Neil Simon Festival’s NOISES OFF fails to impress
CEDAR CITY — Noises Off by Michael Frayn is hailed as one of the funniest farces ever written. Unfortunately, the production currently at the Neil Simon Festival did not live…
Funny fraud, hilarious hijinks in CASH ON DELIVERY
OREM — If you’re in the mood to laugh for two hours straight, Hale Center Theater Orem’s Cash on Delivery is where you need to be. The jokes were non-stop,…
Run to see HCTO’s delightful SEE HOW THEY RUN
OREM — Fewer scripts evoke a feeling of complete chaos than See How They Run by Philip King. It is a hilarious, fast paced farce involving mistaken identities, a couple…
NERD alert! Don’t miss the Orem Hale’s 2016 season opener
OREM — If you are looking to step into 2016 with a night of hilarity, don’t miss Larry Shue’s The Nerd, directed by Laurie Harrop-Purser and running now at the…
A “Remarkable” FOREIGNER has come to Cedar City
CEDAR CITY — When I told friends that I was going down to Cedar City to see some plays at a festival, they all assumed I was going to the…
CHARLEY’S AUNT splitting sides and slapping knees in Cedar City
CEDAR CITY — As a theatre critic, there are moments when my fellow audience members laugh loudly, and I do not. Unfortunately, I am often too busy dissecting the elements…
WV Hale Theatre’s IS HE DEAD? slowly comes to life
WEST VALLEY — Is He Dead? is an intriguing historical artifact. Written by legendary write Mark Twain in 1898, it wasn’t until the 2003 that the piece was finally published…
SEE HOW THEY RUN finishes strong at BYU
PROVO — See How They Run by Philip King is a classic farce about the Toops, a vicar and his uncouth wife living in a small English hamlet during World…
ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS, & lots of laughs at Pioneer
SALT LAKE CITY — A British play based on Carlo Goldoni‘s classic The Servant of Two Masters (an Italian commedia dell’arte play), One Man, Two Guvnors is a comic play…
Catch BOEING BOEING before it flies away
CEDAR CITY — Only a Frenchman could write Boeing Boeing. And only the Utah Shakespeare Festival could create a production that is so clever and enjoyable. Set in Paris in…