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...
by Colin Thomas | Dec 1, 2024 | Review
Perhaps the kindest way to start is to say that, artistically, Miracle on 34th Street is a tough sell in 2024. (And the realistic way to start is to say that this Arts Club production fails to sell it.) Miracle on 34th Street is thin, sentimental, and painfully...
by Colin Thomas | Dec 1, 2024 | Review
Childhood poverty and abuse, adult addiction: this is my kind of holiday show. Seriously. At this time of year when so much entertainment is brainless and weightless, In the Belly of the Carp offers a more satisfying experience. And the staging of this production from...
