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...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 31, 2023 | Review
Hedda Gabler rides the tension between realism and melodrama. This United Players production gets that combo right enough of the time to provide a consistently intriguing, often impressive evening. Playwright Henrik Ibsen is known as the father of theatrical realism...
by Colin Thomas | Jun 4, 2022 | Review
Stylistically, Vietgone is a huge mountain to climb. This production only gets part way up. But it’s an interesting evening — and provocative in productive ways. Off the top, an actor impersonating the play’s author Qui Nguyen tells us that this script is definitely...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 26, 2022 | Review
There are several layers of experimentation going on here. Some of them work. A couple work splendidly. Playwright Lucas Hnath really does present A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay about the Death of Walt Disney as a public reading. Four actors file...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 18, 2021 | Review
For a long time, there is virtually nothing entertaining in this production of the comedy Amphitruo by the ancient Roman writer Plautus (254-184 BC). Then, in a kind of miracle, it gets very funny — and more or less stays that way. In the script, the god Jupiter lusts...
