by Colin Thomas | Nov 18, 2022 | Review
Brace yourselves: this is going to be a rave. I was so moved during the first act of the Arts Club’s production of The Sound of Music that I was in serious danger of making embarrassing sounds. And I wasn’t alone in suppressing sobs. Damien Atkins’s performance as...
by Colin Thomas | Nov 5, 2022 | Review
As is so often the case, the acting is better than the writing. Seventeen is about a group of friends (mostly), who have gathered in a playground to celebrate their last day of high school by getting hammered. As determined by Seventeen’s playwright Matthew Whittet,...
by Colin Thomas | Nov 4, 2022 | Review
I cried. I was bored. I laughed. Mom’s the Word: Talkin’ Turkey, the latest in the Mom’s the Word series, is inconsistent but, when it lands, you feel it. The Mom’s the Word shows date way back to 1993, when a group of theatre professionals, who were all raising young...
by Colin Thomas | Oct 29, 2022 | Review
Despite the sometimes superlative strengths of this production, the evening doesn’t satisfy — at least it didn’t satisfy me. That’s because, although there’s a lot of plot in Kat Sandler’s twisty script, there isn’t an engaging story. Right off the top, we meet Yaga...
by Colin Thomas | Oct 16, 2022 | Review
I love it when a show makes me work and The Café had me hoppin’. The evening also offers a tasty tasting menu of emerging and established local talent. In The Café, which was conceived by Fay Nass, seven short plays are performed at tables scattered around Kafka’s,...
by Colin Thomas | Oct 15, 2022 | Review
I’m going to suspend judgment on this one. Okay, no, I’m not, I have opinions. But I will acknowledge the context of my response. First opinion: an hour is long time to watch a couple bickering, especially if you don’t like them very much. In Ins Choi’s new play Bad...
