by Colin Thomas | Sep 10, 2018 | Review
When he was 22, Brian Cochrane went to Barcelona. Unfortunately, he doesn’t give us much of a reason to care that he went to Barcelona when he was 22. In this solo show, Cochrane tells us about meeting a magician who encouraged him to go to a vampire bar. He...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 9, 2018 | Review
Performed in Railspur Alley, FIX takes us on a site-specific and interactive journey through addiction—to drugs, smoking, food, even power. It’s also a personal journey: members of the Elegant Ladies Collective share their own stories. The cast includes a variety of...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 9, 2018 | Review
There is something deliciously seductive about witnessing Beth McLaughlin describe things. Her whispery voice, her expressive eyes, her precise cadence: you can practically bathe in her verbal portraits of a childhood Christmas morning or a dog’s funeral....
by Colin Thomas | Sep 9, 2018 | Review
It probably says something regarding American postsecondary education that Eric Jaffe interviewed 65 men about their college experiences and failed to come up with a single fascinating anecdote for his Fringe show. Throughout the hour, Jaffe makes vague reference to...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 9, 2018 | Review
About halfway through Al Lafrance’s I Think I’m Dead, I wrote in my notebook: “Things are happening. And he’s talking really fast. But nothing matters.” Then Lafrance turned it around. Big time. In this autobiographical solo, Lafrance covers a lot of ground: the...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 8, 2018 | Review
Like a modern romance, this show feels like it’s making up its own rules as it goes along—and that’s a beautiful thing. In Poly Queer Love Ballad, Gaby (Sara Vickruck) and Nina (Anais West) fall in love with one another—but Nina is bi and poly and Gaby is “the...
