The Weight of Silence: The World Premiere of THE BIG QUIET
SALT LAKE CITY — On February 21st Morag Shepherd’s The Big Quiet, premiered at the Rose Wagner Center in Salt Lake City. This play is a restrained yet powerful meditation…
Talented The PRINCE OF EGYPT at HCT Plagued by Poor Adaptation
SANDY — Directed by Dave Tinney on the Centre Stage at Hale Centre Theatre, The Prince of Egypt: The Musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and book by…
ASSASSINS a Timely and Sincere Attempt at the Sanctuary
WEST JORDAN—The Sanctuary Theater Company is a little theater that is not afraid of a big show. Assassins, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by John Weidman, and…
All the Beauty at Pioneer’s Beautiful the Carole King Musical
SALT LAKE CITY — Beautiful: The Carole King Musical first opened on Broadway in January of 2014. King herself wrote or cowrote over 118 hits, so making a jukebox musical…
Things Are Found at SLAC’s The Robertassey
SALT LAKE CITY — For the weeks leading up to seeing Salt Lake Acting Company or SLAC’s opening show of 2025, I would pronounce the show I was seeing as…
West Valley Arts’s PLAY THAT GOES WRONG Gets Everything Right
WEST VALLEY CITY – After a brief closure scare last year, the 2025 season at West Valley Arts comes out of the gate better than ever with The Play That…
Parker Theatre’s PERSUASION Admirable If Not Totally Persuasive
SOUTH SALT LAKE — “Persuasion” is one of only six novels that luminary 19th century writer Jane Austen wrote in her life. Published after her death, a new adaptation is…
OBT’s GREECE IS THE WORD is a Funny Throwback
SALT LAKE CITY — The Off Broadway Theater Company successfully brought music, myth, and mayhem to their new location at Alliance Theater in Trolley Square with their opening night performance…
THE BOOK OF MORMON at the Eccles is Wholly Unrestrained Comedy
SALT LAKE CITY – Playing to a Salt Lake City audience at the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Theater downtown must be simultaneously unnerving and exhilarating for the cast…
The Question of Elegance in Little Women at Hale Sandy
SANDY — Little Women combines all the things I love: classic novels of historic times with female heroines combined with slightly more modern musical theatre scores. Based on the work…