Solid script, intriguing story save 12 ANGRY JURORS
CENTERVILLE — The setting is a deliberation room for the citizens serving on jury for a murder trial to discuss and argue a teenage boy’s fate. As the jury enters,…
Grassroots Shakespeare’s MUCH ADO is really something
PLEASANT GROVE — Thinking back on my Saturday night at Discovery Park, I realize now that my expectations were hinging on unrealistically high for Grassroots Shakespeare Company’s production of Much…
“Journey On” to see RAGTIME
WEST VALLEY — “It was the music of something beginning.” That’s how Lynn Ahrens‘s lyrics describe ragtime, the first American music style that became popular internationally. Born in the communities…
Catch the STARLIGHT EXPRESS straight to Tuacahn
IVINS — In bedrooms across America, young boys ignore their mothers’ admonitions to put away their toys and go to bed. On stage at Tuacahn Amphitheatre, Mom (Jennifer Evans) interrupts…
No spoonful of sugar necessary to enjoy MARY POPPINS
IVINS — Thousands of miles away from where the show ran on Broadway and in London, the Tuacahn amphitheatre presents Mary Poppins as perhaps only a red rock amphitheatre can.…
A visually beautiful TARZAN in Orem
OREM — Adapted from the original Disney film, Tarzan: The Musical, brings Edgar Rice Burroughs’s classic coming-of-age story to the outdoor SCERA Shell Theater. In the story, a father and…
I enjoyed my NIGHT AT THE WAX MUSEUM
MAGNA — What do you get when you take a crew of underachieving high school students, a lovers’ quarrel, a family-owned wax museum, an evil landlord, and a cursed Egyptian…
Can’t take my eyes off of JERSEY BOYS at the Capitol Theatre
SALT LAKE CITY — If you like jukebox musicals along the lines of Abba’s Mamma Mia!, Billy Joel’s Movin’ Out, and Green Day’s American Idiot, Jersey Boys, now playing at…
A WRINKLE IN TIME explores old ideas, spaces in a new way
PROVO — My memories of Madeline L’Engle’s novel A Wrinkle in Time are inseparably connected to that period in my life when I discovered the magic of the written word.…
Fun and games with Utah Repertory Theater’s WHAT THE BELLHOP SAW
MURRAY — Just a bit of silliness, really. That’s what the farcical play, What the Bellhop Saw (written by Billy Van Zandt and Jane Milmore), has to offer. Nothing too…