A historic night with PICASSO AT THE LAPIN AGILE at The Stage Door
ST. GEORGE — Two geniuses walk into a bar in Montmartre. It sounds like the promising start of a joke. Instead, it is the premise for The Stage Door’s current…
UBU ROI is an absurdist delight at the GSL Fringe Festival
SALT LAKE CITY — Ubu Roi, written by Alfred Jarry (directed by Jordan Reynosa), is an interactive, absurdist comedy featuring Juls Marino as Papa Turd, who wants to kill King…
It’s a new DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD at the Salt Lake Acting Company
SALT LAKE CITY — Since sunsetting the decades-old title of Saturday’s Voyeur, a summertime send-up of all things Utah-Conservative, the annual Salt Lake Acting Company show still carries much the…
LUCKY STIFF at Sugar Factory is a fun adventure
MIDVALE — Lucky Stiff (book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, with music by Stephen Flaherty) produced by Sugar Factory Playhouse is playing at the Midvale Performing Arts Center; it’s a…
ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS is three hours of non-stop laughs at Lyric Rep
LOGAN — When I left the Lyric Repertory theatre, my partner and I continued to chuckle to each other the whole way home. One Man, Two Guvnors left me with…
An absurdly enjoyable EARNEST at SimonFest
CEDAR CITY — The latest installment of comedy at Simonfest in Cedar City is a little bit of Seinfeld, a little bit of Shakespeare, and enough British humor to make…
“It’s a scandal! It’s an outrage” to miss the SCERA’s OKLAHOMA!
OREM — It has been 80 years since the premiere of Oklahoma!, Rodgers and Hammerstein‘s homespun tale of frontier love. Back in 1943, Oklahoma! single-handedly revolutionized musical theatre, and it…
SimonFest’s MARRIAGE IS MURDER highlights relationship humor, chaos
CEDAR CITY — When an estranged married couple reconnects to write the next book in their co-authored series of murder mysteries, there is bound to be some fireworks. Or in…
Switch it up and see Herriman Arts Council’s FREAKY FRIDAY
HERRIMAN — Every year the summer show produced by the Herriman Arts Council is full of great talent, and this year’s Freaky Friday is no exception. Freaky Friday (with a…
THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG is so right at Utah Shakespeare Festival
CEDAR CITY — Whether it was a high school production of Oklahoma! or your church’s last Christmas pageant, it is a truth universally acknowledged that bad community theatre, like death,…