by Colin Thomas | May 25, 2024 | Review
Madeleine Suddaby’s performance as Adelaide is worth the price of admission. Literally. Lay down that dough! Guys and Dolls premiered in 1950, but it’s based on work by Damon Runyon set two and three decades earlier. In the underworld of gamblers, strippers, and...
by Colin Thomas | May 10, 2024 | Review
Brian Friel’s The Freedom of the City feels more like a patchwork of scenes and ideas than a fully realized script — but it’s passionate, some of the writing is transcendent, and this production from Vital Spark Theatre is solid. Set in Londonderry, Northern Ireland...
by Colin Thomas | May 9, 2024 | Review
This is a piece I originally included in FRESH SHEET, The Newsletter a year ago. I’m reposting it here because I want to link to it in this week’s newsletter. CT BODIES NEAR ENOUGH TO TOUCH This isn’t breaking news. I stumbled upon fabric sculptor Judith Scott’s work...
by Colin Thomas | May 4, 2024 | Review
The actors in this premiere production of playwright Kamila Sediego’s Homecoming are treating the characters — and the project — with a level of respect that’s a pleasure to witness. Sediego’s script is about the effect of emigration on three generations of Filipinas....
by Colin Thomas | May 3, 2024 | Review
Director Jennifer Clement’s production of The Lifespan of a Fact is so assured, so physically handsome and well acted, that I almost didn’t care that the script isn’t as smart as it would have you believe. Set in New York and Las Vegas, The Lifespan of a Fact is about...
by Colin Thomas | Apr 21, 2024 | Review
Something alchemical is going on here: You used to call me Marie… sustains itself longer than logic tells me it should. The play’s success doesn’t last all the way to the end of its 90 minutes, but there are significant forces at work here. Tai Amy Grauman’s...
