Lovers take Center Stage: Utah Shake’s WORDS CUBED Series
CEDAR CITY — One of the least known but most excellent theatre events in Utah happens each August as the Shakespeare Festival‘s summer season winds down. From hundreds of submissions,…
Double Delights at Meanwhile Park with VACATION and RED DEVIL
SUGARHOUSE — Meanwhile Park is a theatre venue unlike any other. The brain child of Jeff Paris, the 3-year-old company is hosted in the backyard of Artistic Director Jeff Paris…
New Works Meet Old Questions at USF’s WORDS CUBED
CEDAR CITY — The new play development series at the Utah Shakespeare Festival has existed for many years, and I have been lucky enough to participate in it many times…
Sanctuary’s THE FANTASTICKS Doesn’t Stick the Landing
WEST JORDAN — The Fantasticks is a lesser known, small-cast musical from 1960 headlined by a couple songs that have been stuck in the back of the American consciousness in…
New works series at Utah Shakespeare Fest are “gifts of rich value”
CEDAR CITY — Though the new play development series at the Utah Shakespeare Festival has existed for decades, it still feels like something of a secret to join a handful…
CANYON COUNTRY is a sentimental journey at Great Salt Lake Fringe
SALT LAKE CITY — Local playwright and actress Olivia Buck Smith brings multiple entries to this year’s Fringe Festival. In her Canyon Country seven characters get stranded overnight in a…
It’s a new DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD at the Salt Lake Acting Company
SALT LAKE CITY — Since sunsetting the decades-old title of Saturday’s Voyeur, a summertime send-up of all things Utah-Conservative, the annual Salt Lake Acting Company show still carries much the…
Effervescent EMMA THE MUSICAL is a win at the Utah Shakespeare Fest
CEDAR CITY — It was the year 2000 when the Utah Shakespeare Festival was awarded a Tony for outstanding work as a regional theatre. About that same time lyricist and…
ROMEO AND JULIET holds up well at the Utah Shakespeare Festival
CEDAR CITY — As the ever-patient Benvolio spoke the final words, “There never was a story of more woe that this of Juliet and her Romeo,” I could not help…
THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG is so right at Utah Shakespeare Festival
CEDAR CITY — Whether it was a high school production of Oklahoma! or your church’s last Christmas pageant, it is a truth universally acknowledged that bad community theatre, like death,…