by Colin Thomas | Jan 10, 2022 | Review
I Cannot Lie to the Stars That Made me is full of pleasing textures but, unfortunately, little else. Catherine Hernandez wrote the script that director Fay Nass has adapted for the frank theatre into a 53-minute audio play with music. It’s about a woman who leaves an...
by Colin Thomas | Dec 11, 2021 | Review
It always amazes me when a show manages to save itself in Act 2. This production of Snowflake does that — splendidly. In playwright Mike Bartlett’s Snowflake, the first act is a monologue delivered by a guy named Andy. As he waits in a church hall in his hometown of...
by Colin Thomas | Dec 10, 2021 | Review
If you listen to the first two lines of The Power of the Dog, you will know exactly where this movie is going, so do yourself a favour: listen and save yourself from two (mostly) tedious hours. I say “mostly” because, thanks to cinematographer Ari Wegner, The Power of...
by Colin Thomas | Dec 4, 2021 | Review
On opening night, several people told me that they enjoyed Touchstone Theatre’s production of Adam Grant Warren’s new play Lights. I did not. I’m going to lay out my reasons, not because I’m trying to suck the pleasure out of anybody’s experience, but...
by Colin Thomas | Nov 29, 2021 | Review
I love this show about as much as I’ve loved anything in two years. Early on in Everybody, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s adaptation of the fifth-century morality play Everyman, Death, who kickstarts the action, says, “You’re all dying, starting now.” Of course, we’re all...
by Colin Thomas | Nov 29, 2021 | Review
Act 1 is weird. Technically, it’s slick, but it’s so aggressively entertaining and relentlessly uplifting that, watching it, I started to feel like I was on a ride in Disneyland — or maybe Dollywood. Are those real people on the stage or are they robots? In Charles...
