by Colin Thomas | Apr 10, 2022 | Review
It’s impossible to talk about this script in a meaningful way without revealing its central twist. I hope to talk about it in a meaningful way, so … you’ve been warned Written by Donald Margulies and premiered in 1996, Collected Stories asks a question I already know...
by Colin Thomas | Apr 9, 2022 | Review
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a show that’s run so hot and cold. There are elements and passages in Alberta Theatre Projects’ In Wonderland that are transporting — and long stretches in which nothing fires. In this two-act adventure, playwright Anna Cummer offers a...
by Colin Thomas | Apr 3, 2022 | Review
I have no doubt that Dave Deveau’s Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls is a force for good in the world — and by that I mean a force for love. And the resolutions of this story about a trans boy, his friend, and family moved me to tears. My fuller response is more...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 27, 2022 | Review
It’s kind of like a horror movie with an obvious out — like “Why don’t they just call the cops?” In her 2011 script How the World Began, Catherine Trieschmann sets up an artificial conflict between the scientific and the religious. Susan has recently arrived in...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 26, 2022 | Review
There are several layers of experimentation going on here. Some of them work. A couple work splendidly. Playwright Lucas Hnath really does present A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay about the Death of Walt Disney as a public reading. Four actors file...
