by Colin Thomas | May 13, 2018 | Review
This play is vulgar. I’m going to start off with a major spoiler and I’m going to keep dropping spoilers because there’s no way to say what I want to say about Wet without doing so. In Wet, playwright David James Brock tells the story of Burns, a Canadian soldier who...
by Colin Thomas | May 12, 2018 | Review
Tolkien feels like academic Christian fanfiction. If that’s your thing, by all means go for it—all three acts and almost three hours of it. In his new script, playwright Ron Reed explores the friendship between J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings) and...
by Colin Thomas | May 10, 2018 | Review
There’s only so far you can go on style and good intentions. Bears looks fantastic and its political heart is in the right place. But the script is badly built, so it gets boring. Sheldon Elter, who plays Floyd, narrates his character’s journey in the third person....
by Colin Thomas | May 6, 2018 | Review
DON’T BE CONFUSED: THIS ISN’T MY REVIEW OF THE ARTS CLUB’S 2019 PRODUCTION OF THE ORCHARD (AFTER CHEKHOV), IT’S A REVIEW OF AN AMATEUR—AND SUPERIOR—PRODUCTION OF THE CHERRY ORCHARD. BUT ENJOY IT. 🙂 Spring aches. So does this delicate production...
by Colin Thomas | May 4, 2018 | Review
Yesterday, I launched a Patreon campaign. It’s all about creating an alternative funding source so that I can keep writing about theatre. The video explains it all. And, when you’ve been thoroughly convinced by the video, here’s where you can join...
by Colin Thomas | May 3, 2018 | Review
I started checking my watch about a half hour in. And time slowed down after that. Supposedly, Neil LaBute’s The Money Shot is a comedy. Set on the Hollywood terrace of an Oscar-winning lesbian actor, LaBute’s script features three movieland airheads and one bitter...
