A puppet Potter Christmas
OGDEN — A Fairly Potter Christmas Carol is a Ziegfeld Theater tradition in Ogden. A parody that “borrows” (or as one character points out “we stole that too!”) from A…
AN IDEAL HUSBAND at BYU is not an ideal streaming production
PROVO — It is an understatement to say that An Ideal Husband, produced by BYU, was technologically impaired. Though I appreciate the effort of the actors and technicians to put…
Strong cast lifts A CHRISTMAS STORY at the SCERA
OREM — A Christmas Story: The Musical is part of a trend on Broadway in the past 20 years of turning popular movies into musicals. Given the financial risks of…
A spirited version of A CHRISTMAS CAROL at HCTO
OREM — Holiday traditions provide families with an anchor of stability year after year, and never have people needed stability more than during the coronavirus pandemic. The creative team and…
SOMETHING TO CRY ABOUT is something important to think about
PROVO — An Other Theater Company’s latest streaming production is Something to Cry About, an original devised work by Shelby Noelle Gist and Dorsey Williams. Directed by Gist, the short…
DESPERATE CROSSING & LETTERS FROM CUBA exposes immigrants’ plight
PROVO — Brigham Young University’s staging of Manual for a Desperate Crossing and Letters from Cuba is the most innovative production I have ever seen. With a striking, timely message…
Interactively dream at SONDERimmersive’s THE CAROUSEL
SALT LAKE CITY — As you step into the interactive theatrical experience that is The Carousel by SONDERimmersive at Dreamscapes, an art exhibit housed at the Gateway in downtown Salt…
ILLUSIONARY TALES: spooky stories at their staged best
PROVO — One of the few good things to come out of the pandemic is experimental theater, and BYU’s Illusionary Tales has done a great job of finding a way…
THE NIGHT WITCHES succeeds with flying colors
SALT LAKE CITY — I’ve missed theatre. I haven’t felt brave enough to attend a production during the current health climate. Recently, however, I had the opportunity to review the…
Little ones can discover themselves via THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH
OREM — “Many things are possible as long as you believe they’re not impossible.” That’s one of the lessons of The Phantom Tollbooth, an adaptation of the Norton Juster novel…