Herd the Little Flock to Young Company’s BABE THE SHEEP PIG
PROVO — Like many millennials, the movie Babe is a nostalgic favorite. The 1995 motion picture, adapted from the novel The Sheep Pig by Dick King-Smith, was a surprise cultural…
SECRETS OF SLEEPY HOLLOW at the Hive is full of twists and turns
PROVO — Washington Irving’s 1820 short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow has inspired countless adaptations in the two hundred years since its publishing. Secrets of Sleepy Hollow, written by…
Discover new theatrical frontier with BYU’s MEN ON BOATS
PROVO — I love it when theatre leans into purely theatrical modes of storytelling. While technology offers benefits to minimize the costs of building sets, I have a soft spot…
Covey’s “The Woman in Black” is Perfect Kickoff to Spooky Season
PROVO — As I walked out of the Covey Center this past Thursday, my heart was still pounding. I had just seen the opening night of “The Woman in Black,”…
Covey’s WAIT UNTIL DARK Thrills Audiences
PROVO — There are times when a classic play meets a perfect venue for that material. Whether it be an amphitheater to a black box sometimes knowing what to select…
BYU’s House of Desires Leaves Nothing Wanting
PROVO — The last time I was in the BYU West Campus Studio Theatre I was watching the simplicity of six teaching artists recreate Go Dog Go. This time, the…
BYU Experimental Theater’s 24-Hour Project is Well Worth Seeing!
PROVO — A year ago, I reviewed BYU Experimental Theater’s 24-hour Project and vowed I wouldn’t miss another. But I missed last fall’s. (They have one each semester, I think.)…
‘Talley’s Folly’ is a Sweet 96 Minutes
PROVO — Talley’s Folly, we are told from the start by the play’s protagonist, Matt Friedman, is a romance—a waltz—played out in three-four time over the course of ninety-six minutes…
‘Brothers’ Doesn’t Quite Live Up to the Source Material
PROVO — Brothers is a new play by J. Scott Bronson, about the eons-old sibling rivalry between Jesus and Satan. The play is divided into four scenes–the first, as the…
Mortal Fools Theater Project got it right with ‘The Glass Menagerie’
PROVO — I read the basic synopsis before going to see The Glass Menagerie: a fatherless family living in 1937’s St. Louis. I was expecting to see something about the…