by Colin Thomas | Apr 16, 2023 | Review
Artistically, Rubaboo is mostly terrible. But there’s no denying the project’s good intentions. Core creator Andrea Menard, who also stars in this cabaret performance, has set out to explore the history and wisdom of her Métis culture. She’s aiming for truth and...
by Colin Thomas | Apr 15, 2023 | Review
The Search Party’s production of Stupid Fucking Bird isn’t perfect, but it includes so many wildly successful elements that it’s worth seeing. Aaaron Posner’s script is a riff on Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull. The timeframe is updated to the present and some of the...
by Colin Thomas | Apr 1, 2023 | Review
I’m white and urban writing about playwright Shayna Jones’s exploration of being Black and rural. Keep that in mind as you read this. In her solo show Black & Rural, which she has written and is now performing, Jones tells us that she lives in a mountain village...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 31, 2023 | Review
Hedda Gabler rides the tension between realism and melodrama. This United Players production gets that combo right enough of the time to provide a consistently intriguing, often impressive evening. Playwright Henrik Ibsen is known as the father of theatrical realism...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 12, 2023 | Review
“Is it going to be over soon?” is not what you want to hear when you take a kid to the theatre, but that’s what my partner was getting from his eight-year-old grandson during this production of Oz. I don’t blame the boy. I was wondering the same thing. Patrick...
