Here’s the truth: THE LIAR is a flop
CEDAR CITY — The Utah Shakespeare Festival’s new fall production, The Liar, is so inherently flawed that I cannot imagine a worthwhile production of this play even being possible. Not…
At the Utah Shakespeare Fest, OTHELLO’s reputation grows
CEDAR CITY — Every minute of the Utah Shakespeare Festival’s current production of Othello demonstrates why this play is considered one of Shakespeare‘s greatest tragedies. The play is a case…
It’s a tragedy to miss ROMEO AND JULIET in fair Cedar City
CEDAR CITY — The Utah Shakespeare Festival has decided again to visit fair Verona and stage Romeo and Juliet this year in an insightful, well acted, and gratifying production that…
Too slow and uneven for this show to be AS YOU LIKE IT
CEDAR CITY — Often in Shakespeare‘s plays, people leave their home to attempt to escape their problems. As You Like It turns this idea on its head by forcing its…
Blown away by THE TEMPEST
CEDAR CITY — The Utah Shakespeare Festival (USF) is an incredible place to be. The caliber of talent in every element of a production leaves me in a state of…
Shakespeare Festival portrays a realistic politician in KING JOHN
CEDAR CITY — “Might makes right.” This old adage has illustrated that often the person with the strongest army becomes a leader by virtue of the physical force at his…
LOVE’S LABOUR’S is just a little bit lost
CEDAR CITY — From the moment you walk into the outdoor Adams Shakespeare Theatre for the Utah Shakespeare Festivals production of Love’s Labour’s Lost, you are quickly pulled into a…
Bloody TITUS ANDRONICUS is a rare Shakespeare treat at festival
CEDAR CITY — At the end of one moving scene in Titus Andronicus, Lavinia—the daughter of the title character—carries her father’s severed hand off stage in her teeth. This gruesome…
THE GLASS MENAGERIE at #UtahShakes
CEDAR CITY — I couldn’t be more pleased to begin our second annual trip to the Utah Shakespeare Festival with Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie. My first experience with the…