Humdrum SHREK in Cottonwood Heights
COTTONWOOD HEIGHTS — It’s difficult to review community theatre fairly because the reviewer has to make concessions for the limitations of this sort of show: a company’s non-professional cast and…
The Empress Theatre has a delightful SHREK THE MUSICAL
MAGNA — Shrek The Musical far surpassed my expectations for the DreamWorks film-turned-Broadway musical. The script basically takes all the best jokes from the movie Shrek then expands them into…
12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS at the Empress needs more than partridge in pear tree
MAGNA — Before I went out to the Empress Theatre in Magna Friday night, I was hoping to find out more about 12 Days of Christmas, their current production directed…
I enjoyed my NIGHT AT THE WAX MUSEUM
MAGNA — What do you get when you take a crew of underachieving high school students, a lovers’ quarrel, a family-owned wax museum, an evil landlord, and a cursed Egyptian…
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN won’t give you the Transylvania Mania
MAGNA — Young Frankenstein, officially known as The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein, is a musical with a book by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan and music and lyrics…
All aboard for laughs at ANYTHING GOES
MAGNA — If laughter is the best medicine, Cole Porter’s Anything Goes should be widely prescribed. Though the Empress Theatre’s production of the musical is anything but perfect, one thing…
OLIVER! will leave you begging for more
MAGNA — I have been going to the theatre since I was a young child and have participated both on stage and off for longer than I can remember. Because…
Titus Productions presents MURDER ON THE NILE for a good cause
SALT LAKE CITY — Thursday night I attended by first production at the Sugar Space just off 7th East, a performance space I’ve been hearing a lot about. The theatre…
Can’t Help Falling in Love with "All Shook Up"
DRAPER — Community theater serves many different purposes, but I think one of the greatest is the uniting of people from various walks of life for about two hours in…