CenterPoint’s A CHRISTMAS CAROL blesses this holiday season
CENTERVILLE — It isn’t the Christmas Theatre Season until you see A Christmas Carol. I almost thought this year would be the year that I would not see a production…
A puppet Potter Christmas
OGDEN — A Fairly Potter Christmas Carol is a Ziegfeld Theater tradition in Ogden. A parody that “borrows” (or as one character points out “we stole that too!”) from A…
Strong cast lifts A CHRISTMAS STORY at the SCERA
OREM — A Christmas Story: The Musical is part of a trend on Broadway in the past 20 years of turning popular movies into musicals. Given the financial risks of…
Little ones can discover themselves via THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH
OREM — “Many things are possible as long as you believe they’re not impossible.” That’s one of the lessons of The Phantom Tollbooth, an adaptation of the Norton Juster novel…
Let Lehi’s BIG FISH hook you
LEHI — This year, the Lehi Arts Council’s sole theatre production will be Big Fish. The production was cast in January and was almost ready to open in March. But,…
HOW I BECAME A PIRATE is seaworthy and sound
OREM — Just two years after the last production of How I Became a Pirate at the SCERA, the company has a new production of this play for young audiences.…
New musical BLINK has heart
OREM — Blink is a new musical by the writing duo Chase Ramsey and David Paul Smith, making its debut here at the Hale Center Theater in Orem. Ramsey is…
SCERA’s CINDERELLA is “A Lovely Night”
OREM — I thought Cinderella was one of Rodgers and Hammerstein‘s lesser works. Originally written for television, it is about half as long as their other shows, has no subplot,…
Murray Art’s LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS makes the pandemic seem like a picnic
SALT LAKE CITY — Little Shop Of Horrors produced by Murray City Cultural Arts was a nice breath of fresh air … through a mask. I appreciated the outdoor stage…
SCERA’s THE MUSIC MAN is a comfy batch of nostalgia
OREM — In uncertain times, there is something comforting about a show like The Music Man. For the past five months, Americans have had to deal with lockdowns, riots, closed…