Salt Lake Shakespeare’s MIDSUMMER mashup is too messy
SALT LAKE CITY — A Midsummer Night’s Dream is probably the most performed of Shakespeare‘s comedies. It is still very funny and accessible for modern audiences and seems custom made…
Herriman creates a “big, bright, beautiful” SHREK
HERRIMAN — “It’s a big bright beautiful world!” sings Shrek in the opening of the eponymous Shrek The Musical. And it’s hard to find a more appropriate set of words…
WICKED is luminous and inspiring
SALT LAKE CITY — A villain, generally speaking, is a fictional person of bad reputation who stands between the hero and his/her goal. Every kid knows the hero is good,…
A very shaky FIDDLER ON THE ROOF from Windstorm
MURRAY — Fiddler on the Roof is arguably one of the best known and loved Broadway musicals ever since its premiere in 1964. The 1971 film adaptation added to the…
SATURDAY’S VOYEUR is SNL in SLC
SALT LAKE CITY — “Product of their time” was the key phrase in Salt Lake Acting Company’s annual production of Saturday’s Voyeur—Mumpsimus the Musical. Updated with 2014 “Mormon Issues,” the…
A Nice Evening With THE ADDAMS FAMILY
MAGNA — The Addams Family started as a single panel comic in the New Yorker magazine drawn by Charles Addams, was later adapted to a television show, an animated cartoon,…
THE LAST FIVE YEARS at the Babcock Theatre is captivating
SALT LAKE CITY — The Last Five Years, presented by Salt Lake Shakespeare at the U of U’s Babcock Theatre, is a production full of honest and captivating moments. Lead…
MARY POPPINS soars at the Hale Centre Theatre
WEST VALLEY CITY — There is a scene in both the movie and the stage production of Mary Poppins wherein the title character pulls a series of large objects out…
CALAMITY JANE is a hilarious Old West comedy
MURRAY — The last time I attended a show at the Desert Star, I was in high school. Therefore, my memory of the facility was sketchy at best. When we…
Strong performances and tight direction compensate for an imperfect script in RINGS
SALT LAKE CITY–Truth and lies, guilt and innocence, justice and mercy, and right and wrong get tangled up in the “rings” of life in this courtroom drama, based on an…