comedy

OGDEN — There are times that a show comes along that you think can’t possibly live up to either memories of past productions or of a production that you have…

OREM — “I only have to trick one person into marrying me.” That’s how in my years as a single man I would console myself when I felt lonely. Of…

LOGAN — Oklahoma! was the first musical that the very popular team of Rodgers and Hammerstein created together, and through the years it has been the subject of critical acclaim,…

CEDAR CITY — “Shakespeare wrote musicals?” I heard on my way to lobby at intermission. “Why yes, yes he did,” I thought cheekily. Modern audiences sometimes forget that Shakespeare’s works…

SALT LAKE CITY — A Midsummer Night’s Dream is probably the most performed of Shakespeare‘s comedies. It is still very funny and accessible for modern audiences and seems custom made…

HERRIMAN — “It’s a big bright beautiful world!” sings Shrek in the opening of the eponymous Shrek The Musical. And it’s hard to find a more appropriate set of words…

GARDEN CITY – I have a serious problem. Having now seen two Pickleville Playhouse productions of Juanito Bandito, I think I need a mustache. With how much I’m enjoying these…

CEDAR CITY — I have never adapted a novel into a stage production, but I imagine it must be a difficult process. Becausee most audiences aren’t interested in six plus…

CEDAR CITY — Mistaken identity runs rampant in Shakespeare‘s The Comedy of Errors, a farcical romp that is given new life in director Brad Carroll‘s wild west interpretation of this…

MAGNA — The Addams Family started as a single panel comic in the New Yorker magazine drawn by Charles Addams, was later adapted to a television show, an animated cartoon,…