Physical Comedy Soars in Payson’s CHARLEY’S AUNT
PAYSON — Charley’s Aunt is a three-act comedy set in 1892 at Oxford University. Jack and Charley are college graduates in love with two girls they just met the night…
BYU’s House of Desires Leaves Nothing Wanting
PROVO — The last time I was in the BYU West Campus Studio Theatre I was watching the simplicity of six teaching artists recreate Go Dog Go. This time, the…
An effortlessly good time at HCTO’s HOW TO SUCCEED…
OREM — How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is one of the shows with a reputation that many productions fail to live up to. One of the few…
Joy is Buzzing with EVERY BRILLIANT THING from Vicariously Staged
PROVO — It is a brilliant thing to see something that is as wonderful as it is new. On Friday February 16, I attended Vicariously Staged Productions’ first show, the…
ROMEO AND JULIET at Grassroots Gets to Its Roots
AMERICAN FORK — Theatre classics are classics for a reason. Certain plays, including most works penned by William Shakespeare, have gained their reputations from being performed year after year, by…
Covey Center’s SILENT SKY gives a voice to women astronomers
PROVO — The Covey Center for the Arts in Provo is presenting Silent Sky by Lauren Gunderson, directed by David Morgan. The show is in the facility’s Brinton Black Box,…
Get a Load of SCERA’s A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD
OREM — Arnold Lobel’s Caldecott Award winning book series about two anthropomorphic characters named Frog and Toad is about enjoying the simple things with a dearly beloved friend. The books…
BYU Arts’ BAUCIS AND PHILEMON is sure to grow in your heart
PROVO — It’s not everyday you get a world premier of a new opera. It’s also not everyday that you get a new chamber opera with such unique elements as…
Regalo Theater’s GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE is a mixed effort
LEHI — It is an understatement to say that the 2013 musical A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (from creators Steven Lutvak and Robert L. Freedman) killed it on…
Faulty direction makes HCTO’s THE FOREIGNER miss the point
OREM — Described on Instagram as an “uproarious comedy classic” that will make you “laugh till you cry,” Hale Center Theater Orem’s The Foreigner is marketed as a lighthearted, uplifting,…