> Colin Thomas When Rabbit Hole starts, it’s been eight months since Becca and Howie’s four-year-old son Danny was hit by a car and killed. The driver was a teenager named Jason Willette. In its diligent examination of the emotional impact of Danny’s death on his...

> Colin Thomas There are a whole lot of performers on the fringe festival circuit who lean too heavily on the eccentricity of their delivery. But it doesn’t matter how quickly you can talk, how much you flap around, how much you sweat, or how cunningly you can...

> Sarvin Esmaeili * The speed of Jon Bennett’s storytelling left me open-mouthed. He starts by casually chatting with the audience. Then he subtly shifts into the heart of his show with the question, “How many of you have missed your plane before?... Well,nobody...

> Colin Thomas Watching Gemma Wilcox perform is kind of like reading a children’s book—in which nothing much happens. If Magical Mystery Detour were a kids’ book, the emphasis would definitely be on the illustrations. In this one-woman show, Wilcox’s central...

> Colin Thomas When you unwrap Self-ish, there’s a gift waiting for you, but you’ve got to paw your way through a lot of packing material to get to it. In this monologue, playwright Kuan Foo introduces us to a 35-year-old Korean-Canadian woman named Esther. She’s...

> Colin Thomas No Belles may not be formally ambitious, but it is very well crafted—like a nicely cobbled shoe or a beautifully bound book. With a feminist spin, three actors tell the story of eight female scientists. All of these researchers had to deal with...