Cozy up to BANK HOLIDAY
PROVO — The Hive Collaborative continues its streak of producing excellent new plays. Their latest offering, Bank Holiday, is a cozy show that explores the Christmas season without falling into…
“God bless us, everyone” who sees HCTO’s A CHRISTMAS CAROL
OREM — “God bless us, everyone.” Tiny Tim’s famous closing line of A Christmas Carol is iconic in any stage adaptation of this most famous book by Charles Dickens. But…
SCERA’s ELF is a glass of syrupy Christmas spirit
OREM — The Christmas theatrical season has arrived, and (of course) nobody is more thrilled than Buddy the Elf. The overly enthusiastic character is on stage now in a nice…
THE DUCHESS OF MALFI deserves an audience
PROVO — Shakespeare has distorted your view of theatre. And I say that as an avowed “Shakespeare fanboy.” The Bard didn’t mean to warp modern audiences’ opinions. But Shakespeare’s work…
A soaring production of WITH TWO WINGS at BYU
PROVO — It only takes one or two productions of wide-eyed actors speaking condescendingly to children for adults to be turned off to theatre for young audiences. With Two Wings,…
THE PRICE is right at the Utah Shakespeare Fest
CEDAR CITY — Arthur Miller is best known for classics like The Crucible and Death of a Salesman. Lesser known is The Price, a brutally realistic family drama about the…
THE SEAGULL (disastrously) falls to earth
PROVO — About halfway through The Seagull, one of the characters attempts suicide, but the bullet grazes his skull, and he survives. D.A.M. Good Productions has mounted this important play,…
A delightful, down home MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM at UCT
SOUTH SALT LAKE — In 1662, the diarist Samuel Pepys wrote after seeing a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream that, “. . . it is the most insipid ridiculous…
Say “Bonjour!” to SCERA’s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
OREM — SCERA has mounted an ambitious production of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast to end their summer season. While the production did not live up to the show’s full…
Don’t bother with a trip ON GOLDEN POND
PROVO — Summer is a time for making memories, and family vacations, like the one in On Golden Pond, are an ideal setting. Unfortunately, On Golden Pond at the Covey…