With AIDA, the Hale creates a spectacular debut in new facility
SANDY — Last Thursday night, I attended the grand opening gala for the new Hale Center Theatre in Sandy City. It…
Accessible Shakespeare in the Grassroots TWELFTH NIGHT
OREM — Grassroots Shakespeare Company continues to do what it does best: provide entertaining and well-executed productions of Shakespeare’s work in a…
This MAMA is Complex and Real
SALT LAKE CITY — Plan-B Theatre Company’s production of MAMA directed by Jerry Rapier asks the question “How do you…
The Empress Theatre has a delightful SHREK THE MUSICAL
MAGNA — Shrek The Musical far surpassed my expectations for the DreamWorks film-turned-Broadway musical. The script basically takes all the best…
Plan-B’s “Season of Eric” has strong closing with 3
SALT LAKE CITY — Plan-B Theatre Company’s ongoing mission to bring socially conscious and locally relevant plays to Utah audiences…
CLEARING BOMBS explores fiery subject of modern economics
SALT LAKE CITY — Seventy years ago, there was a viable chance that two extremely influential minds in the world of…
Fighting words at Plan-B’s NOTHING PERSONAL
SALT LAKE CITY — Heavy metal music blasts overhead while Susan paces the floor in soft circles. The music is…
All aboard for laughs at ANYTHING GOES
MAGNA — If laughter is the best medicine, Cole Porter’s Anything Goes should be widely prescribed. Though the Empress Theatre’s…
The ECCENTRICS fits the bill
SALT LAKE CITY — Maxim Gorky’s The Eccentrics opens on Dacha, a summer house in Russia. It’s 1910 and the nation…
Great direction with ADAM & STEVE AND THE EMPTY SEA
SALT LAKE CITY — Walking into the Studio Theatre it’s impossible to avoid looking up. A giant tree of hammered-together planks…