by Colin Thomas | Nov 14, 2019 | Review
Going into the Arts Club’s production of The Sound of Music I could hardly have been more resistant. I doubt you could find a more conventional, less adventuresome Christmas show. And the politics of The Sound of Music are weird: it tells the story of the Nazi...
by Colin Thomas | Nov 8, 2019 | Review
THIS IS A GUEST REVIEW BY MAX WYMAN What has made Crystal Pite “one of the dance world’s most sought-after artists” (The Guardian) is not simply the ravishing movement sequences that she invents. Her dance-works are animated thoughts about the complicated...
by Colin Thomas | Nov 8, 2019 | Review
Sure, Kim Kardashian wears great clothes, but does she have a soul? There’s a similar problem — although it’s not nearly as severe or creepy — with Kuroko: the production is stunning but, narratively and emotionally, Tetsuro Shigematsu’s script is perfunctory. On...
by Colin Thomas | Nov 7, 2019 | Review
There’s too much too soon. From the get-go, we know things are going to be creepy. In the story, which playwright Jeffrey Hatcher has adapted from Henry James’s 1898 novella, a young governess accepts a position from an eccentric Londoner: she will journey to Bly, the...
by Colin Thomas | Nov 3, 2019 | Review
Go see this show. Because you should never ever turn down a chance to see a play by Caryl Churchill. She’s been one of the most exciting dramatists in the world for the last 40 years, and she will fuck you up — and reward you — every single time. In...
by Colin Thomas | Nov 2, 2019 | Review
Jan Derbyshire’s Certified is pretty much perfect. And how often do I get to say that? Certified is about Derbyshire’s journey with mental illness and mental health, but it’s not one of those stories that collapse into the horrors of madness. Derbyshire allows herself...
