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 | Oct 17, 2019 | Review
Equivocation isn’t much fun, but it’s all I’ve got. There are strengths in the performances in this Arts Club production of Martyna Majok’s Cost of Living. And the Pulitzer Prize-winning script is compassionate and sometimes lyrical. But there are also times when the...
by Colin Thomas | Oct 5, 2019 | Review
Sometimes I think that theatre companies should offer half-price tickets to people who only want to watch Act 2. Act 1 of The Birds & the Bees is a waste of time. Admittedly, it sets up the story. Thirty-eight-year-old Sarah’s 11-year marriage has just broken up —...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 19, 2019 | Review
Act 1 is so boring that friends who left at intermission expressed their condolences when I told them I was staying. In Ursula Rani Sarma’s script, which is based on Khaled Hosseini’s novel, a young Afghani woman named Laila finds herself trapped in a nightmare...
by Colin Thomas | May 24, 2019 | Review
Matilda the Musical survives Daryl Cloran’s direction, even though he makes a good stab at bludgeoning it to death. The material itself is fantastic. Based on Roald Dahl’s 1988 novel, Matilda tells the story of a bright, sensitive little girl — whose parents despise...
