by Colin Thomas | May 5, 2023 | Review
The script is mixed up and the production is inconsistent, but this show is fun — and that counts for a lot. In The Legend of Georgia McBride, playwright Matthew López tells the story of an Elvis impersonator named Casey who’s struggling — and failing — to make a...
by Colin Thomas | Apr 22, 2023 | Review
I don’t know if language gets more glorious than this. The poetry in Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood, a radio play from 1954 that was adapted for the stage, is unabashedly beautiful. In it, two narrators introduce us to the fictional Welsh town of Llareggub...
by Colin Thomas | Apr 16, 2023 | Review
Artistically, Rubaboo is mostly terrible. But there’s no denying the project’s good intentions. Core creator Andrea Menard, who also stars in this cabaret performance, has set out to explore the history and wisdom of her Métis culture. She’s aiming for truth and...
by Colin Thomas | Apr 15, 2023 | Review
The Search Party’s production of Stupid Fucking Bird isn’t perfect, but it includes so many wildly successful elements that it’s worth seeing. Aaaron Posner’s script is a riff on Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull. The timeframe is updated to the present and some of the...
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...
