by Colin Thomas | May 12, 2025 | Review
Here we go. Where to start? I watched this production three times over a 25-hour period. Here We Go is a short one-act (in three parts) by British playwright Caryl Churchill — about 45 minutes in total. Churchill is one of the smartest playwrights I’ve encountered,...
by Colin Thomas | May 2, 2025 | Review
A strange thing is happening to what is, to me, recent gay history: it’s being made holy. I’m thinking of director Joe Mantello’s TV version of playwright Mart Crowley’s 1968 script, The Boys in the Band, for instance. Mantello’s interpretation is an endless parade of...
by Colin Thomas | Apr 12, 2025 | Review
Dead Drone is one of the worst shows I’ve ever seen. And I’ve seen thousands of shows. It’s the writing. Even scripts this bad often start off with the best of intentions, of course. In Dead Drone, playwright David Mott takes on climate change, the toxicity of social...
by Colin Thomas | Apr 12, 2025 | News
Dead Drone is one of the worst shows I’ve ever seen. And I’ve seen thousands of shows. It’s the writing. Even scripts this bad often start off with the best of intentions, of course. In Dead Drone, playwright David Mott takes on climate change, the toxicity of social...
by Colin Thomas | Apr 4, 2025 | Review
It’s not terrible. That’s the best I can muster. Playwright and director Mieko Ouchi’s Burning Mom, which is based on her own mom’s experience, is about a 63-year-old Calgary woman named Dorothy, who heads off to Burning Man with her adult son Kevin and his pal...
