by Colin Thomas | Oct 1, 2022 | Review
On my trip to Benevolence, I started on a hill, then wandered through a valley. As I climbed the rise on the other side, I was surprised to find a startling view. Translation: I got bored in the middle of this show, but there’s such an excellent payoff that my...
by Colin Thomas | May 30, 2022 | Review
For me, the doorway to this production didn’t open until about halfway through. At that point, it became transcendent — intermittently. By the end, I was moved. In Katori Hall’s 2009 script, she imagines Martin Luther King Jr. in his motel room on April 3, 1968, the...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 27, 2022 | Review
It’s kind of like a horror movie with an obvious out — like “Why don’t they just call the cops?” In her 2011 script How the World Began, Catherine Trieschmann sets up an artificial conflict between the scientific and the religious. Susan has recently arrived in...
by Colin Thomas | Oct 2, 2021 | Review
I’ve never been more alert to shimmering life than in the weeks preceding my friend Len’s assisted death. Presence was the gift of their passing. That’s also the substance of Will Eno’s Wakey, Wakey, which is seamlessly well realized in Pacific Theatre’s production....
by Colin Thomas | Aug 6, 2021 | Review
Maybe the best way to see these two short scripts is as seedlings. In Gather: Stories in Nature, Shayna Jones and Cameron Peal both perform solo plays they’ve written about their relationships to the earth. In a (mostly) productive decision, their work is being...
