John Thomason

Film died and nobody cared. It was a deliberate, efficient, cancerous sort of death. George Lucas planted the first tumor in 2002 when he shot Star Wars: Episode II digitally, but the disease didn't begin to infect the more than 39,000 cinemas in the United States until 2010. The digital...

Whenever a character in popular fiction is named "Joy," you should assume there's some irony involved. She's probably destitute or depressed or mentally unstable or otherwise joyless. Such is the case with the lead character of Sean Grennan's recent play, The Tin Woman, a probing affair from this accessible chronicler...

For Michael Yawney, director of the one-man show PET at Miami Light Box at Goldman Warehouse this weekend, the most difficult question to answer is the most elemental: What is the show? "I think of it as a big cornucopia of stuff," Yawney says. "There's dance, there's music, it's funny,...

This St. Paddy's Day weekend, while much of Miami is celebrating Irish culture with green beer, shamrock decor, and Celtic rock, Mad Cat Theatre Company will offer a different Irish perspective: existential despair, traumatic recollections, and creaking ghost stories from the nation's chief export of the avant-garde, Samuel Beckett. For...

The adage “write what you know” has given the world more books about books, films about films and plays about plays than we could possibly need to illuminate the struggles of the creative process and the vagaries of show business. But after an exhilarating perusal of Terrence McNally’s It’s Only...