Uneven script makes for a flat ASS at Pioneer Theatre Company
SALT LAKE CITY – What is the subject matter of a show called Ass? Who is the ass? Does it show an ass? Something to do with donkeys? While there…
Singers soar in Utah Opera’s THE BARBER OF SEVILLE
SALT LAKE CITY — The Barber of Seville, by Gioachino Rossini, is probably the greatest comic opera ever written. That is not just my opinion, but Giuseppe Verdi’s, as well,…
SWEENEY TODD hauntingly directed by Sweeney
WEST VALLEY CITY — When picking a show to see or produce around Halloween, you cannot go wrong with Sondheim’s amazing and horrific tale of Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber…
SONDERimmersive’s THE CHOCOLATIER is only semi-sweet
SALT LAKE CITY — Created by Graham Brown and company, The Chocolatier is “an immersive, dance-theatre experience” set in a yoga studio where a shared environment is created with the…
Snap up tickets to HCT’s THE MOUSETRAP
SANDY — It was a snowy and mysterious night full of intrigue and thrills inside of the Hale Centre Theatre‘s Jewel box theatre as I attended their production of Agatha…
Discover the meaning(lessness) of life while WAITING FOR GODOT
SALT LAKE CITY — “Why people have to complicate a thing so simple I can’t make out,” says Samuel Beckett of his 1953 classic Waiting for Godot. Nonetheless, consumers of…
AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’ is the fun musical revue I needed in my life
SALT LAKE CITY — 547 days. That is how long Pioneer Theatre Company went without a live, in-person production. Now, they’ve opened their doors with a stunning, must-see production of…
Hale’s THE SECRET GARDEN could use more light
SANDY — The Secret Garden has been enjoyed on the page, stage, and screen for over a century. Based on the children’s novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, the 1991 Broadway…
AIR PLAY is a joyful celebration of life
PROVO — For a year and a half Brigham Young University’s de Jong Concert Hall brooded in COVID-induced silence. Then into the darkness came the laughter of care-free children. Then…
Parker Theatre’s MUCH ADO is everything audiences could want
SOUTH SALT LAKE — The Parker Theatre may specialize in theatre productions for children, but their new production of Much Ado About Nothing is for audiences young and old. With…