ELF THE MUSICAL’s script is “in the way” of CenterPoint’s cast
CENTERVILLE — In what is sure to become a regular in the Utah Christmas theatre scene, CenterPoint Legacy Theatre opened a production of Elf the Musical, written by Thomas Meehan…
Christ is in Christmas at HCTO’s A CHRISTMAS CAROL
OREM — It’s been years since I have seen A Christmas Carol at Hale Center Theatre in Orem, and this season’s production, directed by Jerry Elison, was even better than…
DISTANCE OF THE MOON waxes and wanes
SALT LAKE CITY — The best way to describe the story of The Distance of the Moon is as a modern myth for adults. Like an ancient Greek myth, the…
Cast fails to make me fall in love with BIG LOVE
Big Love plays at the Babcock Theater on University of Utah campus thru Nov 18th at 2pm and 7:30pm. Tickets are $18 and can be purchased at https://tickets.utah.edu/events/big-love.
A beaming production of RADIUM GIRLS at BYU
PROVO — When women working at a factor in New Jersey start falling ill, the cause seems mysterious. Doctors blame poor hygiene, infectious disease, and bad luck. When the true…
Utah Opera’s CANDIDE is a wacky spectacle
SALT LAKE CITY — Candide is indeed a many splendid thing. Endlessly rewritten and unquestionably unwieldy, it’s essentially a comedic operetta, and in the hands of the Utah Opera and…
Cast of RUTHLESS! is “born to entertain”
OGDEN — Weber State University’s latest production is the musical Ruthless!, a musical with a mostly female cast (with music by Marvin Laird and lyrics by Joel Paley). It was…
Westminster flunks out of THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL
SALT LAKE CITY — The current Westminster College production of The School for Scandal is perfectly encapsulated by an exchange between two characters: Joseph Surface: Maria, I see you have…
So much to savor in Pioneer Theatre’s SWEENEY TODD
SALT LAKE CITY — After twenty years, the musical thriller Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street has returned to Pioneer Theatre Company, this time directed by Karen Azenberg.…
Let BYU’s THE MOUSETRAP snatch you up
PROVO — As the Vincent Price-esque voice welcomed the audience to the theater at BYU’s Pardoe Theatre, I knew I was in for a fun-filled evening. One of BYU’s Department…