CORIOLANUS provides the chills (and a thoughtful evening)
PROVO — Coriolanus may be William Shakespeare‘s final tragedy. The story, set in ancient Rome, centers around a city plagued with famine, a soldier who rises in politics, and the…
WAR OF THE WORLDS is simply world class
PROVO — Some people, when they hear the title War of the Worlds may think of one of a variety of media adaptations of H. G. Wells’s famous science-fiction novel,…
Call on the Orem Hale for HELLO, DOLLY!
OREM — Dolly Levi is back where she belongs: on the Hale Center Theater stage in Orem. One of the last great musicals of the golden age of Broadway, Hello,…
An Other has a strong debut with VANYA…AND SPIKE
PROVO — There’s a new theatre company in town. An Other Theater Company is peeking over the horizon of the Provo theatre scene and, from seeing their first production, the…
Put SCERA’s NOISES OFF on your calendar
OREM — One of the most enduring farces in modern theatre is Noises Off. Playing in the early 1980’s on the West End and Broadway, and revived on the Great…
Ancient Greeks get a modern twist in Westminster’s ION
SALT LAKE CITY — It’s not often that we get to see Greek theatre here in Utah, so Westminster College’s annual Classical Greek Theatre Festival is always treat. I’ve had…
Enjoy a marvelous evening of PILLOW TALK
OREM — Pillow Talk, played at the Hale Center Theater in Orem, was a delightful experience. The movie was adapted to a play by Christopher Sergel, and this performance was…
“From this day on,” plan to see SCERA’s BRIGADOON
OREM — With a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner with music by Frederick Loewe, Brigadoon tells the story of Tommy Albright and Jeff Douglas, two American tourists who…
Covey Center’s MURDER BY THE BOOK falls short
PROVO — Murder by the Book, written by Duncan Greenwood and Robert King, directed by Reese Purser and performed at the Covey Center for the Arts in Provo, might have…
Yeehaw! Sundance’s JOSEPH…DREAMCOAT is a fun hootenanny
SUNDANCE — I’ve never quite understood the phenomenon behind Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. While Andrew Lloyd Webber‘s music and Tim Rice‘s lyrics are catchy, the show always felt…