Hecate Dominates In Sublime MACBETH at Utah Shakespeare Festival
CEDAR CITY – There is a first for everything, and this season’s Macbeth at the Utah Shakespeare Festival is the first time I’ve ever seen the inclusion of Hecate in…
UTBA May 2025 Preview
🎭 Utah Theatre in May 2025: A Month of Must-See Performances Utah’s theatre scene is blooming this May with a vibrant lineup of musicals, dramas, comedies, and family favorites. From…
Payson’s WAIT UNTIL DARK Carried By Strong Leads
PAYSON — Payson Community Theatre board member Hannah Anderson spoke warmly about twenty five years of theatre shows produced. She was insightful about the ebb and flow of fall shows…
Lightning Crackles Over THE MOUNTAINTOP at USF
CEDAR CITY — Can a hero ever live up to all we expect them to be? I thought this was going to be the major dramatic question of the Utah…
DRIVING MISS DAISY at Lyric Rep is worth the drive
LOGAN — The Black Box Theater on the Utah State University campus is an intimate space with room for a few dozen audience members lucky enough to squeeze in alongside…
Paganism and Catholicism Collide in U of U’s DANCING AT LUGHNASA
SALT LAKE CITY — On Friday, March 15th, 2024 I saw Dancing at Lughnasa (written by Brian Friel) and directed by Sarah Shippobotham at the University of Utah’s Performing Acts…
A magnificent world premiere of THE HOUSE OF EDGAR ALLAN POE
OGDEN — It is rare that you get to hear the words, “world premiere musical,” in Utah, but I have heard those words a lot this season. I was very…
Westminster takes on living-room comedy-drama, AH, WILDERNESS!
SALT LAKE CITY — There isn’t much wilderness in Eugene O’Neill‘s 1933 comedy-drama Ah, Wilderness—until the final scene, when it serves as a lovers’ getaway. Almost the entire show takes…
I’m certain you’ll want to see DOUBT
PROVO — With Taylor Jack Nelson as director, An Other Theater Company’s performance of the award-winning play, Doubt: A Parable, was excellent and thought-provoking. Originally written by John Patrick Shanley,…
GIRL IN THE RED CORNER is a knockout
SALT LAKE CITY — Halo punches the at glove of her trainer, Gina, with everything she’s got. “Be nice! Be good! Don’t be so emotional!” she rages as each thud…