If you only see one more play this year, see ERIC(A)
Every so often as you sit in the theatre you get a moment. The kind of moment that reminds you what true empathy is. All at once you understand a…
You may find yourself at SLAC’s GOOD PEOPLE
Salt Lake City — It’s likely that you know someone successful. They may be doing well financially, hold a position of great influence, or be admired by those around them.…
A premature 12 DATES OF CHRISTMAS
SALT LAKE CITY — Getting through the holidays can be a chore for the single, and even more so for the broken-hearted. Pygmalion Theater Company’s The 12 Dates of Christmas…
Fighting words at Plan-B’s NOTHING PERSONAL
SALT LAKE CITY — Heavy metal music blasts overhead while Susan paces the floor in soft circles. The music is cut by the occasional ringing of alarms pulsing. Susan stops,…
OTHER DESERT CITIES is a potent family drama
SALT LAKE CITY — Even people with glass houses have skeletons in their closets. Novelist Brooke Wyeth is overcoming a serious battle with depression in the best way she knows…
BRIGADOON doesn’t live up to Lerner and Loewe’s legacy
WEST VALLEY CITY — Brigadoon opens on Jeff and Tommy, two New Yorkers on a hunting trip in Scotland. After the two become lost in a thick fog, they stumble…
JEKYLL AND HYDE: A gripping Halloween adventure
MAGNA — The musical Jekyll and Hyde the musical opened on Broadway in 1997. Based on the novel written by Robert Louis Stephenson in 1886, the story has permeated modern…
RACE is jarring and powerful
SALT LAKE CITY — Black lawyer Henry Brown tells his potential client something to the effect of, “A black man can talk about race, a white man can not.” I…
FAME: the after school special of musical theatre
SALT LAKE CITY — Carmen sits a little right of center on the metal stairs leading to an upper platform. A few white lights cut through the dark at an…
STEADMAN & WALKER is a gory Halloween show
SALT LAKE CITY — The world premiere of The Hive Theatre Company’s Steadman & Walker (Zombie LLC) is among the most unique theater experiences I’ve had this year. And is…