by Colin Thomas | Mar 11, 2022 | Review
Especially if you’re over 50, don’t bother with this play; you don’t have that much good time left. Jason Sherman’s new script Ominous Sounds at the River Crossing; or, Another Fucking Dinner Party Play is funny — but only for about the first ten minutes. After that,...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 6, 2022 | Review
At first, I was not in the groove of Little Red Warrior and His Lawyer — and I was content to think, “Okay, maybe this wasn’t written for me.” Other people were laughing up a storm, including the row of Indigenous folks in front of me — so maybe I just wasn’t...
by Colin Thomas | Feb 1, 2022 | Review
Written by married couple Omari Newton and Amy Lee Lavoie, Redbone Coonhound isn’t always subtle or precisely focused, but it’s got force! It’s about Michael, who’s married to Marissa. As in the Newton/Lavoie marriage, he’s Black, she’s white, and they live in...
by Colin Thomas | Jan 11, 2022 | Review
What world are we in? The Cull, which was written by Michele Riml and Michael St. John Smith, and which is being presented as an audio play, starts off as a bougie sitcom. Nicole and her husband Paul are hosting a dinner party — in their 12,000-square-foot house — to...
by Colin Thomas | Jan 10, 2022 | Review
I Cannot Lie to the Stars That Made me is full of pleasing textures but, unfortunately, little else. Catherine Hernandez wrote the script that director Fay Nass has adapted for the frank theatre into a 53-minute audio play with music. It’s about a woman who leaves an...
