by Colin Thomas | Dec 16, 2022 | Review
For me as kid and even as a young adult, watching the annual TV appearance of the Alistair Sim version of A Christmas Carol was a religious experience. I watched it every year, preferably by myself so that others who might be less devout wouldn’t distract me. I have...
by Colin Thomas | Dec 12, 2022 | Review
The Wonderful is not wonderful. You can’t beat the venue, but Luke Reece’s script is bad. A riff on the 1946 movie It’s a Wonderful Life, The Wonderful is Caravan Farm Theatre’s winter show. That means it takes place outdoors on a farm near Armstrong in the north...
by Colin Thomas | Dec 9, 2022 | Review
How did this show ever get programmed into the Arts Club’s season? The Arts Club is a professional company. Me Love Bingo!: Best in Snow is not of a professional standard. For Best in Snow, set designer Ted Roberts has turned the Newmont Stage into a bingo hall, so...
by Colin Thomas | Dec 5, 2022 | Review
You have to be smart to be dumb. Or wily. Or at least have good instincts. Okay, I don’t really know how they do it, but, playing a couple of goofballs in Pacific Theatre’s production of The Messiah, Peter Carlone and John Voth are very funny and very engaging. For...
by Colin Thomas | Dec 3, 2022 | Review
Absolutely the best thing about going to a kids’ show is that you get to take a kid. My friend Mathias, who’s six, accompanied my partner and me to Carousel Theatre’s production of Stiles & Drewe’s The 3 Little Pigs. Mati had never been to the theatre before and,...
by Colin Thomas | Nov 27, 2022 | Review
Director Adam Henderson and his team are giving Wittenberg a precise, committed, and creative production. But, despite its intellectual ambitions, the play itself is boring. Writer David Davalos has set his script at Hamlet’s university, Wittenberg, in Germany, and...
