Good Company makes good theater in GLORIA
OGDEN — Gloria, a play by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, focuses on the experiences of people who work at a desk job but aspire to something greater or at least different. The…
Weber State’s CLASS OF ’94 stages a timely conversation
OGDEN — Director Jennifer Kokai, with the help of the Hurst Foundation, commissioned playwright Diana Grisanti to write a play that would premiere at Weber State University. This play, titled…
The Echo’s STREETCAR is in your face, in a good way
I’ll admit to being apprehensive before sitting down at A Streetcar Named Desire. I’d heard rumors of police being called on prior performances because of what looked like violence. I’d…
Strong performances and tight direction compensate for an imperfect script in RINGS
SALT LAKE CITY–Truth and lies, guilt and innocence, justice and mercy, and right and wrong get tangled up in the “rings” of life in this courtroom drama, based on an…
WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF Shines in an Intimate Space
SALT LAKE CITY–It’s as important to choose a worthy opponent as a worthy partner. So stands the lesson learned in Edward Albee‘s deeply twisted Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, put…
AGNES OF GOD at Westminster College explores truth & belief
SALT LAKE CITY — In 1977, a nun in upstate New York gave birth to a child which was found asphyxiated in a waste basket in her room. The voluminous…
MARTYRS’ CROSSING: a provoking play
PROVO — If you have ever had the good fortune to take a dramatic theory and criticism course, you’ll know that there are dozens of discourses throughout history on the…
ALL MY SONS shows that we’re all connected
SALT LAKE CITY — All My Sons was Arthur Miller’s first critically successful play, inspiration for which came from a story he found in a newspaper after World War II.…
Let Dark Horse Entertain You
PARK CITY — I have long been under the impression that Gypsy is one of those musicals that appeals largely to theatre people who can understand its showbiz heartbreak overtones…
The World’s Most Famous Diary, Live on Stage
PROVO — I saw a play at BYU,The Diary of Anne Frank, which has to be the most read diary in the world. Everybody knows the story of a little…