by Colin Thomas | Sep 15, 2025 | Review
Such an extraordinary production! In the lead roles, wildly talented performers —most of whom I’ve never seen before. Such strength and depth in the ensemble. Everybody on the Metro Theatre stage is givin’ ‘er — and they have the chops to deliver. Just wait till you...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 13, 2025 | Review
I could not get a bead on Act 1, but I found Act 2 rewarding, which sucks, I guess, for the people who left at intermission. In the theatre, style is often the trickiest thing to get right, and this script exists in a stylistic hall of mirrors. Henrik Ibsen, who wrote...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 8, 2025 | Review
You know how, when you go swimming, your body remembers the water for a long time? After I watched the tap-dance show Neo Soul Ties, my body kept thrumming with rhythmic excitement. Neo Soul Ties is exhilarating! And, choreographed by Toronto artist Victoria Miller,...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 8, 2025 | Review
In her monologue, Patricia van der Meer reveals that, when she was five or six, she believed she was the second coming of Jesus Christ. Then she got a pair of red Buster Brown shoes and loved them so much she realized she was vain — not holy. That’s about it. There’s...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 8, 2025 | Review
The two sections of Plan V are so distinct they might as well be different scripts. The shorter one works. In the longer, opening section of her solo show, Eleanor O’Brien takes on the persona of Mama V, a pink-track-suited proselytizer in the revolutionary Pussy...
