A FLEA IN HER EAR: a fascinating farce
SALT LAKE CITY – Chuck Jones, the animator behind the golden era of Warner Brothers cartoons, said, “Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual…
THE SORCERER’S APPRENTICE is fun for the family
SOUTH SALT LAKE — The Children’s Theatre of Salt Lake is settling into its new home in South Salt Lake, and is continuing to provide family entertainment while they stretch…
A lovely little ROMEO AND JULIET
SALT LAKE CITY — Each year, the Utah Shakespeare Festival (USF) fills patrons’ lives with wondrous professional theater, both classic and contemporary. They go above and beyond simply producing shows…
KICKING THE HOBBIT is a big, nerdy in-joke
MURRAY — Desert Star Playhouse is known for its satirical, slapstick, musical renditions of popular movies, books, and plays. As a recent fan of J.R.R. Tolkien’s books, I was rather…
THE CRUCIBLE still resonates today
OREM — The Crucible, as penned by Arthur Miller in 1953, is given apt resonance in UVU’s most recent production of this American work. Directed by D. Terry Petrie, I…
Hear THE VOICE OF THE PRAIRIE for yourself
SALT LAKE CITY — The Grand Theatre’s production of The Voice of the Prairie under the direction of John Caywood brings to the stage a complex plot featuring over a…
In Good Company with THE MOUNTAINTOP
OGDEN — There’s a new kid in town, and she wants the Ogden theatre community to sit up and take notice in a big way. Alicia Washington is the artistic…
The Zig’s NEXT TO NORMAL is anything but ordinary
OGDEN — The Ziegfeld Theater’s production of Next to Normal (music by Tom Kitt; books and lyrics by Brian Yorkey) has set the bar very high for theater in 2013.…
Gimme a show like HAIR!
SALT LAKE CITY — The reason live theater is such an enduring and beloved art form is that there is something deeply resonant about shared experience. So powerful is the…
Lead actresses keep SIDE SHOW together
PROVO —It is human nature to have one’s attention drawn to something unusual. And nothing quite captures “unusual” like conjoined twins. In an individualistic culture like America’s, the idea of…