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...
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...
