Email Author John Thomason

2011 Stories by John Thomason

• "All My Sons" at Palm Beach Dramaworks: An Arthur Miller Classic Retains Its Relevance in a Glittering New Theater

  published November 24, 2011

  If there had been an Occupy movement in post-World War II America, the fictional character Joe Keller in Arthur Miller's All My Sons... More >>

• "Lombardi" at Mosaic Theatre: A "Sopranos" Star Revives a Paragon of Pigskin

  published November 17, 2011

  The miniature locker room off to one side of Mosaic Theatre's stage looks every bit like a museum piece, festooned with Super Bowl pennants,... More >>

• Disharmony in Norway

  published November 10, 2011

  A Danish couple, escaping city life after one of them commits infidelity, moves to the Norwegian countryside next door to an insecure couple whose... More >>

• "After the Revolution" at the Caldwell: When Politics and Family Collide

  published October 27, 2011

  Ben Joseph, the lead character in the Caldwell Theatre's After the Revolution, is a fascinating specimen. An academic, dyed-in-the-wool... More >>

• Apocalypse Now

  published September 22, 2011

  The best compliment I can offer Kevin Smith's new movie, Red State, is that it feels nothing like a Kevin Smith movie -- which is to... More >>

• The Times, They Are a-Changin’

  published July 7, 2011

  The astounding documentary Page One: Inside the New York Times provides an unprecedented all-access look into the inner sanctums of... More >>

• Copying an Art-House Throwback

  published April 28, 2011

  What happens when everything a filmmaker tells us about his characters is suddenly turned on its head? This is the dilemma that viewers of Abbas... More >>

• Meandering Toward a Mystery

  published April 21, 2011

  Set in the burgeoning hipster enclave of Portland, Oregon, Cold Weather is a Sherlock Holmes-style detective movie funneled through... More >>

• Salute Your Shortz

  published March 31, 2011

  Will Shortz pretty much lives crossword puzzles. The editor of the esteemed New York Times crossword puzzle, the puzzle master for... More >>

• "Salam Rugby" Serves as a Good Start to This Year's Women's International Film & Arts Festival

  published March 24, 2011

  Talk-show host Bill Maher believes that the way we live in the West is not just different from life in the Muslim world — it's better.... More >>

• "Ghost-Writer" at Florida Stage: Where Hyphens Really Mean Something

  published March 17, 2011

  Was the new play Ghost-Writer really written by Michael Hollinger, as its credit states, or was it penned by Strunk and White? A... More >>

• "Grey Gardens: The Musical" at Rising Action Theatre Resurrects Cult Kin With Ramshackle Charm

  published March 10, 2011

  At first glance, the 1975 documentary Grey Gardens is among the films you would have least expected to be adapted into a Broadway... More >>

• The Caldwell Theater's "Next Fall" Wonders What Happens When God Doesn't Love You Back

  published March 10, 2011

  Michael Hall, the Caldwell Theatre's founder and executive director emeritus, returns to direct his first production for the company since he... More >>

• Like Father, Not Like Son

  published March 10, 2011

  Christopher Buckley is the spawn of an endangered species: the principled, polysyllabic right-winger. His famous father, William F. Buckley... More >>

• "A Bearded Lover" at the Promethean Theatre: Three Sisters in Need of a Pulse

  published March 3, 2011

  In the second act of A Bearded Lover, Lucia, the youngest sister in this three-character opus, delivers one of the play's most telling... More >>

• "The Irish Curse" at Mosaic Theatre: When Men Confront Their Endowment Issues

  published February 24, 2011

  Consider the opening scenario of An Irish Curse: A priest, a jock, a fat man, a gay man, and an Irish immigrant walk into a church... More >>

• Must (Really) Love Dogs

  published February 24, 2011

  There has perhaps never been a more deceptively innocent movie tagline than My Dog Tulip’s: “The story of a man who rescues a... More >>

• When in Roam

  published February 17, 2011

  Nothing Personal is art-house cinema at its most esoteric: ignored by most, adored by few, screened by fewer. Czech-born director... More >>

• The Art of Recycling

  published February 10, 2011

  Recently nominated by the academy for Best Documentary Feature, Waste Land shadows a recent project of Brazilian art phenom Vik... More >>

• Magic Kingdom

  published February 3, 2011

  So far as we know, David Blaine has never made headlines denouncing God, and David Copperfield has never bruited objectivist philosophy. But... More >>

• "Sex and Violence" at Empire Stage Is Accidentally Entertaining

  published January 27, 2011

  Nothing in Empire Stage's production of Sex and Violence is as provocative or outlandish as the image on the playbill: a naked man in... More >>