THE WIZARD OF OZ with plenty of heart at the SCERA
OREM — The Wizard of Oz, everyone’s favorite story about a head injury, has returned to the SCERA stage in an enjoyable production that serves the script (adapted by John…
AN ILIAD brings the Homeric tradition into the 21st century
CEDAR CITY — As one of the fundamental stories of Western literature, The Iliad has entranced audiences for centuries. In a reimagined adaptation entitled An Iliad, the Utah Shakespeare Festival…
Here’s the truth: THE LIAR is a flop
CEDAR CITY — The Utah Shakespeare Festival’s new fall production, The Liar, is so inherently flawed that I cannot imagine a worthwhile production of this play even being possible. Not…
CURIOUS INCIDENT lives up to hype at An Other Theater Company
PROVO – Buzzing with recent West End success, as well as winning the 2015 Tony Award for Best Play, the up and coming An Other Theater Company has chosen to…
Become attached to Orem Hale’s DADDY LONG LEGS
OREM — Happiness is found in the small and simple things, or so opines the plucky heroine Jerusha in Hale Center Theater Orem’s latest offering. As she says in this…
A perfectly pleasant PETER PAN at the Hopebox
KAYSVILLE — Recently one of my friends asked me if there were any popular shows that I had not seen, and my first answer was that I had never seen…
“Consider yourself” lucky to see the Ziegfeld’s OLIVER!
OGDEN — Oliver! is the popular Lionel Bart musical based on the classic Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist. The Ziegfeld Theater in Ogden has brought this story to life under…
Terrace Plaza’s SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN is as “fit as a fiddle”
WASHINGTON TERRACE — When looking back to the Golden Age of the huge Hollywood musical, few performers spring to mind ahead of Gene Kelly, and few movies burst into bigger…
THE TEMPEST is like a warm summer breeze at the Fringe
Reniassance Now Theatre & Film's The Tempest: O Brave New World is part of the Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival and plays various dates and times through August 12. For…
Believe in the PRINCE OF EGYPT adaptation at Tuacahn
IVINS — The story of The Prince of Egypt is a familiar one, built on the foundations of a biblical story. Most people have some knowledge of Exodus, and the…