11 stories by "Patrick Thomas"
"Football isn't a contact sport. It's a collision sport."
It's a dazzling production and well worth the trip to Petaluma.
Unfortunately, this production—despite the best efforts of the star of 6th Street Playhouse, Taylor Bartolucci—has fallen into a crevasse from which there is no rescue.
... if you get thyself to the somewhat-rustic Forest Meadows Amphitheatre on the campus of Dominican University in San Rafael, you can rediscover for yourself why this love story (if a roman…
"If the rich aren't happy—who will be?" It's a good question Wendy Wasserstein asks in Old Money, one of her later plays (first produced a dozen years after The Heidi Chronicles) and one t…
It's a curious balance Gallegos has—the ability to present an adolescent mind with a professional's storytelling skills. A balance that will last but a brief time. Like this run. So get yo…
Even though verisimilitude is not really the point of the new Ross Valley Players production of Journey's End, now playing at the Barn Theatre in Ross, director James Dunn does a brilliant j…
Composer Henry Mancini and lyricist Leslie Bricusse have provided a couple of great up tempo numbers ("Le Jazz Hot" and "Chicago, Illinois") and the book by Blake Edwards has an actual plot …
When a theater company decides to take on this monster of a show, they had better—like a mountaineer hoping to climb Everest—be prepared with the right team, the right equipment and the …
... if you love musical theater enough, you can probably push those aside and revel in the magic of songs such as "Almost Like Being in Love" and "Come to Me, Bend to Me" and leave the moder…
The play veers wildly from one extreme to another. One moment it's wisecracking and sardonic, and in the next, dripping with pathos.
