by Colin Thomas | Mar 14, 2019 | Review
There’s nothing seriously wrong with Jesus Christ: The Lost Years. And there are some things that are majorly right. I’m just not super clear on why it exists. In this hour-long show, writers Ryan Gladstone, Katherine Sanders, and Bruce Horak imagine what Jesus might...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 9, 2019 | Review
One of the sections in Reverberations, an installation/performance piece by Brian Linds, knocked me out. In Reverberations, Linds, who has worked primarily as a sound designer for the past several years, explores his family history through five pieces that are all set...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 2, 2019 | Review
There are several plays going on at once in Jesus Freak. One of them is good. In the story, a liberal family gathers for Easter weekend in their getaway home on one of the Gulf Islands. Susan and Alan’s adult daughter Clara, who is pursuing post-graduate studies in...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 1, 2019 | Review
I took little naps in the blackouts between scenes: when the lights went down, so did my eyelids. That’s because sweet nothing happens for at least the first 85 minutes of The Good Bride’s 100-minute runtime. And I’m not just talking about the dearth of plot; there is...
by Colin Thomas | Feb 23, 2019 | Review
Morris Panych’s The Shoplifters is so slight that it almost doesn’t exist—although it does contain the beginning of an idea. That idea is that raw capitalism is unjust. Dom, a zealous security guard who’s training in a Superstore kind of place, apprehends a savvy old...
by Colin Thomas | Feb 22, 2019 | Review
The Amish Project is a sentimental fictionalization of a tragedy. In 2006, a shooter entered a school in the Amish community of Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania. He held ten girls hostage and shot eight of them, killing five. The Amish responded with forgiveness, reaching...
