METAMORPHOSES IS TRANSFORMATIVE AT UVU
OREM — Utah Valley University’s production of Ovid’s Metamorphoses is the type of theatre that can be lifechanging. Walking into the black box Melanie Laycock Bastian Theatre, the audience is…
Plan-B Theatre’s AFTERSHOCK has cracks in its foundation
SALT LAKE CITY — Plan-B Theatre’s premiere of Aftershock, a play written by up-and-coming writer Iris Salazar, is set in contemporary, post-earthquake, post-lockdown Salt Lake. But Aftershock is not a…
Attend the tale of Mrs. Lovett at Utah Rep’s SWEENEY TODD
OREM — Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler, has long been a consecrated member of the…
MR. BURNS could be “excellent” if it would “cut to the chase”
PROVO — An Other Theater Company produced Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play by Anne Washburn, a show that surrounds the nostalgia of The Simpsons in a post-apocalyptic setting. The writing…
NEXT FALL stumbles, thanks to a fumbling script
PROVO — Luke and Adam are a couple, living together in New York City. When Luke (played by Abram Yarbro) is seriously injured, his separated parents, Butch and Arlene, arrive.…