PYG’s BECKY NURSE OF SALEM Sheds Light on A Disturbing Past
SALT LAKE CITY – PYGmalion Productions’ Becky Nurse of Salem by Sarah Ruhl tells the story of Becky Nurse, a woman living in the shadow of her descendant Rebecca Nurse…
Clue in to Clue Live On Stage! at the Eccles
SALT LAKE CITY — I never know what to expected when I attend a theatre production based off of a film. Is it going to be better or worse? Totally…
New TVY Company Makes a FRIENDLY UNIVERSE for Littles
SALT LAKE CITY — People are strange. New people are so odd that we call them strangers. For young children, the universe is full of things that are new, strange,…
Meddling, Music, and Marriage: EMMA shines at West Valley
WEST VALLEY CITY — Walking into the West Valley Performing Arts Center for Kate Hamill’s Emma, I wasn’t entirely sure what I was going to get. I’m an avid reader…
SLAC’s SUNNY IN THE DARK Is Out of This World
SALT LAKE CITY — Elaine Jarvik’s new play Sunny in the Dark opened with a big bang of its own on the Salt Lake Acting Company (SLAC) stage on February…
Parker’s Original SENSE AND SENSIBILITY is Alluring
SOUTH SALT LAKE — Whenever Jane Austen’s work comes to life on stage with its feelings of romance and situational drama, the joy of life permeates my soul. Parker Theatre…
HCT Embraces Chaos in PETER PAN GOES WRONG
SANDY — Something will always go wrong in live theater, that’s half the fun. Forgotten lines, missed cues, broken sets, and technical disasters are not flaws of the art form,…
A BEAUTIFUL NOISE: THE NEIL DIAMOND MUSICAL is So Good at Eccles
SALT LAKE CITY — Broadway at the Eccles delivers exactly what the Utah premiere of A Beautiful Noise: A Neil Diamond Musical promises: a celebration of one of America’s most…
Utah Opera’s, Fidelio, A Power House
I made up a saying decades ago: B.C.M.I.B. “Beethoven Can Make It Better!” And indeed he can. Utah Opera’s current offering is Beethoven’s only opera: Fidelio, first produced in 1805.…
Forever Only Lasts Five Years at The Hart Theater Company
SALT LAKE CITY—Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years is a storytelling marvel—a musical with very limited dialogue, only two performers, and a 90-minute run time that somehow feels expansive,…