by Colin Thomas | Dec 16, 2023 | Review
Director Johnna Wright’s production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella does what it sets out to do extraordinarily well. It’s entertaining, well produced, and moving. This is despite some stiff odds. Rodgers and Hammerstein originally wrote Cinderella for...
by Colin Thomas | Dec 15, 2023 | Review
This production is kind of like an old pillow: deliciously comfy sometimes but too often shapeless. Director Sarah Rodgers and her father Denis have adapted Dylan Thomas’s A Child’s Christmas in Wales, a poetic piece of prose that runs about 20 minutes if you speak it...
by Colin Thomas | Dec 13, 2023 | Review
This is a guest article by a young Vancouver actor who would like to remain anonymous. They are talking about their experiences and expressing their opinions. I am very grateful to them for sharing this articulate piece and I look forward to hearing feedback from...
by Colin Thomas | Nov 25, 2023 | Review
(Photo by Emily Cooper) Year after year, almost without fail, Theatre Replacement’s East Van Pantos are some of the most innovative, entertaining productions we see all season. Beauty and the Beast is one of the best. Co-writers Jivesh Parasram and Christine Quintana...
by Colin Thomas | Nov 24, 2023 | Review
Just a simple family meal with a frog (Photo by Augusto Meza) I’m grateful to every artist who takes on climate change and there are striking elements in Pippa Mackie’s script. Overall, though, Hurricane Mona is a mostly unfunny comedy and its structure sucks. That...
by Colin Thomas | Nov 17, 2023 | Review
(Photo of Melissa Oei and Tom McBeath by Javier Sotres) There’s a knock on the door. How else could it start? In Henrik Ibsen’s 1879 script A Doll’s House, Nora, the heroine, leaves her suffocating marriage, her husband Torvald, her three young children, and her...
