by Colin Thomas | Apr 1, 2023 | Review
I’m white and urban writing about playwright Shayna Jones’s exploration of being Black and rural. Keep that in mind as you read this. In her solo show Black & Rural, which she has written and is now performing, Jones tells us that she lives in a mountain village...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 31, 2023 | Review
Hedda Gabler rides the tension between realism and melodrama. This United Players production gets that combo right enough of the time to provide a consistently intriguing, often impressive evening. Playwright Henrik Ibsen is known as the father of theatrical realism...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 12, 2023 | Review
“Is it going to be over soon?” is not what you want to hear when you take a kid to the theatre, but that’s what my partner was getting from his eight-year-old grandson during this production of Oz. I don’t blame the boy. I was wondering the same thing. Patrick...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 11, 2023 | Review
I really enjoyed My Little Tomato — until I started to get tired of it. It’s audacious, that’s for damn sure. In Rick Tae’s new script, Keaton Chu inherits his parents’ produce farm when they’re killed in a freak accident. Produce wholesaler Joe McKinley interrupts...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 10, 2023 | Review
There might be a satisfying production to be had based on Kate Hamill’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility but I haven’t seen it yet. The script itself is problematic. In the story, when Henry Dashwood dies, the law says his estate, including his...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 4, 2023 | Review
This style is so hard to pull off. But this creative team is mostly doing it very well — sometimes astonishingly so. Zahida Rahemtulla’s The Wrong Bashir is a farce. An Ismaili farce. In the story, a nominating committee selects Bashir Ladha, a philosophy student who...
