by Colin Thomas | Oct 17, 2019 | Review
Equivocation isn’t much fun, but it’s all I’ve got. There are strengths in the performances in this Arts Club production of Martyna Majok’s Cost of Living. And the Pulitzer Prize-winning script is compassionate and sometimes lyrical. But there are also times when the...
by Colin Thomas | Oct 13, 2019 | Review
The venue doesn’t work. The style doesn’t work. And the wig they’ve given Katey Wright is horrible. But it’s not all bad news. Raincity Theatre, which scored a smashing success with is site-specific production of Sweeney Todd last season is back with a...
by Colin Thomas | Oct 12, 2019 | Review
What country, friends, is this? For about the first three-quarters of Body Awareness, I had no idea where I was. I mean, I knew the literal location. In Annie Baker’s script, a couple named Joyce and Phyllis, are living with Joyce’s 21-year-old son Jared in a Vermont...
by Colin Thomas | Oct 5, 2019 | Review
Sometimes I think that theatre companies should offer half-price tickets to people who only want to watch Act 2. Act 1 of The Birds & the Bees is a waste of time. Admittedly, it sets up the story. Thirty-eight-year-old Sarah’s 11-year marriage has just broken up —...
by Colin Thomas | Oct 4, 2019 | Review
Luzia is by far the most sensual Cirque du Soleil show I’ve seen. Go with your body wide awake. Go with somebody you can grab onto when you’re screaming and lean into when you’re swooning. Most Cirque shows are set in magical realms, but that’s only partly true of...
by Colin Thomas | Oct 2, 2019 | Review
In What We’re Up Against, playwright Theresa Rebeck makes legitimate points, but the way she makes them is so boring! Eliza, who seems to be near the beginning of her career, has been at an architectural firm for five months. Rebeck quickly establishes that Eliza is a...
