by Colin Thomas | Apr 18, 2019 | Review
I saw some phenomenal work while I was in New York City last week. I also some saw flawed performances and productions—but Broadway is so intense it felt like everything was on a grand scale. Ruth Wilson’s Fool tries to steady Glenda Jackson’s King Lear....
by Colin Thomas | Apr 17, 2019 | Review
The title is a spoiler. The show is called Bed & Breakfast for Christ’s sake so, when gay couple Brett and Drew spend their first half hour onstage together dithering about whether or they’re going to open a B&B, I felt like screaming, “Haven’t you read the...
by Colin Thomas | Apr 7, 2019 | Review
Guest review by David Johnston It’s a good production and, when the script occasionally gets out of its own way, it becomes great. In Cave Canem’s latest outing, neo-Nazi skinhead Mike (Kenton Klassen) has stomped a Hindu man to death; liberal...
by Colin Thomas | Apr 4, 2019 | Review
The Tashme Project: The Living Archives is an elegantly simple, moving, and important piece of theatre. Julie Tamako Manning and Matt Miwa, who created and perform the show, each have one Japanese parent and, when they met while working at the National Arts Centre a...
by Colin Thomas | Apr 3, 2019 | Review
New Cackle Sisters: Kitchen Chicken is inventive but not dazzling, an intermittently engaging form of theatrical folk art. In the show, a cast of six prepares a meal of chicken and mashed potatoes as well as appetizers—all while performing popular American songs from...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 30, 2019 | Review
I thought it was never going to end. Then, after two hours, the lights finally came up—but it was only intermission. We had another hour and a half to go. Playwright Lucy Kirkwood’s Chimerica is about the current murky codependence between China and the States. To...
