by Colin Thomas | Sep 22, 2020 | Review
Incidental Moments of the Day is complex, engaging, and so potentially inflammatory that I want to warn you before you watch it. Between 2010 and 2013, playwright Richard Nelson wrote four plays about the Apple family of Rhinebeck,...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 13, 2020 | Review
There’s a lot of foreplay in this show and no orgasm. In Art Heist, playwrights TJ Dawe and Ming Hudson offer an experience in which audiences of up to 10 people sleuth around Granville Island trying to figure out who pulled off a half-billion-dollar theft from...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 12, 2020 | Review
This is the first time I’ve attended a live performance since the beginning of the plague, so I’m going to start off by talking about that. Going in, I was mildly freaked out; I’m 68 and I’m taking immunosuppressant drugs. Because I’m vulnerable, I wore a mask and a...
by Colin Thomas | May 24, 2020 | Review
Who wants to be seduced? I’m not talking about hard-wired seduction, the kind that’s all about your junk. I’m talking about the kind that opens your heart to irrational possibilities — like love — the kind that sets you floating in the universe and leaves you feeling...
by Colin Thomas | May 23, 2020 | Review
I was so painfully bored after the first hour of B that I fled to my bed and watched the remaining 45 minutes the next morning. In those 45 minutes, Guillermo Calderón’s script gets a tiny bit better. A tiny bit. In Calderón’s play, which is set in Chile, three...
by Colin Thomas | Apr 26, 2020 | Review
Friends, do yourselves a favour and get tickets for the remaining online performances of Good Things To Do from Rumble Theatre. They’re only five bucks at Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rumble-presents-good-things-to-do-tickets-102448897410 There are three...
