by Colin Thomas | Feb 8, 2025 | Review
It’s almost there in some ways and absolutely not there in others. In Grandma. Gangsta. Guerrilla., emerging playwright Abi Padilla interweaves three storylines. The core story is about Lola (Grandma) Basyang, who is succumbing to dementia. Her grandkids Nika and...
by Colin Thomas | Feb 8, 2025 | Review
Puppeteer Ronnie Burkett’s Wonderful Joe makes about as much sense as a painting by Marc Chagall — by which I mean it makes so much associative, intuitive, emotional sense. And it’s beautiful to look at as it swirls around its themes of loneliness and inclusion,...
by Colin Thomas | Feb 2, 2025 | Review
See it. Playwright Will Arbery’s 2019 script Heroes of the Fourth Turning offers uniquely challenging perspectives and this strong mounting from Mitch and Murray Productions contains two downright stellar performances. The characters in Heroes of the Fourth Turning...
by Colin Thomas | Jan 25, 2025 | Review
It’s a beautiful play, slightly reduced in this production, but absolutely worth seeing. The Height of the Storm is set in an older couple’s home outside Paris. André, a renowned writer, has dementia. Although she appears, his wife Madeleine, the equally bright and...
by Colin Thomas | Jan 24, 2025 | Review
Well, swash my buckles. That was a good time I didn’t see coming. The Three Musketeers, I thought. Yay. Swordfighting, glamourized murder, general yo-ho butchness: not my things. I feared this production would be superficial and boring. But, as it turns out it’s...
by Colin Thomas | Dec 16, 2024 | Review
The horses’ contributions are so much more impressive than the humans’. But the horses are great and so are their teamsters. So let’s start there. At the Caravan Farm Theatre’s winter shows, horse-drawn sleighs — or wagons, depending on how much snow there is — carry...