A storm of fun is brewin’ at Grassroots Shakespeare’s THE TEMPEST
PROVO — Theatre is purest when it is done for the love of it. For the past 14 years, Grassroots Shakespeare Company is a non-profit troupe that has been jovially…
Crack a smile at NUNCRACKERS with the Pleasant Grove Players
PLEASANT GROVE — Most audiences are used to entering a theater, kicking back in their seats, and getting lost in a story. In fact, as a reviewer, I usually judge…
ART at An Other Theater is thoughtful, but feels monochromatic
PROVO — Most people do not understand abstract modern art; everyone else pretends they do. That could be the thesis of Art, a play written in French by Yasmina Reza…
PLEASANT GROVE rock opera is visceral and painfully relevant
WEST VALLEY CITY — Pleasant Grove is an exciting piece of theatre that its creators have been developing since the 1990s. Set in our own Utah Valley in the 1970s,…
There’s a little treasure buried in Cobb & Co’s TREASURE ISLAND
SPANISH FORK — When Robert Louis Stevenson published Treasure Island in 1883, he probably did not foresee the number of adaptations his novel would spawn over the next century and…
High Valley Arts SOUND OF MUSIC is grand theatre in the mountains
MIDWAY — What would it be like to hear Maria sing, “The hills are alive,” while surrounded by the beautiful mountains she is praising? Watching The Sound of Music at…
Tragedy mixed with triumph in THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY at Tuacahn
IVINS — In the past three years alone, film has imagined the lives of Aretha Franklin, (Respect), Freddy Mercurcy (Bohemian Rhapsody), Elton John (Rocketman), and Elvis Presley (Elvis). Broadway has…
Bow down to the 50th anniversary tour of JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR
SALT LAKE CITY — Jesus Christ Superstar first conquered the stage in 1971. Subsequent revivals have dotted the globe and affirmed the supremacy of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s rock score and…
MAMMA MIA! at AFCT is more spectacle than story
AMERICAN FORK — If I am driving in the car with people of various music tastes, the surest way to please the crowd is to put on ABBA. Their music…
Take the trip OVER THE RIVER AND THROUGH THE WOODS at HCTO
OREM — If a comedy features grandparents who shove food down people’s throats, mistakenly call a Blue-Ray machine a sting-ray, and take 5 minutes of long-winded discussion to answer a…