by Colin Thomas | Jul 20, 2019 | Review
Superior Donuts is delicious. Set in 2008, Tracy Letts’s script is about the friendship between Arthur Przybyszewski, a white, second-generation Polish-American guy who runs a donut shop in the Uptown neighbourhood of Chicago, and Franco Wicks, an ebullient young...
by Colin Thomas | Jul 18, 2019 | Review
Billie Dawn, the central character in Born Yesterday, may go down in history as the greatest bimbo of all time. I’ve watched the movie version of Born Yesterday over and over and there’s a small, sunlit temple in the inner reaches of my heart that’s dedicated to the...
by Colin Thomas | Jul 11, 2019 | Review
This show features some of the best musical-theatre choreography I’ve ever seen — and I’m gay and old, so I have seen a lot of musical theatre, my children. Newsies is based on an actual newsboys’ strike that took place in New York City in 1899. Publishers Joseph...
by Colin Thomas | Jul 10, 2019 | Review
Mamma Mia! Here were go again. Mostly, director Shel Piercy’s production of this ABBA jukebox musical is cluttered and loud, but it also contains some really good bits. In the story, 20-year-old Sophie, who lives on a Greek island with her ex-pat mom Donna, is about...
by Colin Thomas | Jul 1, 2019 | Review
Yes! This is the Bard on the Beach production I’ve been waiting for. This is the one to see. All’s Well That Ends Well is rarely produced — and there are good reasons for that — but co-directors Johnna Wright and Rohit Chokhani have set the story in India in...
