by Colin Thomas | Jan 14, 2023 | Review
I had almost forgotten what helpless laughter feels like. It’s good for the soul. In Little Willy, marionette master Ronnie Burkett is working a new premise, using many of the familiar faces from his “repertory company” of puppets and even doing one of his most …...
by Colin Thomas | Nov 21, 2016 | Review
It’s immersive. There are so many compelling textures in Touchstone Theatre’s production of Brothel #9 that, watching it, you feel like you’re somewhere else. In Toronto playwright Anusree Roy’s script, a young woman named Rekha arrives in a rundown building in...
by Colin Thomas | Oct 22, 2015 | Review
As I write this, there are just a few seats left for the remaining performances of A Simple Space, the fantastic acrobatic show from Australia. A Simple Space closes this weekend. The last shows are on October 24. So go to the Cultch’s website right now and SNAP...
by Colin Thomas | Apr 22, 2015 | Review
When I attended Theatre Conspiracy’s Foreign Radical, my fellow audience members voted—virtually unanimously—to select me as the most suspicious person there. Maybe that was because I’m big and 30 years older than the rest of them, so I stood out, or maybe...
by Colin Thomas | Apr 3, 2015 | Review
I’m going to keep it short and sweet this week, folks: I’ve got two shows to recommend. At the Cultch, you have two more nights to catch Tawiah M’carthy’s Obaaberima, which is about a queer Ghanian-Canadian guy embracing the supposedly...
