by Colin Thomas | Apr 1, 2020 | Review
Hi everybody, Glen Cairns, the longtime partner of theatre director and teacher Tom Kerr, wrote the tribute I’m sharing here. Stay well, Colin The fifth of eight children born to Commercial Traveler John Kerr and his wife, Rosina Montgomery Kerr, Tom was born in...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 6, 2020 | Review
Inheritance: a pick-the-path experience is more successful as a political and educational tool than it is as art — and it’s worth seeing. The writing team of Daniel Arnold, Darrell Dennis, and Medina Hahn has created an insanely ambitious format. In the set-up for...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 5, 2020 | Review
It’s enough to put you off going to the theatre. There’s some good acting in The Wedding Party, but the script is so stupid. In The Wedding Party, playwright Kristen Thomson imagines a wedding reception going wrong. Sherry Boychuk, who comes from a humble family, is...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 1, 2020 | Review
My date for The House at Pooh Corner was a four-year-old whose primary language is Turkish. Just before I picked Eren up, along with his dad, he’d had a meltdown. And, despite these challenges he liked the show, which makes my review more or less irrelevant, but I...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 1, 2020 | Review
Best of Enemies is a familiar and predictable story of a white man’s redemption, but it still matters — a great deal. And it’s true. In 1971, in Durham, North Carolina, Ann Atwater was a black housing activist and C.P. Ellis was the Exalted Cyclops of a Durham klavern...
by Colin Thomas | Feb 22, 2020 | Review
There’s about half of a very good play here and 100% of an excellent cast. In Pot Kettle Black, playwright Bill Marchant exploits the old characters-get-drunk-and-confessional/confrontational cliché. This approach has always struck me as a shortcut that gives...
