by Colin Thomas | Jan 25, 2026 | Review
It’s exhilarating to see somebody colouring outside the lines for a change. Aaron Bushkowsky’s new play, The Replacement Wife, is a reality-bending comedy about marriage, death, and the fickle nature of love. Its pieces didn’t come together for me in a substantial way...
by Colin Thomas | Nov 3, 2018 | Review
Aaron Bushkowsky’s new script Red Birds is flat-out dumb and—very occasionally—funny. It’s tricky to talk about this play without giving away major plot points, but I’ll do my best. In Red Birds, Carol, who has just turned 50, contacts her birth mother Hannah for the...
by Colin Thomas | Nov 18, 2017 | Review
What a wasted opportunity. Foreign home ownership in Vancouver is a huge and complicated issue. With its threads of racism, self-righteousness, entitlement, greed, and privilege, it’s ripe for theatrical treatment. But, in his new script, Satellite(s), playwright...
by Colin Thomas | Nov 20, 2016 | Review
Playwright Katey Hoffman continues to be one of the most exciting new voices on the local theatre scene: not everything about Green Lake works, but a lot of it does and the script is as original as all hell. With Cheyenne Mabberley, Hoffman wrote The After After...