Theatre Thursday: Coronavirus and Theatre
Note: Because the coronavirus situation is changing rapidly, some of the information in this post is outdated. Please see the current list of streaming, cancelled, and postponed productions in Utah.…
A moving and gorgeous SILENT NIGHT at Utah Opera
SALT LAKE CITY — It was the war to end all wars. World War I began over 100 years ago, but its effects live on all around us. It was…
Utah Opera’s LA TRAVIATA is un trionfo
SALT LAKE CITY — La Traviata, or “The Woman Who Strayed,” is a story overflowing with emotion and tragedy nestled in an intimate and straightforward plot. It is based on…
THE MAGIC FLUTE at the Utah Opera has “Bells and Whistles”
SALT LAKE CITY — In opera, you can’t do better than Mozart. Of course, the world of opera has Verdi and Puccini, and a handful of other brilliant composers, but…
ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE: COSTUMES FROM UTAH’S GREATS is dressed to the Nines
BRIGHAM CITY — Every year at the first of September, long before most people give it a thought, I sit my kids down and ask them one of the most…
Utah Opera’s THE LITTLE PRINCE is a prince of a production
SALT LAKE CITY — One can only imagine what was going through the heart and mind of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in the early 1940s as World War II raged in…
Utah Opera’s CANDIDE is a wacky spectacle
SALT LAKE CITY — Candide is indeed a many splendid thing. Endlessly rewritten and unquestionably unwieldy, it’s essentially a comedic operetta, and in the hands of the Utah Opera and…