by Colin Thomas | Jul 27, 2019 | Review
Why, dear God? This production of Silence! The Musicalis a waste of talent. The musical is a parody of the 1991 film Silence of the Lambs. Quick reminder: in that movie, FBI trainee Clarice Starling is assigned to interview cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter...
by Colin Thomas | Jul 21, 2019 | Review
***Guest review by David Johnston My editor would probably ask me to rewrite this review if I just made it the word “NO” in 128-point font, so let’s get through this as painlessly as possible. Farmer friends Morgan (Darcey Johnson) and Angus (James Gill) have their...
by Colin Thomas | Jul 20, 2019 | Review
Superior Donuts is delicious. Set in 2008, Tracy Letts’s script is about the friendship between Arthur Przybyszewski, a white, second-generation Polish-American guy who runs a donut shop in the Uptown neighbourhood of Chicago, and Franco Wicks, an ebullient young...
by Colin Thomas | Jul 18, 2019 | Review
Billie Dawn, the central character in Born Yesterday, may go down in history as the greatest bimbo of all time. I’ve watched the movie version of Born Yesterday over and over and there’s a small, sunlit temple in the inner reaches of my heart that’s dedicated to the...
by Colin Thomas | Jul 11, 2019 | Review
This show features some of the best musical-theatre choreography I’ve ever seen — and I’m gay and old, so I have seen a lot of musical theatre, my children. Newsies is based on an actual newsboys’ strike that took place in New York City in 1899. Publishers Joseph...
by Colin Thomas | Jul 10, 2019 | Review
Mamma Mia! Here were go again. Mostly, director Shel Piercy’s production of this ABBA jukebox musical is cluttered and loud, but it also contains some really good bits. In the story, 20-year-old Sophie, who lives on a Greek island with her ex-pat mom Donna, is about...
