by Colin Thomas | May 4, 2018 | Review
Yesterday, I launched a Patreon campaign. It’s all about creating an alternative funding source so that I can keep writing about theatre. The video explains it all. And, when you’ve been thoroughly convinced by the video, here’s where you can join...
by Colin Thomas | May 3, 2018 | Review
I started checking my watch about a half hour in. And time slowed down after that. Supposedly, Neil LaBute’s The Money Shot is a comedy. Set on the Hollywood terrace of an Oscar-winning lesbian actor, LaBute’s script features three movieland airheads and one bitter...
by Colin Thomas | Apr 30, 2018 | Review
I laughed. I cried. I was confused. In her 2009 script, This, playwright Melissa James Gibson introduces us to five witty New Yorkers—well, four New Yorkers and a Frenchman—who are desperately trying to negotiate the disappointments and responsibilities of early...
by Colin Thomas | Apr 27, 2018 | Review
The History of the World (Based on Banalities) is a monologue for a boy about his failed connection with his mother. And that’s ironic because Phil’s Mom Martine, a physicist, was fascinated by the Higgs boson particle, which physics tells us connects everything—and...
by Colin Thomas | Apr 21, 2018 | Review
“Feeling the air up my skirt…That was one of the greatest sensations.” So says John, a cross-dressing straight guy in The Explanation. Watching The Explanation, I got a bit of wind up my skirt, too. By loosening the restrictions on gender expression, The...
by Colin Thomas | Apr 19, 2018 | Review
Melody Anderson’s new play Me and You is sweetly soulful. And it could be better built. In Me and You, Anderson logs exemplary moments in the lifelong relationship between sisters Liz and Lou. The first time we see them, Liz, who is four years older, is outraged when...
