Covey’s DIAL M FOR MURDER fails to ring up the suspense
PROVO — There are times when a play and audience member are just not a match. Such is the case with me and Dial M for Murder at the Covey…
Don’t bother with a trip ON GOLDEN POND
PROVO — Summer is a time for making memories, and family vacations, like the one in On Golden Pond, are an ideal setting. Unfortunately, On Golden Pond at the Covey…
A lifeless ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD at BYU
PROVO — In one of his most famous monologues, Shakespeare wrote, “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their…
A forgettable production of THE NERD at the Covey
PROVO — If somebody had saved your life, what would you do in return? That’s the fundamental question behind Larry Shue‘s comedy The Nerd. Playing now at the Covey Center…
ANNE OF GREEN GABLES at BYU is rumpled, but not in spirit
PROVO — Those familiar with Lucy Maud Montgomery’s 1908 novel Anne of Green Gables and its many sequels know that the title character’s exuberant imagination always makes readers wonder what…
Covey Center’s MURDER BY THE BOOK falls short
PROVO — Murder by the Book, written by Duncan Greenwood and Robert King, directed by Reese Purser and performed at the Covey Center for the Arts in Provo, might have…
A thrilling case of DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE
PROVO — The biggest compliment that I can give Mortal Fools Theatre Project’s production of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (currently playing at the Echo Theatre) is that I am…
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…