Mortal Fools Theater Project got it right with ‘The Glass Menagerie’
PROVO — I read the basic synopsis before going to see The Glass Menagerie: a fatherless family living in 1937’s St. Louis. I was expecting to see something about the…
Pioneer Theatre Company’s ‘Our Town’: No Ordinary Show
SALT LAKE CITY — Even though we have spent our lives being involved in theatre, and even though Our Town is the most produced play of all time, we both…
Youth Theatre at the U: ‘James and the Giant Peach’
SALT LAKE CITY — I found myself feeling young at heart this evening surrounded by a sea of excited youth and their parents to be entertained by a children’s favorite…
Modern Re-telling of Greek at The Grand: ‘Eurydice’
The term ‘it’s all Greek to me’ had to come from somewhere, right? Even with my ability to recognize such names as Zeus and Hades (thanks to Percy Jackson) a…
Love Italiano at WSU’s LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA
OGDEN — All I knew going in was that this was a musical that had a lot of Italian. Forget about enjoying the story and learning new melodies. I was…
Beautifully Layered ‘Blood Wedding’
PROVO — Do you remember that painting of Salvador Dali with the melting clocks? What about Rene Magritte’s Son of Man with the green apple in front of the man’s…
‘Nunsense’ Scandalously Hilarious
PLEASANT GROVE — Bigger isn’t always better as the Pleasant Grove Players proved with their performance of Nunsense. Though part of a community theater, the show earned its place among…
‘If You Give A Mouse A Cookie’
OREM – When you go to a play or a movie where there are only adults present in the audience, the simple humor or puns are often overlooked as each…
One night with two men named ‘Wallace’
SALT LAKE CITY — Wallace will host its world-premiere tonight at Plan B Theatre Company. The play interweaves two one-act plays about two, distinct individuals. Both were named Wallace. Both…
Finding ‘Beauty’ off the beaten path
SALT LAKE CITY — When you have the opportunity to venture a little ways off the beaten path of professional theater in Utah I hope you take it. Most of…