It’s OK to sluff SCHOOL OF ROCK
SALT LAKE CITY — What does a 71-year old theater legend with a knighthood and $902 million net worth do? Whatever he pleases, that’s what. And in 2015, it pleased…
Promising cast devoured by plant at Draper Historic Theatre
DRAPER — Like its featured creature, Little Shop of Horrors is a strange beast: a combination of a late-’50s monster-of-the-week flick and an ’80s B-movie camp, featuring a jive-talking, man-eating…
PTC’s CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY is shallow fan fiction
SALT LAKE CITY — Whatever happened to Mary, the bookish middle sister in Pride and Prejudice? This season, Pioneer Theatre Company is offering a glimpse into her future with Miss…
Double Christmas pleasure with AMAHL and A CHRISTMAS CAROL
SALT LAKE CITY — How many crippled boys can be miraculously healed through the magic of Christmas? On the stage of the Grand Theatre, the answer is two per night.…
Utah Opera’s CANDIDE is a wacky spectacle
SALT LAKE CITY — Candide is indeed a many splendid thing. Endlessly rewritten and unquestionably unwieldy, it’s essentially a comedic operetta, and in the hands of the Utah Opera and…
Let UCT’s SECRET GARDEN into your Heart
SOUTH SALT LAKE — “Hope you’re ready to cry,” the box office lady said as she handed us our tickets. She was right. The Secret Garden at the Utah Children’s…
Hale’s PIMPERNEL is on par
SANDY — Average citizen by day, dashing hero by night. Some people credit the Scarlet Pimpernel as the original super hero—and quite a well-dressed one, like if Bruce Wayne ever…
Classic songs pop in the Grand’s MARVELOUS WONDERETTES
SALT LAKE CITY — Do you like music from the ’50s and ’60s? Then the Grand Theatre has the show for you: The Marvelous Wonderettes. It’s the story of a…
“Everything’s Golden” with Hale’s TUCK EVERLASTING
SANDY — Tuck Everlasting is the tale of a girl who discovers a spring of eternal youth in the woods behind her house. Based on the 1975 novel by Natalie…
Let’s all go to BUSYTOWN!
SOUTH SALT LAKE — Busytown is the kind of rare kid’s show that both adults and young’uns can enjoy equally. With high-quality music, great acting, and an avalanche of laughs,…