by Colin Thomas | May 31, 2024 | Review
I enjoyed myself at When We Were Singing. Beyond that, the analysis gets more complicated. Off the top, I want to thank the company for accommodating my schedule and letting me see this show in its first and only preview. To be clear, this cast had never performed in...
by Colin Thomas | Apr 5, 2024 | Review
Director Ron Reed’s production of The Trip To Bountiful is consistently tender and nuanced. It’s a thing of beauty. I encourage you to see it. In Horton Foote’s script, which premiered in 1953, Mrs. Carrie Watts engineers an escape from the cramped apartment in...
by Colin Thomas | Jan 24, 2024 | Review
This might sound hokey, but watching Gertrude and Alice made my insides feel like spring: I was filled with surprise and freshness. This script was created by a trio of playwrights: Anna Chatterton, Evalyn Parry, and Karin Randoja. In it, writer Stein and her life...
by Colin Thomas | Dec 15, 2023 | Review
This production is kind of like an old pillow: deliciously comfy sometimes but too often shapeless. Director Sarah Rodgers and her father Denis have adapted Dylan Thomas’s A Child’s Christmas in Wales, a poetic piece of prose that runs about 20 minutes if you speak it...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 24, 2023 | Review
The script is so bad. There are some okay elements in this production, but … have I mentioned how bad the script is? In The Last Wife, playwright Kate Hennig imagines the relationship between Henry VIII and his sixth wife, Catherine Parr, the only spouse who outlived...
