Attend the tale of SWEENEY TODD at Draper Historic Theatre
DRAPER — With Halloween right around the corner, even the tale of a barber who loves his family and a woman who runs a pie shop can be quite sinister.…
The Scottish play: a post-apocalyptic experience
DRAPER — Draper Historic Theatre and Lamplight Theatre Company have teamed together to present the tragic tale of Macbeth, the story of the power-hungry man and his wife who are…
A performance of GREASE that could use some oil
DRAPER — Directed by Wil Greer and assistant director Savana Lowe, Draper Historic Theatre’s production of Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey’s iconic Grease musical was, all in all, a let…
Promising cast devoured by plant at Draper Historic Theatre
DRAPER — Like its featured creature, Little Shop of Horrors is a strange beast: a combination of a late-’50s monster-of-the-week flick and an ’80s B-movie camp, featuring a jive-talking, man-eating…
Draper Historic’s SPITFIRE GRILL inspires
DRAPER — With a stormy blizzard on the horizon, the Draper Historic Theatre provided a warm and cozy venue for a musical that left me inspired. The Spitfire Grill, a…
THE ADDAMS FAMILY has no snap
DRAPER — The Addams Family is a side tickling adaptation of the old comic strip and TV show with book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice and music and lyrics…
THE FANTASTICKS has all the fixings of a good production
DRAPER — This was my first time seeing The Fantasticks, and it only took me a few minutes to understand why it’s such a staple of community theater. Tom Jones’s…
BRIGADOON is a lovely walk through the heather
DRAPER — Brigadoon is a musical written by Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner that has been around over 50 years. The music is well known, and the story one…
Let THE TAMING OF THE SHREW woo you, too
DRAPER — By far the most popular playwright in Utah—and likely many other parts of the world—is William Shakespeare. A quick perusal of the UTBA archives shows that this is…
Make STEEL MAGNOLIAS your girls’ night out
DRAPER — No matter one’s station in life, everyone has ups and downs. We all have our different ways of coping with the downs and celebrating the ups, but no…