Something delightfully wicked brewing in Pinnacle’s MACBETH
SALT LAKE CITY — Shakespeare remains one of the most produced playwrights even after over 400 years. And Macbeth is probably…
Get acquainted with TWO NOBLE KINSMEN at the park
PROVO — Shakespeare. The name may send chills down your back – thrills of pleasure if you’re a fan, or shivers…
Start your summer theatre season with Grassroots’s MIDSUMMER
OREM — Shakespeare‘s script for A Midsummer Night’s Dream is so brilliant that—over 400 years later—any marginally competent cast can still…
NEXT FALL stumbles, thanks to a fumbling script
PROVO — Luke and Adam are a couple, living together in New York City. When Luke (played by Abram Yarbro) is…
A Tony Award for Best Musical triples a show’s likelihood of staying open
The Broadway theatre season ends this week, and soon the question on the mind of every fan is: Who will…
Visit CenterPoint’s CAMELOT for some “happily ever aftering”
CENTERVILLE — Arthurian legends have entranced people for hundreds of years, and the stories have been retold and adapted into countless…
Director leaves Pioneer’s TWELFTH NIGHT adrift
SALT LAKE CITY — Taking my seats at Pioneer Theater for Twelfth Night, I saw a promising lovely model ship…
BYU’s MARY STUART shows the Tudors as bloody as ever
PROVO — Elizabeth I was not always “Good Queen Bess,” certainly not to her cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots, whose claim…
Lessons learned from seeing 4 productions of ROMEO & JULIET
In the space of seven months—from July 2017 to February 2018—I have seen four separate stage productions of Romeo and…
ROMEO Y JULIETA at BYU gives a new spin to an old classic
PROVO — Romeo and Juliet is one of the most timeless plays ever written because of its focus on two…