FARNDALE TOWNSWOMEN put on hilarious spin on MACBETH
SALT LAKE CITY — As I walked into The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society’s Production of Macbeth, I was handed a raffle ticket along with my program…
THE RIGHTEOUS and VERY REAL HOUSEWIVES OF UTAH COUNTY: very real and sometimes righteous
SALT LAKE CITY — Mormons. That buttoned-up, straight-laced, hard right bunch of religious zealots who become increasingly more conservative as one zeroes in on Utah County. In The Righteous and…
All-male THE TAMING OF THE SHREW is a delight
OREM — I’ve said before that I’ll never pass up a chance to see a Grassroots Shakespeare Company show, and my enthusiasm only grew stronger after seeing their production of…
A NIGHT WITH one very violent FAMILY
SALT LAKE CITY — You know the feeling of landing at the airport in your home state on Christmas Eve. It’s like there’s gingerbread in the air. You feel like…
UVU’s counterfeit MIKADO misfires
OREM — Few artists’ works are as timeless as Gilbert and Sullivan’s. Gilbert’s blend of comedy and rhyme make his lyrics a delight, and Sullivan’s alternatingly jaunty and just-plain-lovely tunes…
UVU’s THE IMAGINARY INVALID is an evening well spent
OREM — It never ceases to amaze me that Molière’s plays are still ridiculously funny, even after being translated from four-hundred year-old French. And when I say “funny,” I don’t…
The ECCENTRICS fits the bill
SALT LAKE CITY — Maxim Gorky’s The Eccentrics opens on Dacha, a summer house in Russia. It’s 1910 and the nation is in the brief pre-Communism, post-serfdom phase of its…
THE FANTASTICKS has all the fixings of a good production
DRAPER — This was my first time seeing The Fantasticks, and it only took me a few minutes to understand why it’s such a staple of community theater. Tom Jones’s…
THE ZION CURTAIN was OK, but disconnected
SALT LAKE CITY — The set for The Zion Curtain was no more than three chairs. Two of the three actors, Jacob Lewis and Napsugar Hegedus, wore just white t-shirts…
PLAID TIDINGS from the netherworld
MIDVALE — The basic premise for Plaid Tidings is that a four members of a close-harmony guy band who died tragically in a car accident in the 1950’s have come…