by Colin Thomas | Nov 24, 2023 | Review
Just a simple family meal with a frog (Photo by Augusto Meza) I’m grateful to every artist who takes on climate change and there are striking elements in Pippa Mackie’s script. Overall, though, Hurricane Mona is a mostly unfunny comedy and its structure sucks. That...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 11, 2022 | Review
Especially if you’re over 50, don’t bother with this play; you don’t have that much good time left. Jason Sherman’s new script Ominous Sounds at the River Crossing; or, Another Fucking Dinner Party Play is funny — but only for about the first ten minutes. After that,...
by Colin Thomas | Dec 4, 2021 | Review
On opening night, several people told me that they enjoyed Touchstone Theatre’s production of Adam Grant Warren’s new play Lights. I did not. I’m going to lay out my reasons, not because I’m trying to suck the pleasure out of anybody’s experience, but...
by Colin Thomas | Nov 2, 2019 | Review
Jan Derbyshire’s Certified is pretty much perfect. And how often do I get to say that? Certified is about Derbyshire’s journey with mental illness and mental health, but it’s not one of those stories that collapse into the horrors of madness. Derbyshire allows herself...
by Colin Thomas | Oct 23, 2017 | Review
The storytelling in Happy Place could be more focused and compelling, but some of the play’s content pierces to the heart of the current cultural moment and the cast is stellar. In Happy Place, playwright Pamela Mala Sinha takes us to an upscale inpatient treatment...
