by Colin Thomas | Mar 17, 2022 | Review
Unladylike co., which is producing bad eggs, is a new, young, feminist company. I’m sympathetic on all these fronts — and I can’t recommend this production. Written by Jessica Hood, bad eggs, which is being presented online, plucks Persephone and Hades from their myth...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 12, 2022 | Review
Clean/Espejos is so good that I’m worried about not doing being able to do it justice in this review. The script — written by Christine Quintana with translation and adaptation by Paula Zelaya-Cervantes — is an impressively mature work of art that its two characters...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 11, 2022 | Review
Especially if you’re over 50, don’t bother with this play; you don’t have that much good time left. Jason Sherman’s new script Ominous Sounds at the River Crossing; or, Another Fucking Dinner Party Play is funny — but only for about the first ten minutes. After that,...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 6, 2022 | Review
At first, I was not in the groove of Little Red Warrior and His Lawyer — and I was content to think, “Okay, maybe this wasn’t written for me.” Other people were laughing up a storm, including the row of Indigenous folks in front of me — so maybe I just wasn’t...
by Colin Thomas | Feb 1, 2022 | Review
Written by married couple Omari Newton and Amy Lee Lavoie, Redbone Coonhound isn’t always subtle or precisely focused, but it’s got force! It’s about Michael, who’s married to Marissa. As in the Newton/Lavoie marriage, he’s Black, she’s white, and they live in...
by Colin Thomas | Jan 11, 2022 | Review
What world are we in? The Cull, which was written by Michele Riml and Michael St. John Smith, and which is being presented as an audio play, starts off as a bougie sitcom. Nicole and her husband Paul are hosting a dinner party — in their 12,000-square-foot house — to...
