by Colin Thomas | Dec 17, 2023 | Review
Maybe I caught a particularly rough performance of Carousel Theatre’s Snow White. At the Saturday matinee I attended, the audience was small and there were a lot of adults, which could partly explain why the show didn’t come close to generating the kind of runaway...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 12, 2023 | Review
“Is it going to be over soon?” is not what you want to hear when you take a kid to the theatre, but that’s what my partner was getting from his eight-year-old grandson during this production of Oz. I don’t blame the boy. I was wondering the same thing. Patrick...
by Colin Thomas | Dec 3, 2022 | Review
Absolutely the best thing about going to a kids’ show is that you get to take a kid. My friend Mathias, who’s six, accompanied my partner and me to Carousel Theatre’s production of Stiles & Drewe’s The 3 Little Pigs. Mati had never been to the theatre before and,...
by Colin Thomas | Feb 11, 2021 | Review
I’m glad I stuck around for the last two episodes of the three-part audio series Rishi & d Douen; they’re so much better than Episode 1. The story is about a nine-year-old named Rishi, who uses they/them pronouns according to Carousel’s press material. Like their...
by Colin Thomas | Dec 13, 2020 | Review
Carousel Theatre recommends this 30-minute audio play for kids who are three years old and up, but I can’t imagine any kid I know sitting still for it. I could barely manage. In Nom Nom Gnomes, Momoka, her nine-year-old son Taku, and his little sister Kyoko prepare a...
