Parker’s Original SENSE AND SENSIBILITY is Alluring
SOUTH SALT LAKE — Whenever Jane Austen’s work comes to life on stage with its feelings of romance and situational drama, the joy of life permeates my soul. Parker Theatre…
A CABARET for Today at The Ziegfeld Theater
OGDEN — Since coming on the scene in Ogden, the Ziegfeld Theater pushes the envelope when it comes to entertainment in Utah. With a mix of family-friendly and more edgy…
TEN BRAVE SECONDS at PTC Is Worth Every Minute
SALT LAKE CITY—Theatre companies regularly produce the same safe and often tired crowd pleasing musicals, it is a testament to the bravery of Pioneer Theatre Company to produce the world…
Hop on Over to SCERA’s PETER RABBIT
OREM — It has been a couple of years since I’ve been able to attend a Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA) production at the SCERA Center for the Arts, as…
It’s a Privilege to See Cedar Valley’s URINETOWN
CEDAR CITY — As bleak as headlines may be at times in our modern day, we’ve yet to run into the trouble that Cedar Valley Community Theatre’s most recent production…
HCT Embraces Chaos in PETER PAN GOES WRONG
SANDY — Something will always go wrong in live theater, that’s half the fun. Forgotten lines, missed cues, broken sets, and technical disasters are not flaws of the art form,…
Musical Theater Melds with the Bard in SGMT’s KISS ME, KATE
ST. GEORGE — In the theater world, productions are often sorted into various genres: the musicals, the comedies, the dramas; while other times they are lumped together by the playwrights…
A BEAUTIFUL NOISE: THE NEIL DIAMOND MUSICAL is So Good at Eccles
SALT LAKE CITY — Broadway at the Eccles delivers exactly what the Utah premiere of A Beautiful Noise: A Neil Diamond Musical promises: a celebration of one of America’s most…
The Ruth’s Forever Plaid Delivers Nostalgia and Tight Harmonies
PLEASANT GROVE— On February 9, 1964, the world changed forever—at least for the fictional singing group known as The Plaids. Forever Plaid imagines the bittersweet fate of this four-man harmony…
Utah Opera’s, Fidelio, A Power House
I made up a saying decades ago: B.C.M.I.B. “Beethoven Can Make It Better!” And indeed he can. Utah Opera’s current offering is Beethoven’s only opera: Fidelio, first produced in 1805.…