THE PRICE is right at the Utah Shakespeare Fest
CEDAR CITY — Arthur Miller is best known for classics like The Crucible and Death of a Salesman. Lesser known is The Price, a brutally realistic family drama about the…
Get thee to HAMLET at the Utah Shakespeare Festival
CEDAR CITY — “Sweets to the sweet,” states Queen Gertrude at Ophelia’s funeral. This mournful farewell captures my regret as I left the Utah Shakespeare Festival‘s production of Hamlet. It…
Flaccid script sucks life out of DRACULA
CEDAR CITY — With a lunar eclipse turning the moon red and October nearly upon us, it is the perfect time for theatre companies to produce plays that spook and…
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…
“This Nearly Was” a great SOUTH PACIFIC
CEDAR CITY — I will likely be exiled from the United States after my pronouncements in this review for two reasons. The first: this was my first time seeing South…
MEASURE FOR MEASURE not a “problem play” at the Utah Shakespeare Festival
CEDAR CITY — A sense of doom hangs over most of Measure for Measure as Claudio sits in prison awaiting his execution. With a death warrant signed by Angelo, the…
Utah Shakespeare Festival creates worthwhile MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR
CEDAR CITY — There’s a moment, late in The Merry Wives of Windsor, where Peter Simple stands on stage with his arms wrapped around a pillar just watching and enjoying…
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…