The University of Utah is good COMPANY
SALT LAKE CITY — The musical Company started out as eleven one-act plays penned by actor/playwright George Furth who planned for Kim Stanley to play each of the separate leads.…
Seeing it ONCE is not enough
SALT LAKE CITY — The musical Once, music and lyrics by Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová and now playing at Pioneer Theatre in Salt Lake City, is based on a…
Draper Historic’s SPITFIRE GRILL inspires
DRAPER — With a stormy blizzard on the horizon, the Draper Historic Theatre provided a warm and cozy venue for a musical that left me inspired. The Spitfire Grill, a…
FIRST DATE leaves audience with a great first impression
SALT LAKE CITY — I was lucky enough to get tickets for my husband and me to go to The Grand Theatre’s production of First Date on opening night, which…
THE CAKE is worth savoring
SALT LAKE CITY — You’ve seen the headline: ‘Bakery sued after refusing wedding cake for same-sex couple.’ National tempers are always stoked when morality runs up against legality. Playwright Bekah…
High praise for HANDS ON A HARDBODY
SALT LAKE — Hands on a Hardbody is a 2013 Broadway musical based on a documentary of the same name. The story follows ten contestants who are tasked with being…
No other show “quite as popular as” WICKED
SALT LAKE CITY — The latest and arguably the most popular production to grace the stage of the Eccles Theater this year is the touring production of Wicked, the musical…
Utah Opera’s THE LITTLE PRINCE is a prince of a production
SALT LAKE CITY — One can only imagine what was going through the heart and mind of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in the early 1940s as World War II raged in…
CHARLOTTE’S WEB at Utah Children’s Theatre is fun for all ages
SOUTH SALT LAKE — Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White is a classic children’s story for good reason: it is both heartwarming and heart-wrenching. It is the story of Wilbur, a…
A JANUARY THAW makes for a hot and cold night of theater
SALT LAKE CITY — It’s always fun to find a new theater and see a new kind of show, but it can also be like a box of chocolates (you…