by Colin Thomas | Nov 14, 2019 | Review
Going into the Arts Club’s production of The Sound of Music I could hardly have been more resistant. I doubt you could find a more conventional, less adventuresome Christmas show. And the politics of The Sound of Music are weird: it tells the story of the Nazi...
by Colin Thomas | Jan 31, 2019 | Review
I went from thinking, “This is going to be a very long night,” to laughing uncontrollably. That is an excellent trajectory. Thornton Wilder wrote his farce The Matchmaker in 1954. It’s probably best known today as the play that Hello, Dolly! is based on. Set in the...
by Colin Thomas | Nov 22, 2018 | Review
Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley is going to do very well at the box office—but not because it’s good. Co-written by Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon, the play is a sequel to Jane Austen’s novel, Pride and Prejudice. With her husband, the dashing Darcy, Lizzy now...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 16, 2018 | Review
Because its heart is simple but pure, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time is both boring and moving. Based on Mark Haddon’s bestselling novel, Simon Stephens’s play follows Christopher, a 15-year-old boy on the autism spectrum, as he tries to figure out...
by Colin Thomas | May 17, 2018 | Review
This production of Mamma Mia! is selling the show so hard you’d think it was the last used car on the lot. Mamma Mia! is a ridiculous—but extremely amiable—jukebox musical. Catherine Johnson, who wrote the book, has strung a bunch of hit songs by ABBA into an unlikely...
