by Colin Thomas | Jul 4, 2016 | Review
Leave a Comment Just in case you’ve been taking last week’s Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards too seriously, consider this: in terms of trophies, one of the best shows of this or any other season was shut out. Tetsuro Shigematsu’s Empire of the Sonwent into the evening...
by Colin Thomas | Jun 9, 2016 | Review
Look! Look! Look how beautiful and complex human beings are! In Annie Baker’s gorgeous, Pulitzer Prize-winning script The Flick, three employees of a movie theatre hang around, clean up, and talk. It’s slow and it’s minimalist—it goes on for three hours, including...
by Colin Thomas | May 1, 2016 | Review
In August of 2017, I crashed my website because sometimes I am the opposite of a genius. Thanks to the genius of Giorgio at Web Hosting Canada, I got my site back and I have been able to restore most of my content. Unfortunately, the content from May and June 2016...
by Colin Thomas | Apr 29, 2016 | Review
Leave a Comment Are you a person of colour who would like to develop their chops as a theatre critic or maybe just reach a wider audience? In the interests of creating more diversity in Vancouver’s community of theatre critics, I’d like to offer my...
by Colin Thomas | Apr 22, 2016 | Review
Leave a Comment While many larger companies routinely fail to represent the diverse cultural make-up of this city, the rEvolver Festival is doing a bang-up job of it. Of the twelve ticketed shows that will be on view at the Cultch May 11 to 22, seven have been created...
by Colin Thomas | Apr 18, 2016 | Review
Leave a Comment Aaron Drake’s new novel is a thing of beauty. A book that I edited has been nominated for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award! Hooray for author Aaron Cully Drake! Aaron’s book, Do You Think This is Strange?, is narrated by an 18-year-old autistic boy...
