The SPITFIRE GRILL serves up some fine performances
PLEASANT GROVE — There’s a room in the basement of the Pleasant Grove library that’s been converted into a tiny theater. There are maybe eight rows of seats, the ceiling…
Grand Theatre provides moments in the woods with INTO THE WOODS
SALT LAKE CITY — Right about the time the Baker’s Wife (Stephanie Purcell) and Cinderella’s Prince (Doug Irey) started their song “Moments in the Woods,” I really got lost in…
A thrilling case of DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE
PROVO — The biggest compliment that I can give Mortal Fools Theatre Project’s production of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (currently playing at the Echo Theatre) is that I am…
Wasatch’s COMPLETE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE is lethargic, flawed
SALT LAKE CITY — I’ll admit it. I was selfish when I saw that The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged) was on UTBA’s reviewing calendar again. I snatched up the…
THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL strikes again!
CENTERVILLE — The Scarlet Pimpernel is a classic story that has had several stage, movie, and musical adaptions. The story revolves around Percy Blakeney, an English aristocrat who is about…
BLITHE SPIRIT leads make for a charming haunt
PROVO — “I’ll go and see anything so long as it amuses me, or moves me. If it doesn’t do either I want to go home.” —Noel Coward The above…
Hale makes message of SOUTH PACIFIC hit home
OREM — Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musicals are beloved all over the United States, but I believe they are also widely misunderstood. I know people who think that The Sound of…
The Hive’s WHO ARE YOU? leaves many questions, few answers
SALT LAKE CITY — As a playwright and a theatre teacher, I am always excited to see new work. Saturday night at the Sugar Space was no exception, as I…
Weber State’s CHARM lives up to its name
OGDEN — Margaret Fuller was one of the Concord, Massachusetts, Transcendentalists. She was editor of The Dial, a journal to which Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Nathaniel Hawthorne…
I wouldn’t date BOB JUAN CASANOVA
MIDVALE — Bob Juan Casanova is a self-guided tour of the title character’s love life starting with junior high in 1999 and proceeding to the present day. Addressing the audience,…