comedy

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…