by Colin Thomas | Feb 22, 2026 | Review
Watching Act 1, I felt like I was trapped in my seat listening to a golden oldies station that I could not turn off. Act 2 is better. Musically and theatrically, this is all about accumulation or the lack of it. Let’s be clear off the top: every member of the...
by Colin Thomas | Nov 14, 2025 | Review
It takes too long to land but this production does, finally, make it home. Robert Chafe’s script, Between Breaths, is a meditation on death and joy, confinement and freedom, as embodied in the experience of real-life academic and conservationist Jon Lien. Lien, who...
by Colin Thomas | May 24, 2025 | Review
The pay-off is great. A solo show — and memoir — written and performed by Michelle Thrush, who’s Cree, Inner Elder is about the artist’s journey towards self-realization as an Indigenous woman. Raised mostly by her dad, Thrush felt an absence where she wanted her...
by Colin Thomas | May 3, 2025 | Review
In Act 1 of The Frontliners, playwright Zahida Rahemtulla’s storytelling is so unfocused it feels like nothing happens. Against all odds, Act 2 improves. The Frontliners is about an office force of three. Working for the fictional Canadian Newcomer Agency, their job...
by Colin Thomas | Feb 14, 2025 | Review
Style is a tricky thing. There’s a bunch of it in playwright Frances Koncan’s Women of the Fur Trade, but director Donna Spencer and her cast don’t always know what to do with it. In Women of the Fur Trade, it’s “eighteen hundred and something something” and we’re...
