by Colin Thomas | Mar 20, 2015 | Review
You can see some of the best acting in the world in Vancouver; you just have to show up for it. If you want to see a young actor at the top of her game, go see Lindsey Angell Jespersen in Iceland at Presentation House. In this smart script about capitalism, playwright...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 6, 2015 | Review
It’s rich, Vancouver: I have three shows to recommend this weekend. At the top of my list is Cadre, which runs at the Cultch until Sunday (March 8). It’s about the impact that the anti-apartheid struggle had on one revolutionary. The show starts off...
by Colin Thomas | Oct 17, 2014 | Review
The best shows running this weekend are both American classics: The Rainmaker and Our Town. The Rainmaker’s script is odd: naive and sophisticated at once. It’s the poetry that makes that combo work—that and Pacific Theatre’s elegant, warmhearted...
by Colin Thomas | Jun 25, 2014 | Review
If we ever needed a reminder of why we shouldn’t take the Jessies too seriously, all we have to do is look at this year’s awards in the large-theatre stream. As I launch into this, let me make it clear that I am NOT knocking the awards that anybody got:...
by Colin Thomas | Oct 26, 2011 | Review
The best show in town right now is Re: Union at Pacific Theatre. Amazingly, it’s playwright Sean Devine’s first produced play. He based it on a historical incident from 1965, in which a young Quaker protesting American involvement in the Vietnam War,...
