YOU GOT OLDER touches truth, but needs to grow
SALT LAKE CITY — In You Got Older, Clare Barron has written a deeply intimate play about the anxieties, awkwardness, and unexpected joys of the initial stages of middle adulthood.…
Talented cast saves WHAT WE’RE UP AGAINST from a lacking script
SALT LAKE CITY 𑁋 What We’re Up Against is an intriguing piece that takes place inside an architecture firm and follows some female employees as they deal with work equality,…
Only the Lord could like GOD’S FAVORITE
he Wastach Theatre Company production God's Favorite plays Fridays and Saturdays at 8 PM and Sundays at 2 PM through October 8th at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center (138…
Finding connections in Wasatch Theatre Co’s A BRIGHT NEW BOISE
SALT LAKE CITY — Every job involves some navigation of workplace culture and politics. When Will starts work at the Boise, Idaho, Hobby Lobby, he upsets the store’s daily grind…
Wasatch Theatre Company’s WIT is truly grand
Salt Lake City – My first exposure to Margaret Edson‘s play, Wit, was at a one-act play festival in high school. It contrasted so drastically with everything else there that…
THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED explores conflict between sexuality and career
SALT LAKE CITY — The Little Dog Laughed is a contemporary comedy by Douglas Carter Beane. It follows the story of an up-and-coming Hollywood actor and leading man named Mitchell…
Wasatch’s HAPPY is a pleasure to watch
SALT LAKE CITY — Alfred is happy, in spite of everything, at least that’s according to his best friend Eduardo. Alfred comes by Eduardo’s apartment on a rainy evening to…
If “it’s not impossible,” go see BOEING-BOEING
MIDVALE — My thoughts after seeing Pinnacle Acting Company’s production of Boeing-Boeing are best summed up in a line from the script spoken by one of the supporting characters, Berthe,…
33 VARIATIONS ascends to triumph
SALT LAKE CITY — Why did Ludwig Von Beethoven devote four years of his diminishing life writing 33 variations of a mediocre waltz? This question has remained largely a mystery…
A NIGHT WITH one very violent FAMILY
SALT LAKE CITY — You know the feeling of landing at the airport in your home state on Christmas Eve. It’s like there’s gingerbread in the air. You feel like…