FARNDALE TOWNSWOMEN put on hilarious spin on MACBETH
SALT LAKE CITY — As I walked into The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society’s Production of Macbeth, I was handed a raffle ticket along with my program…
All-male THE TAMING OF THE SHREW is a delight
OREM — I’ve said before that I’ll never pass up a chance to see a Grassroots Shakespeare Company show, and my enthusiasm only grew stronger after seeing their production of…
GRUESOME PLAYGROUND INJURIES was anything but a gruesome performance
OREM — Gruesome Playground Injuries is a contemporary drama with some dark comedy interspersed in the writing by Pulitzer Prize nominated playwright Rajiv Joseph. I first became a fan of…
URINETOWN is a #1 show
OREM — If you have never seen Urinetown, you are missing out on a delightfully metatheatrical parody of theatre and society. It is now playing at the Hale Center Theatre…
A BEHANDING IN SPOKANE is heavy on the dark, light on the comedy
SALT LAKE CITY — The Hive Theatre Company’s production of Martin McDonagh’s A Behanding in Spokane was for me a study in dichotomy, addressing the question of how I could…
Hale Centre Theatre serves up classic comedy in NO TIME FOR SERGEANTS
WEST VALLEY CITY — No Time For Sergeants, based on the 1954 novel by Mark Hyman, has been enduringly popular, having been adapted into a teleplay, a comic book series,…
A small rise out of CURTAINS
SALT LAKE CITY — Billed as, “A murder mystery that will give you something to sing about,” Rupert Holmes’s Curtains is the unique product of murder mystery and musical presented…
Lehi Arts Council scores a win with YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU
LEHI — Everyone has an eccentric relative that embarrasses them in public. Maybe it’s the strange uncle who has a hobby collecting odd objects like foreign Coke bottles. Perhaps it’s…
Desert Star’s LES MISERABLES – A LOT LESS MISERABLE ruthlessly skewers a classic
MURRAY — It was 1985 when Les Misérables first hit the big stage, smashing records from the West End to Broadway and culminating in a star-studded film adaptation last December.…
THE SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS is a comic gem
PROVO — In the eighteenth century, Carlo Goldoni led an effort to reform commedia dell’arte and make it a respectable art form once again. His efforts finally led him to…