by Colin Thomas | Mar 13, 2021 | Review
Why? Moby Dick in the Dark, the latest production from Theatre in the Dark, is an audio adaptation of Herman Melville’s enormous novel, Moby-Dick: or, the White Whale. Listening to the audiobook takes 24 hours. This audio play lasts a mere hour and 40 minutes,...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 6, 2021 | Review
I liked it best when I was the most confused. The three-episode video series K Body and Mind, which was written and directed by Conor Wylie, has a fantastic set-up and an extraordinarily stylish mode of delivery. The story takes place sometime in the twenty-first...
by Colin Thomas | Feb 19, 2021 | Review
I’m a white guy reviewing a show about mixed-race identity, specifically the reclamation of Black identity. The lack of diversity in criticism is a serious problem and I’ve been trying to find ways to address it, but I lack resources. I’ve recently had a conversation...
by Colin Thomas | Feb 13, 2021 | Review
The fun started when I was trying to book a ticket for this online show using my phone: voice-to-text translated Fifty Shades of Vinyl as Fifty Shades of Anal. That was just the beginning of the evening. In Fifty Shades of Vinyl, writers Kyle Carpenter and Nico...
by Colin Thomas | Feb 11, 2021 | Review
I’m glad I stuck around for the last two episodes of the three-part audio series Rishi & d Douen; they’re so much better than Episode 1. The story is about a nine-year-old named Rishi, who uses they/them pronouns according to Carousel’s press material. Like their...
