Grassroots Shakespeare’s MERRY WIVES is a messy letdown
OREM — The Merry Wives of Windsor is an anomaly in the Shakespeare canon. The play is Shakespeare’s only domestic comedy, and it is the only one that takes characters…
Take the trip OVER THE RIVER AND THROUGH THE WOODS at HCTO
OREM — If a comedy features grandparents who shove food down people’s throats, mistakenly call a Blue-Ray machine a sting-ray, and take 5 minutes of long-winded discussion to answer a…
THE IMPRACTICALITY OF MODERN-DAY MASTODONS is good theatre
OGDEN — The Impracticality of Modern-Day Mastodons, by Rachel Teagle, is a play based on fantasy where all the characters can suddenly live their childhood dreams, which works well for…
ESCAPE FROM PLANET DEATH! mixes sci-fi and comedy on stage
PROVO — Science fiction plays are rare, likely because many of the genre’s staples, like laser guns and transporter devices, are hard to depict on stage. That has not stopped…
Don’t be a stranger to THE FOREIGNER in Spanish Fork
SPANISH FORK — In live theatre, expectations matter. If a theatre company builds up expectations too high, then a satisfactory production can feel disappointing. Several years ago, a theatre company…
Singers soar in Utah Opera’s THE BARBER OF SEVILLE
SALT LAKE CITY — The Barber of Seville, by Gioachino Rossini, is probably the greatest comic opera ever written. That is not just my opinion, but Giuseppe Verdi’s, as well,…
Let Heritage Theatre’s DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS steal your heart
PERRY — Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, the musical at the Heritage Theatre, directed by Leslie Richards, is an amusing farce. With plenty of scheming, backstabbing, and plot twists, this play had…
Come for a night of fun at SCERA’s THE DROWSY CHAPERONE
OREM — Utah has become enamored with the musical The Drowsy Chaperone in recent years, but I hadn’t seen a great version in this state until tonight. In fact, I…
YOU’RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN is a good night out in Tooele
TOOELE — As a child, I loved to spread out the Sunday’s newspaper comic pages out in the sunshine on the living room carpet, and I would always start with…
Ziegfeld’s 9 TO 5 is a catchy memo on female empowerment
OGDEN — Decades before the #MeToo movement, a group of Boston secretaries organized the “9to5 movement” in the 1970s to fight for better pay, more opportunities to advance, and to…