Direction makes HENRY V falter at the Utah Children’s Theatre
SOUTH SALT LAKE — Theatre is the most collaborative art; even the most basic shows require the creative input from several people. That is why it is remarkable when a…
Be enter-tamed by Utah Childen’s Theatre’s TAMING OF THE SHREW
SOUTH SALT LAKE — I keep coming back to the Utah Children’s Theatre’s Shakespeare Festival for Kids and Adults with Short Attention Spans. Having reviewed this festival’s productions since 2013,…
Drag yourself to Ziegfeld’s LA CAGE AUX FOLLES
OGDEN — The Ziegfeld Theater has shown with past productions its ability to take on interesting material and make it right for the Ogden audience. This production of La Cage…
Weak dialects muddy strong acting in THE WITNESS
SALT LAKE CITY — In the spring of 1994, the Hutu majority government perpetrated a mass genocide against the Tutsi people of Rwanda, leaving 500,000 to 1,000,000 dead. Vivienne Franzmann’s…
Lehi’s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST is magical family fun
LEHI — Beauty and the Beast from the Lehi City Arts Council at Willowcreek Middle School is a wonderful, magical production that’s perfect for families. The show is exciting and…
Run to see HCTO’s delightful SEE HOW THEY RUN
OREM — Fewer scripts evoke a feeling of complete chaos than See How They Run by Philip King. It is a hilarious, fast paced farce involving mistaken identities, a couple…
Utah Shakespeare Fest’s JULIUS CAESAR has nothing to fear
CEDAR CITY — It is a season of changes and transitions for the Utah Shakespeare Festival as they move into the new Beverley Taylor Sorenson Center for the Arts. One…
MURDER FOR TWO is “a perfectly lovely surprise”
CEDAR CITY — At the Utah Shakespeare Festival, the audiences are used to “murder most foul” on the stage. But what is more unusual at the Festival is when a…
A beautiful BEAUTY AND THE BEAST at Hale Centre Theatre
West Valley City – Beauty and The Beast is a tale most are already familiar with. Belle, a beautiful girl, lives in a small French village with her inventor father.…
Gather ’round to hear the tale of Joe Hill in ONE BIG UNION
CEDAR CITY — The Utah Shakespeare Festival has produced staged readings for years, but this year marks a transition from the former New American Playwrights Project to the new Words…