Olio saves Desert Star’s PROVOCOP from danger
MURRAY — Let’s just get it out there: though I’ve enjoyed Desert Star productions in the past, their current production, ProvoCop, is not a show I want to see again.…
DEATHTRAP’s plot twists keep audience guessing
SALT LAKE CITY — What would you do to achieve success? Is success worth achieving at any cost? Is it worth another person’s life? In Deathtrap a down-on-his-luck playwright named…
Use THE TAMING OF THE SHREW tour to introduce kids to Shakespeare
SALT LAKE CITY — The Taming Of The Shrew is by far one of my top favorite Shakespeare plays. With witty humor and a cast of out right hilarious characters,…
FORUM falters at The Echo
PROVO — Slamming doors, cases of mistaken identity, characters disguising themselves as one another, clever puns and satirical comments on social class. It’s all there in the musical farce A…
Fall in love with PTC’s MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
SALT LAKE CITY — Shakespeare is hard to sell. Any director approaching a production of a Shakespeare play is faced with serious obstacles like making the story clear, relevant, and…
THE CAT IN THE HAT is by-the-book fun
OREM — Dr. Seuss‘s The Cat in the Hat, originally published in 1957, has become a staple across a variety of media formats including a 1971 animated musical, a 2003…
In earnest about THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
PROVO — “One has to be serious about something if one is to have any amusement in life.” Thus Algernon Moncrief states in Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest.…
Reality TV’s latest season of LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST
SALT LAKE CITY — New World Shakespeare Company’s production of Love’s Labour’s Lost creatively sets the action of the play within the context of a reality TV show. This modern…
A bizarre and intriguing BAT BOY at SUU
CEDAR CITY — Bat Boy is an American musical comedy with a book by Keythe Farley and Brian Flemming and music and lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe, and is based on…
Echo’s PYGMALION was slow but steady
PROVO — I grew up watching the Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison film adaptation of My Fair Lady, so I was thrilled at the chance to see the George Bernard…