A brilliantly sung PIRATES OF PENZANCE at UFO&MT
LOGAN — One hundred and thirty-eight years after its 1879 New York City premiere, Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Pirates of…
Personality abounds in Lyric Rep’s THE FOREIGNER
LOGAN — Charlie Baker tries to adapt to a new environment and find the perfect method to avoid conversation with…
All aboard for HOW LONG CAN YOU STAND ON THE TRAIN TRACKS
SALT LAKE CITY — Recently I was at a theatre conference that talked about how the new art that comes…
REX should have stayed retired
LOGAN — Back in 1976, Richard Rodgers penned Rex, what was to be one of his final musicals, with a libretto…
Utah Shakespeare’s GUYS and DOLLS is a safe bet
CEDAR CITY — For readers’ musical theatre needs, I’ve got the horse right here, and it’s the Utah Shakespeare Festival…
The Off-Broadway Theater’s A NIGHT AT THE IMPERIAL is a flop
SALT LAKE CITY — A Night at the Imperial, written by one of the theater’s own Cody K. Carlson, is a…
Little to love in the latest JUANITO BANDITO installment
GARDEN CITY — I got my first taste of Juanito Bandito when I headed north to Pickleville Playhouse last summer,…
Pickleville’s SHREK is fun, but just short of fairy tale magic
GARDEN CITY — What started as the DreamWorks animated film Shrek in 2001 transferred to Broadway in 2008 in a re-imagined…
Sugar Factory Playhouse opens a memorable CURTAINS
MIDVALE — Curtains is an amusing and witty musical within a musical, produced by Sugar Factory Playhouse and West Jordan…
Theatre criticism in the digital age: Dispatch from ATCA 2017
SAN FRANCISCO — Several years ago I found Utah Theatre Bloggers Association, and was so excited to get the chance to…