Spend One Normal Night with Syracuse’s THE ADDAMS FAMILY
SYRACUSE — The Addams Family, normally done as a Halloween musical around here, was chosen by the Syracuse City Arts Council as their summer musical. With music and lyrics by…
Earnestly Enjoy USF’s THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
CEDAR CITY — The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde was first performed in 1895. Directed by Rodney Lizcano as part of this year’s Utah Shakespeare Festival, what is…
Friendship and Strength at USF’s STEEL MAGNOLIAS
CEDAR CITY — The play Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling started as a short story written by Harling to help him deal with the death of his sister. In the…
Learn to Love (and Murder?!) at the Utah Shakespeare Festival
CEDAR CITY — The Utah Shakespeare Festival is about so much more than Shakespeare, and this year’s offering of A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, directed by Amanda Berg…
Irreverent Fun at SLAC’s Secret Lives of the Real Wives
SALT LAKE CITY — In a tradition spanning almost 50 years, Salt Lake Acting Company is back with its summer show, this year titled The Secret Lives of the Real…
Utah to Broadway: Meet Andrew Joy of Maybe Happy Ending
It has been an exciting year in the world of theatre in New York. At one point, all 41 theatres that qualify to be called Broadway houses were had running…
Astonished and Surprised by Ziegfeld’s JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR
OGDEN — One of the best things about being a theatre critic is when you are completely surprised by a piece of work. Such was the case this weekend when…
Be Sure to Listen at Terrace Plaza’s School of Rock
WASHINGTON TERRACE — The musical School of Rock, based on the movie of the same name, opened on Broadway in December of 2015. With music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics…
A New Direction for Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre
LOGAN — As a proud alumnus of Utah State University, though my major was psychology, I minored in theatre and spent a lot of time in the arts departments in…
Try Something New With Ziegfeld’s Tootsie
OGDEN — In 2019 I had the privilege to see Tootsie on Broadway. As an organization, we have not been able to review it since, so when I learned the…