by Colin Thomas | Sep 9, 2024 | Review
Bruce Ryan Costella, who wrote and is performing Muttnik, is a gifted writer and actor: those things are givens. In Muttnik, he tells a story inspired by Laika, the stray dog who, for the sake of research, was rocketed into space by the Soviet Union in 1957 with just...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 8, 2024 | Review
Tokyo puppeteer Yanomi Shoshinz is a charmingly openhearted performer, but I was only engaged by about half of her material. Happy Go Lucky consists of four puppet routines and Shoshinz starts with the weakest. In it, a Janus-faced female puppet engages in a series of...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 8, 2024 | Review
In her solo bouffon show, Sabrina Wenske looks fantastic. Playing Baba Yaga, the witch of Slavic folklore, she wears an enormous straw headdress, and her painted-on moles are ghoulish blue. Her abundant energy is wicked and promises danger. “You are so cute with your...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 8, 2024 | Review
The Fringe provides a place for emerging artists to show their work, so good for young actors Samantha Kerr and Hikari Terasawa for writing their own script and performing it at the Fringe. To be blunt, Bitches with Baggage wasn’t rich enough to sustain my interest,...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 7, 2024 | Review
Ti Malik Coleman’s opening performance at the Vancouver Fringe was a love fest, and I’m one hundred percent certain that’s going to continue for the rest of the run. That’s partly because, from the opening seconds of this stand-up/storytelling routine, you can tell...
