by Colin Thomas | Aug 15, 2017 | Review
Vancouver Greenroom is all about the local theatre community. BACKBONE Like a parent, but calmer—or maybe a best friend but less indulgent—the stage manager is the backbone of a production. This week, there’s celebration of stage managers from a playwright who...
by Colin Thomas | Jul 13, 2017 | Review
Thanks to director Scott Bellis, silent woman make the loudest statement in The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Warning: I’m going to give away some major plot points here, but I will not give away what makes their realization so wonderful in this production. This comedy is...
by Colin Thomas | Jul 12, 2017 | Review
This is what life is for. Really. I’m not exaggerating. This realization hit me as I was in Malkin Bowl watching the Theatre Under the Stars production of the musical Mary Poppins. The backdrop behind the number “Step in Time” was soaked in indigo lighting that was...
by Colin Thomas | Jun 16, 2017 | Review
Let’s be clear: Much Ado About Nothing is about something. Director John Murphy’s production accesses the play’s depths, but only intermittently. Too often, it gets distracted by its own inventive surfaces. Shakespeare sets his comedy in Messina, Italy, and Murphy...
by Colin Thomas | Jun 1, 2017 | Review
The Arts Club is living off the avails of puppet sex. In the best scene in Hand to God, which is currently playing at the BMO Theatre Centre, two puppets go at it like they’ve just discovered Sesame Street’scopy of the Kama Sutra. And Avenue Q, which the Arts Club...
by Colin Thomas | May 21, 2017 | Review
After watching playwright John Patrick Shanley’s Outside Mullingar, it’s as if you can smell the spring leaves more keenly on your way home from the theatre. You’re more hopeful and awake. And you want to kiss somebody. In the story, we meet 42-year-old Anthony...
