by Colin Thomas | Jun 12, 2026 | Review
The best thing about Sophie’s Surprise 29th — and there are many excellent things about this six-person circus— is the vibe. Pumping party hits, mostly from the early 2000s, teasing and chatting up the audience — and commandeering some of its members — the company...
by Colin Thomas | May 9, 2026 | Review
Okay, let’s talk about the art and let’s talk about the context, including the protests. In Soldiers of Tomorrow, Israeli-born Vancouver theatremaker Itai Erdal tells the story of the political awakening he experienced during his three-year military service in the...
by Colin Thomas | May 1, 2026 | Review
About halfway through, Juliet & Romeo takes a turn that made me like it a lot more, although I was already having a good time with it. Conceived and directed by Ben Duke, and devised by Duke and Solène Weinachter, who were its original performers, this...
by Colin Thomas | Apr 17, 2026 | Review
Ambitious. Meditative. I loved it. The end of greatness is a cosmological concept that, in the words of writers Veda Hille and Maiko Yamamoto, theorizes “the point in the universe where everything stops being unique and starts being repetitive.” As I understand...
by Colin Thomas | Apr 13, 2026 | Review
After a quick synopsis, I’m going to talk about the things I love. There are lots of them. There will also be nuance, but this review is not going to take a sharp negative turn. As I see things, writer/director/composer/lyricist Cory Payette’s new musical On Native...
