by Colin Thomas | Dec 5, 2014 | Review
The best holiday entertainment I’ve seen so far this year is still the Arts Club’s Avenue Q. This outrageously funny but warmhearted musical is running at the Granville Island Stage until January 3. Over the next couple of weeks, I’m going to see a...
by Colin Thomas | Nov 21, 2014 | Review
The top picks for this weekend are wildly different: Speed-the-Plow at Studio 16 and Saint Joan at the Stanley. In the monumental Saint Joan, an all-star cast led by Meg Roe, Dean Gibson, Scott Bellis, and Tom McBeath, tells the story of the Maid of Orléans. Director...
by Colin Thomas | Nov 14, 2014 | Review
What to see this weekend? That would still be Saint Joan, which is on at the Stanley until November 23. Don’t wait until the last minute though; if there’s any justice in the world, it will sell out. Director Kim Collier brings the intelligent but...
by Colin Thomas | Oct 31, 2014 | Review
They’re really different and they’re both really good: Saint Joan at the Stanley and Hunter Gatherers at the Havana. Saint Joan is a great big show loaded with serious talent and serious ideas (George Bernard Shaw-size ideas). I’ve been getting flak...
