A powerful and moving LES MISÉRABLES at PTC
SALT LAKE CITY – The songs and characters of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg’s Les Misérables are an underlying part of my life growing up. My family latched on to…
A “radiant” production of CHARLOTTE’S WEB
SOUTH SALT LAKE — I saw Charlotte’s Web with three of my delightful children, and they were nothing less than impressed. My six-year-old said, “It was great.” And my oldest,…
A BEHANDING IN SPOKANE is heavy on the dark, light on the comedy
SALT LAKE CITY — The Hive Theatre Company’s production of Martin McDonagh’s A Behanding in Spokane was for me a study in dichotomy, addressing the question of how I could…
Face America’s past with THE FACE OF EMMETT TILL
SALT LAKE CITY — Some of the most important stories are also the hardest stories to tell. The Face of Emmett Till is certainly one of those stories. And, thankfully,…
Hale Centre Theatre serves up classic comedy in NO TIME FOR SERGEANTS
WEST VALLEY CITY — No Time For Sergeants, based on the 1954 novel by Mark Hyman, has been enduringly popular, having been adapted into a teleplay, a comic book series,…
A NIGHT WITH one very violent FAMILY
SALT LAKE CITY — You know the feeling of landing at the airport in your home state on Christmas Eve. It’s like there’s gingerbread in the air. You feel like…
Salty Dinner Theater’s SHERLOCK HOLMES is elementary fun
LAYTON — Salty Dinner Theater’s most recent production and first-ever mystery, Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the “Violinist’s Beau,” is a Sherlock Holmes mystery investigating a murder committed early…
A revived, refreshed, and renovated WEST SIDE STORY
SALT LAKE CITY — How do you make a classic new again? That’s the challenge posed to every director of a classic play. It’s not an easy demand to meet…
SPRING AWAKENING is a breathtaking lesson in morality
SALT LAKE CITY — It is rare that a production comes together so flawlessly, where all elements work so in sync that the end result is breathtaking. Such was my…
Change course away from PETER AND THE PIRATES
SALT LAKE CITY — Theatre can be magic, but it usually is not. Although I enjoy most of the plays I see, the majority of evenings that I spend in…