by Colin Thomas | Oct 19, 2020 | Review
Representation matters. Viola Desmond’s legacy matters. And I’m a white guy who doesn’t think that this telling of Desmond’s story works very well — which is my way of acknowledging that perspective also matters. Please take it into account. Desmond’s is the Black...
by Colin Thomas | Oct 17, 2020 | Review
Trump is scarier. Climate change is scarier. Covid is scarier. Theatre in the Dark’s production of A War of the Worlds — Mack Gordon and Corey Bradberry adapted the novel by H.G. Wells — has a handful of things going for it. The novel unfolds in and around Victorian...
by Colin Thomas | Oct 12, 2020 | Review
The Doll’s House Project has huge things going for it, including playwright Henrik Ibsen’s shifting moral perspectives and a gallery of fine performances from a bumper crop of student actors. But Laara Sadiq has directed the piece for the stage even though it’s being...
by Colin Thomas | Oct 2, 2020 | Review
Are you looking for a really good reason to go back to the theatre? Here you go: the Arts Club’s production of Nilaja Sun’s No Child… will remind you what it’s all about. In the story, an actor/teacher named Miss Sun arrives at the impoverished Malcolm X High School...
by Colin Thomas | Oct 2, 2020 | Review
What? Why? So much nothing happens in counterFACTUAL that I was genuinely confused when the lights came up. I couldn’t quite believe it was over. Wasn’t there going to be some kind of ending, some kind of resolution or at least an intriguing cliffhanger? But there was...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 25, 2020 | Review
Last night’s Opening Night Bash at the Transform Cabaret Festival was … transformative for me. Moreso than last year’s. I don’t think that’s because this year’s edition was artistically “better”, whatever that means; I think it’s because the overwhelming...
