UTBA reactions to Audra McDonald’s Utah concert series
PROVO — One of the hottest theatre events this year in Utah is the concert series by 5-time Tony winner (and living Broadway legend) Audra McDonald. Famous for her starring…
Ziegfeld Theater’s JOSEPH is fun for all
OGEDN — “Back by Popular Demand” reads the website advertisement for this production, and it is certainly true that Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is a very popular musical…
Strong leads and good directing create a memorable SPAMALOT
OGDEN — The Ziegfeld Theatre shows what good community should look like with its latest production of Spamalot. Though working with a small budget to put on a huge production…
STEEL MAGNOLIAS is an emotional rollercoaster worth riding
OGDEN — I grew up watching the movie adaption of Robert Harding’s Steel Magnolias, so I was familiar with the play going into the Ziegfeld Theater’s production. But despite the…
SEUSSICAL pleased visually, lacked depth
OGDEN — The Ziegfeld Theater debuts their first family musical of the season. The new theater, commonly referred to as “the Zig,” takes a change of course from their standard…
Fear and crowd politics in absorbing COMEDY OF OEDIPUS
OGDEN — “The truth is the truth because it is the truth.” Or so declares Tiresias, the blind prophet of Sophocles’s Oedipus Rex who serves as the narrator in this…
Foibles abound in THE WILL ROGERS FOLLIES
OGDEN — The Will Rogers Follies, book by Peter Stone, with lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and music by Cy Coleman, is a fascinating story of a man…
A lovely little ROMEO AND JULIET
SALT LAKE CITY — Each year, the Utah Shakespeare Festival (USF) fills patrons’ lives with wondrous professional theater, both classic and contemporary. They go above and beyond simply producing shows…
In Good Company with THE MOUNTAINTOP
OGDEN — There’s a new kid in town, and she wants the Ogden theatre community to sit up and take notice in a big way. Alicia Washington is the artistic…
The Zig’s NEXT TO NORMAL is anything but ordinary
OGDEN — The Ziegfeld Theater’s production of Next to Normal (music by Tom Kitt; books and lyrics by Brian Yorkey) has set the bar very high for theater in 2013.…