by Colin Thomas | Mar 29, 2026 | Review
This show won me over, but it took a while. The problems I had aren’t with the production, which is excellent, but with the script — although the source material is astonishing. Playwright Kat Sandler drew inspiration for Wildwoman from the fifteenth-century history...
by Colin Thomas | Dec 14, 2025 | Review
Annie is the Gateway’s Christmas show, so let’s say this pudding is tasty sometimes, but also pretty lumpy. Stylistically, director Josh Epstein’s production is inconsistent — and that’s partly because, stylistically, Annie is a tricky musical. Based on the comic...
by Colin Thomas | Apr 19, 2025 | Review
Jane Austen’s novels are known for their wry wit and nuanced observation of gender and class among the landed English gentry in the late eighteenth century. Kate Hamill’s stage adaptation of Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is more like… a cartoon? A panto? A very long...
by Colin Thomas | Dec 16, 2023 | Review
Director Johnna Wright’s production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella does what it sets out to do extraordinarily well. It’s entertaining, well produced, and moving. This is despite some stiff odds. Rodgers and Hammerstein originally wrote Cinderella for...
by Colin Thomas | Dec 17, 2022 | Review
Anne of Green Gables: The Musical is brainless but chipper and Gateway Theatre’s polished production includes a couple of remarkably strong performances. In case you don’t know the story, the musical is based on L.M. Montgomery’s 1908 novel. Marilla and Matthew...
