“Come to the FUN HOME” at SLAC
SALT LAKE CITY — Winning five Tony awards in 2015, including best musical, Fun Home became Broadway’s first ever musical to feature a prominent lesbian lead. With music by Jeanine…
Hopebox’s DAMN YANKEES bats around and scores
KAYSVILLE — Whether you call it a 4-bagger, a tater, a dinger, or a homer, Hopebox Theatre has hit it. This production of the Faust story (with music and lyrics…
“Everything’s Golden” with Hale’s TUCK EVERLASTING
SANDY — Tuck Everlasting is the tale of a girl who discovers a spring of eternal youth in the woods behind her house. Based on the 1975 novel by Natalie…
Weber State’s CLASS OF ’94 stages a timely conversation
OGDEN — Director Jennifer Kokai, with the help of the Hurst Foundation, commissioned playwright Diana Grisanti to write a play that would premiere at Weber State University. This play, titled…
Director leaves Pioneer’s TWELFTH NIGHT adrift
SALT LAKE CITY — Taking my seats at Pioneer Theater for Twelfth Night, I saw a promising lovely model ship in the center of the stage. Surrounding the stage was…
Performances of adapted SIX CHARACTERS script still satisfy
PROVO — In Utah, theater companies proliferate like rabbits, and An Other Theater Company has just joined us, with a new production of Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of…
Sackerson’s ETIQUETTE explores communication in an unforgettable experience
SALT LAKE CITY – Advertised as an immersive experience for two, Etiquette is a theatrical experience like none other. Arriving at our table within the café, my husband and I…
Make yourself at home in BYU’s SINGLE WIDE
PROVO — Somewhere west of Steel Magnolia’s Louisiana, and south of Oklahoma! is a small Texas trailer park, where five strong women struggle to make a living and make sense…
A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE is a sight worth seeing
SALT LAKE CITY — When Arthur Miller‘s name is in the “byline” of a play, audiences can be assured of an evening of great writing, fascinating characters, introspection, and illumination.…
BYU’s MARY STUART shows the Tudors as bloody as ever
PROVO — Elizabeth I was not always “Good Queen Bess,” certainly not to her cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots, whose claim to the throne of England was at least as…