by Colin Thomas | Oct 15, 2017 | Review
There’s a lot of powerful writing in Scott Button’s new play VIVA. That’s the most important thing to know. There are also lapses of taste, which undermine the strengths. In VIVA, Button overlaps two narratives. At the outset, Alice and Graeme, who don’t know one...
by Colin Thomas | Oct 12, 2017 | Review
It’s as if playwright Kevin Loring has tried to cram half a dozen Greek tragedies—plus a couple of episodes of The Honeymooners—into one evening. His new play, Thanks for Giving, is inspiringly ambitious, often funny, sometimes beautiful, and structurally scattershot....
by Colin Thomas | Oct 11, 2017 | Review
Theatre is community WE NEED TO TALK I love you, I really do. All of you who read Vancouver Greenroom are important to me. But…our relationship has to change. And I want us to grow together, not apart. Starting in November, this blog feature, Vancouver Greenroom,...
by Colin Thomas | Oct 6, 2017 | Review
Theatre is community. SORE THROAT Geez, my throat hurts. The cheering for Vancouver theatre artists just doesn’t stop these days. Marcus Youssef, who is nominated for the Simonivitch Prize, just won the Mayor’s Arts Award for theatre, and Conor Wylie got the nod as...
by Colin Thomas | Oct 6, 2017 | Review
Hyperlink is terrific, stylin’ entertainment. It’s about social media. And, in crucial ways, it’s the opposite of social media. During the show, we’re all in the same space at the same time, for instance. Real human beings, live flesh: how refreshing! Nobody is...
by Colin Thomas | Oct 5, 2017 | Review
There are exquisite elements in 1 Hour Photo. There are also significant problems with the storytelling. For almost its entire length, 1 Hour Photo doesn’t seem to know what it’s about. Writer Tetsuro Shigematsu, who performs the show with musician Steve Charles,...
