by Colin Thomas | Mar 8, 2024 | Review
Playwright and performer Jasmine Chen’s Jade Circle is a delicate, stylish, sometimes resonant piece of work that could use more concrete storytelling. Jade Circle is about reclaiming the language of one’s origin. In Chen’s autobiographical script, she shares the...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 3, 2024 | Review
Writing about Sunrise Betties is depressing, not because of the content, which includes drug dealing, police corruption, and a ridiculous amount of gore — but because it’s all such a mindless waste of time. In Cheyenne Rouleau’s new script, which is set in the...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 1, 2024 | Review
Big chunks of this production of Father Tartuffe: An Indigenous Misadventure are boring. And there are elements that don’t work at all. But the underlying premise is so good and the bits that work are so uniquely rewarding that, despite the holes in it, this show...
by Colin Thomas | Feb 18, 2024 | Review
I love this show, everything about it. And I strongly encourage you to see it. For CHILD-ish, Toronto playwright Sunny Drake interviewed 41 kids over a period of years. He also invited the kids to interview one another. And they interviewed him. The result is an...
by Colin Thomas | Feb 16, 2024 | Review
It’s fun. It’s moving sometimes. There something essentially theatrical about it. And I suspect we’re in particular need of it right now. Every Brilliant Thing is a one-actor show that was developed by playwright Duncan Macmillan and stand-up comedian...
by Colin Thomas | Feb 15, 2024 | Review
By the end of Juliet, A Revenge Comedy, I was completely into it. In the script, which was written by Ryan Gladstone and Pippa Mackie, Juliet from Romeo and Juliet finds herself in a kind of Shakespearean Groundhog Day: she keeps falling in love, losing her...
