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…
So much to savor in Pioneer Theatre’s SWEENEY TODD
SALT LAKE CITY — After twenty years, the musical thriller Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street has returned to Pioneer Theatre Company, this time directed by Karen Azenberg.…
LET THE RIGHT ONE IN leaves nothing out
PROVO — Utah loves Halloween shows, hence the bountiful options available for the next few weeks. Perhaps something about the crisp fall air makes huddling into a theater to feel…
Let your kids cuddle up to THE VELVETEEN RABBIT
OREM — She’s a stuffed rabbit who loves her owner and lives in a playroom with toys that come alive when people aren’t around. The Velveteen Rabbit is the original…
Good Company’s EURYDICE ponders the important questions in life (and death)
OGDEN — Eurydice is a Greek mythical character married to Orpheus that experiences an untimely death, but whose story continues beyond the grave as her husband travels to the underworld…
HOW I BECAME A PIRATE is a real treasure
OREM — Yo ho, scalawags! The SCERA be producing How I Became a Pirate through November. And it’s a show that landlubbers of all ages can enjoy without spending many…
Let UCT’s SECRET GARDEN into your Heart
SOUTH SALT LAKE — “Hope you’re ready to cry,” the box office lady said as she handed us our tickets. She was right. The Secret Garden at the Utah Children’s…
The Zig’s ADDAMS FAMILY is more than just “one normal night”
OGDEN — The Addams Family, a 2010 Broadway musical based on the eponymous characters known in comic strips, TV shows, and movies, was written by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice,…
Hopebox’s SCARLET PIMPERNEL buoyed by its strong cast
KAYSVILLE — Based on the novel published in 1905 by Baroness Orczy, the musical version of The Scarlet Pimpernel, with a book by Nan Knighton and music and lyrics by…
THE ADDAMS FAMILY has no snap
DRAPER — The Addams Family is a side tickling adaptation of the old comic strip and TV show with book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice and music and lyrics…