OMG! BRING IT ON dazzles despite shallow story
SALT LAKE CITY — What happens when High School Musical meets In the Heights? The answer is Bring It On: The Musical. Conniving cheerleaders, dumb jocks, the fat best friend,…
DIFFERENT=AMAZING uses children’s voices to address bullying
SALT LAKE CITY — Plan-B Theatre Company’s new play, Different=Amazing, is designed to provide students with realistic tools for coping with and addressing bullying. In just 40 minutes, two actors…
An innovative, but incoherent ROMEO & JULIET
SALT LAKE CITY — Romeo and Juliet, as penned by William Shakespeare, remains a constant of theater performance, attempted by many theatrical devotees and presented in a variety of lenses.…
Fall in love with PTC’s MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
SALT LAKE CITY — Shakespeare is hard to sell. Any director approaching a production of a Shakespeare play is faced with serious obstacles like making the story clear, relevant, and…
CLEARING BOMBS explores fiery subject of modern economics
SALT LAKE CITY — Seventy years ago, there was a viable chance that two extremely influential minds in the world of economics sat together on a rooftop waiting for a…
Fans and newcomers should enjoy Hale Centre Theatre’s LES MISERABLES
WEST VALLEY — I am sick of the musical Les Misérables. Having seen three other stage productions and the atrocious film adaptation, I have had enough of pathetic little Cosettes,…
Reality TV’s latest season of LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST
SALT LAKE CITY — New World Shakespeare Company’s production of Love’s Labour’s Lost creatively sets the action of the play within the context of a reality TV show. This modern…
XANADU is a cult classic full of laughter and fun
MAGNA — I’ve lived in Utah most of my life, yet I’ve never been to the Empress Theatre before. I was a bit apprehensive at first. However, when I entered…
GRANT & TWAIN provides insight into America’s history
SALT LAKE CITY – Salt Lake Acting Company’s world premiere of Grant & Twain, directed by Keven Myhre, is a dramatically charged look into the latter half of the nineteenth…
Fall in love with musical theatre with SHE LOVES ME
SALT LAKE CITY — Adapted by librettist Joe Masteroff from the classic film The Shop Around the Corner, the main story of She Loves Me centers on two coworkers in…