb 15, 2024 | Review
By the end of Juliet, A Revenge Comedy, I was completely into it. In the script, which was written by Ryan Gladstone and Pippa Mackie, Juliet from Romeo and Juliet finds herself in a kind of Shakespearean Groundhog Day: she keeps falling in love, losing her...
by Colin Thomas | Feb 4, 2024 | Review
(Photo of Simon Laherty, Sarah Mainwaring and Scott Price by Tristram Kenton for The Guardian) For about the first 20 minutes of The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes, I was enjoying the uniqueness of the experience. By the end of the show’s 60-minute running time,...
by Colin Thomas | Feb 3, 2024 | Review
The music is sublime. Sublime. But, especially as it’s presented in this production, the script is not. When Choir Boy started, with Andrew Broderick, who plays the central character, Pharus, singing a cappella, and then, when he was joined, in perfect harmony, by...
by Colin Thomas | Jan 26, 2024 | Review
I have a very strong hunch that, if any other person who was in the audience with me last night had the opportunity to review The Mirror, they’d be giving it a more enthusiastic write-up than I’m about to. When they were all on their feet, clapping wildly, I was in my...
by Colin Thomas | Jan 24, 2024 | Review
This might sound hokey, but watching Gertrude and Alice made my insides feel like spring: I was filled with surprise and freshness. This script was created by a trio of playwrights: Anna Chatterton, Evalyn Parry, and Karin Randoja. In it, writer Stein and her life...