Meddling, Music, and Marriage: EMMA shines at West Valley
WEST VALLEY CITY — Walking into the West Valley Performing Arts Center for Kate Hamill’s Emma, I wasn’t entirely sure what I was going to get. I’m an avid reader…
Parker’s Original SENSE AND SENSIBILITY is Alluring
SOUTH SALT LAKE — Whenever Jane Austen’s work comes to life on stage with its feelings of romance and situational drama, the joy of life permeates my soul. Parker Theatre…
Holiday charm at USU with THE WICKHAMS: CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY
LOGAN — Utah State University Theatre presented a truly delightful production starting the holiday season. They performed Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon’s The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley directed by Richie…
Parker Theatre’s PERSUASION Admirable If Not Totally Persuasive
SOUTH SALT LAKE — “Persuasion” is one of only six novels that luminary 19th century writer Jane Austen wrote in her life. Published after her death, a new adaptation is…
A Beautifully Rebuilt Persuasion at Snow College
Ephraim-Persuasion, a Jane Austen novel that was actually published after her death in 1817, has been brought to the Snow College Theatre stage by local acclaimed playwright Melissa Leilani Larsen…
Exquisite PRIDE AND PREJUDICE at The Grand Theatre
SALT LAKE CITY — I am not an Austen lover, but it’s hard to not be exposed to her work. When the preshow announcement for The Grand Theatre’s production of…
Effervescent EMMA THE MUSICAL is a win at the Utah Shakespeare Fest
CEDAR CITY — It was the year 2000 when the Utah Shakespeare Festival was awarded a Tony for outstanding work as a regional theatre. About that same time lyricist and…
EMMA at the Parker Theatre is elegant and enjoyable
SOUTH SALT LAKE — On State Street in South Salt Lake, there is a small, unassuming building. Tucked in between a car dealership and a storage facility, the former punk…
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE is perfectly poised to Premiere at HCTO
OREM — Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few years, you must have noticed the tremendous resurgence of Regency Era fandom. The recent Bridgerton television phenomenon…
Playwright Melissa Leilani Larson tells all for PRIDE & PREJUDICE
OREM — The first production in 2023 from Hale Center Theater Orem is a new adaptation of Jane Austen‘s comedy Pride and Prejudice. One thing that makes this production special…