by Colin Thomas | Jul 19, 2025 | Review
I’m going to hold off on my assessment for a little bit and give you some context. I love a good bimbo and the character Elle Woods in the musical Legally Blonde is one of the best. A Malibu princess who has a 4.0 grade average — in fashion merchandising — Elle is...
by Colin Thomas | Jul 15, 2025 | Review
The material isn’t immortal, but it’s substantial enough and the production is perfect. Yep, that’s what I said: perfect. Jessie Nelson’s book for the musical is based on the movie, which was written by Adrienne Shelly. In the story, a waitress and piemaker named...
by Colin Thomas | Jul 15, 2025 | Review
The play is slight. Director Dean Paul Gibson’s production is inconsistent. And young actor Jacob Leonard is a star. If The Two Gentlemen of Verona hadn’t been written by Shakespeare, I can’t imagine it would still be getting produced today. In the simple and...
by Colin Thomas | Jul 15, 2025 | Review
Playwright Jessica B. Hill’s The Dark Lady kept me listening for the most part, but I was never fully or consistently engaged. The Dark Lady imagines a relationship between William Shakespeare and Emilia Bassano, the first woman in England to claim the status of...
by Colin Thomas | Jul 8, 2025 | Review
This Bard on the Beach production of Much Ado About Nothing explains ideas that don’t need explaining and misses ideas that should be obvious. The script is about the cruelty of patriarchal gender dynamics. In the central story, Beatrice and Benedick, who are...
