ART & CLASS revisits a Utah conflict with strong performances
SALT LAKE CITY — How do you balance artistic ideals with community standards? When is a lesson plan an attack on a family’s values? These questions get raised in Plan-B…
Fall in love with Hale Centre Theatre’s DADDY LONG LEGS
SANDY — Let’s just get to the point. Kelly Coombs’s lead performance in Hale Centre Theatre’s Daddy Long Legs is towering. One of the best I’ve seen in a long…
Pink Neon’s SPRING AWAKENING is a streaming success
SOUTH JORDAN — It is likely no secret that I love shows like Spring Awakening, contemporary rock musicals that often feature themes of family drama, teenage angst, sexual repression, and…
THROUGH YONDER (car) WINDOW is an innovative, safe ROMEO & JULIET
SALT LAKE CITY — Through Yonder Window, the newest project produced by SONDERImmersive in Salt Lake City, is an interactive theatrical experience developed with Covid-19 in mind. With artistic direction…
IF THIS WALL COULD TALK highlights Utah women, past and present
SALT LAKE CITY — Pygmalion Productions’ newest offering, If This Wall Could Talk, is a 40-minute video that weaves together the stories of Utah women from both the past and…
Make it your quest to see SCERA’s SPAMALOT
OREM — SCERA’s production of Spamalot is so side splitting that describing it exhausts the English language’s supply of words that mean “funny.” Even the best thesaurus is inadequate to…
UVU’s CONSTELLATIONS plays out all the possibilities of life
OREM — More than a year into the Coronavirus pandemic, entering the Ragan Theatre at Utah Valley University for Constellations felt both uniquely strange and oddly familiar. The production, directed…
A TURN OF THE SCREW gets twisted up by technical glitches
PROVO — Throughout the story of The Turn of the Screw, there is a persistent question of whether the governess is seeing ghosts or losing her mind. While watching the…
HCT’S LES MISERABLES reminds us that in time “the sun will rise”
SANDY — What is there to say about Les Misérables that has not already been said? For starters (according to the theatre company), Hale Centre Theatre in Sandy, Utah, is…
BYU presents a fine PIRATES OF PENZANCE for the COVID era
PROVO — How do you fill a stage with two dozen actors when you’re not allowed to have more than four near each other? That’s the challenge presented to the…