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...
by Colin Thomas | Apr 9, 2022 | Review
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a show that’s run so hot and cold. There are elements and passages in Alberta Theatre Projects’ In Wonderland that are transporting — and long stretches in which nothing fires. In this two-act adventure, playwright Anna Cummer offers a...
by Colin Thomas | Feb 8, 2020 | Review
The motto of Young Jean Lee’s Theatre Company is “Destroy the audience!” and the Village Voice has crowned her “the queen of unease”. But Itsazoo’s production of Lee’s Straight White Men left me disappointingly untroubled and unimplicated. In Straight White Men, which...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 16, 2019 | Review
This play could have been more than it is. In Meghan Gardiner’s Gross Misconduct, Deke, who’s been in jail for a long time—and who, incredibly, seems to have had a two-bunk cell to himself for years—finds out that he’s got a cellmate all of a sudden: a young guy named...
