by Colin Thomas | May 12, 2018 | Review
Tolkien feels like academic Christian fanfiction. If that’s your thing, by all means go for it—all three acts and almost three hours of it. In his new script, playwright Ron Reed explores the friendship between J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings) and...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 24, 2018 | Review
Emotionally, Bar Mitzvah Boy is a sweetly stealthy play. It takes a while for the script to find its feet. In the set-up, we find out that Joey, a successful divorce lawyer, wants to be bar mitzvahed before his grandson is. Somehow, Joey missed out on the ceremony...
by Colin Thomas | Feb 23, 2018 | Review
In An Almost Holy Picture, Samuel Gentle delivers a monologue about his relationship with his daughter Ariel. Samuel is such a bad parent that I wanted to stab him. To make matters worse, he is a bad parent in a very obvious way. The moral of the story and the action...
by Colin Thomas | Dec 1, 2017 | Review
Almost, Maine is like the world’s best greeting card: it’s very, very clever, charming, and thin. In the nine scenes of John Cariani’s script, we meet as many sets of lovers, would-be lovers, and former lovers. Aside from the couple who appear in the framing device,...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 17, 2017 | Review
The Christians: if you’re not Christian, what’s in this play for you? Not a lot in terms of moral complexity. But a fair bit in terms of theatricality. In Lucas Hnath’s script, Pastor Paul is the leader of a gigantic evangelical congregation: his church has thousands...
