by Colin Thomas | Mar 18, 2018 | Review
I Lost My Husband is boring. Why waste time, talent, and money on it? In the story, Evelyn loses her spouse Peter in a bet with a bartender named Melissa. Peter, whom we never meet, obligingly moves right in with the younger woman. There are a couple of...
by Colin Thomas | Dec 17, 2017 | Review
Nobody likes to rain on a parade—especially not a Christmas parade—but the Gateway Theatre’s production of A Christmas Carol is so vacant that I have no choice. As Trump’s Republicans ruthlessly exploit the poor to increase their personal wealth, the relevance of...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 10, 2017 | Review
Probably the best thing about The Pipeline Project is that it’s a sincere invitation to dialogue. In this age of social media, so many are so eager to establish their political bona fides—and superiority—that it’s often impossible to have a vulnerable, complicated...
by Colin Thomas | Dec 12, 2016 | Review
It’s charming. It’s tightly produced. And it’s antique. Weirdly, The Music Man endorses lying. In Meredith Willson and Frank Lacey’s story for this musical, a con man who calls himself Professor Harold Hill arrives in River City, Iowa with plans to sell the townsfolk...
by Colin Thomas | Nov 18, 2016 | Review
There should be laws—similar to child labour laws—that prevent the overworking of metaphors. Playwright Peter Dickinson buries the heart of his play, Long Division, beneath a series of monologues that declare and develop the metaphor of mathematics so academically...
