by Colin Thomas | Jul 13, 2026 | Review
Hmm. When I saw Goblin: Macbeth at Bard on the Beach in 2023, I pretty much hated it: “The goblin element is never outrageous, it’s rarely funny, and Shakespeare’s text is wasted.” I was not a fan of the rigid latex masks the actors wore. But I saw Goblin: Oedipus...
by Colin Thomas | Jul 12, 2026 | Review
It’s a pleasure to sit in the company of such a thematically, artistically, and emotionally large and ambitious work of art. Director Chris Lam’s mounting of A Streetcar Named Desire for the Ensemble Theatre Company isn’t perfect, but it’s certainly rich enough to...
by Colin Thomas | Jul 11, 2026 | Review
There you go. This is what we want from Theatre Under the Stars: an embraceable musical gorgeously produced. Unlike Sister Act, the other offering from TUTS this summer, The Little Mermaid has a score full of lyrically and rhythmically engaging songs, and a...
by Colin Thomas | Jul 10, 2026 | Review
The music in Sister Act is a generic mix of disco, soul, and gospel, and the book is so thin you can see through it but, in this production for Theatre Under the Stars, director Peter Jorgensen has done an excellent job of shining up this inferior material. The 2006...
by Colin Thomas | Jun 27, 2026 | Review
A big part of my job in this review will be to draw a line between my experience of this production and the experience I think you’ll be likely to have if you see it. The second part of that equation is simple: The Play That Goes Wrong is a farce and it’s being...
by Colin Thomas | Jun 23, 2026 | Review
Corruption, ambition, willingness to cause and collude in suffering and death: Macbeth resonates. What sins are Trump, Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg et al willing to commit to feed their appetites for money and power? What are the rest of us supposed to do with our...
