Take your “honey bun” to SCERA’s SOUTH PACIFIC
OREM — South Pacific takes place at a critical time during World War II. America is fully engaged in the war, but the nation and its allies have yet to…
P.A.R.C.’s CINDERELLA lacks magic
LEHI — The story of Cinderella is one that most are familiar with. A poor orphaned girl forced to live under the watchful and spiteful eye of her evil stepmother…
An unfulfilling reinvention of OKLAHOMA! at the West Valley Hale
WEST VALLEY CITY — Producing a classic play can be a challenge for theatre artists. An inherent tension exists between the creative impulse to do something new and audience members’…
Utah Festival Opera presents the best of the classics with CAROUSEL
LOGAN — The Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theatre has a history of producing some great works of theatre that draw hundreds of patrons every summer. The festival brings to…
“This Nearly Was” a great SOUTH PACIFIC
CEDAR CITY — I will likely be exiled from the United States after my pronouncements in this review for two reasons. The first: this was my first time seeing South…
Shout “Yeeow!” for Utah Festival Opera’s OKLAHOMA!
LOGAN — Oklahoma! was the first musical that the very popular team of Rodgers and Hammerstein created together, and through the years it has been the subject of critical acclaim,…
CINDERELLA is a nice fit for the SCERA, but not perfect
OREM — Cinderella’s Fairy Godmother sings, “Impossible things are happening every day,” this message has instilled hope in many a young girl who wished to go to the ball and…
Something good is happening at Centerpoint’s SOUND OF MUSIC
CENTERVILLE — I am a sucker for the musical theater genius team Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein who revolutionized contemporary theater and created what became known as “the musical play”…
Puppet SOUND OF MUSIC gives fans a memorable experience
PROVO — Unlike so many productions of The Sound of Music, the title song of the Salzburg Marionette Theatre’s production does not have a Maria twirling with her arms outstretched…
Utah Rep’s CAROUSEL hits highs and low’s of life
MURRAY — I first heard about Utah Repertory Theater Company when an old theater friend liked the new company on Facebook. Their profound goals to start a semiprofessional theatre company…