Murray’s CHARLIE BROWN delights New and Old Audiences
MURRAY — Most people are not reading the funnies in the newspaper anymore, but Murray Arts’ production of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown makes a strong case that Charlie…
MESSIAH: ONE WOMAN’S SACRED STRUGGLE is touching and uplifting
SALT LAKE CITY — Most people are familiar with Handel’s Messiah, a beloved oratorio composed in 1741 by George Frideric Handel with text taken from the King James Bible and…
Drink Up the HADESTOWN Tour At Eccles
SALT LAKE CITY — Hadestown is back as part of this season’s Broadway at the Eccles series, and there is a reason this show has won eight Tony Awards. Hadestown…
At This Utah Theatre – MEANWHILE PARK
SALT LAKE CITY — Having been involved heavily in the theatre community in Utah for 15 years now, I love I can still be genuinely surprised by the things that…
Bring Your Bro to the Show at Pioneer’s KING JAMES
SALT LAKE CITY — For three decades, student audiences rattled the rafters of the Einar Nielsen Fieldhouse cheering on their basketball team. In 1944, Utah won the basketball national title…
Love is In the Air at Utah Opera’s ELIXIR OF LOVE
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Opera’s latest offering is The Elixir of Love, the 1832 classic by Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti. Despite being the 13th most-performed opera in the world,…
Pop Punk Primarily Prevails at The Grand’s AMERICAN IDIOT
SOUTH SALT LAKE CITY — There are often interesting coincidences with art and the world at large. The announcement that Green Day would open Super Bowl 60 when the creative…
Westminster’s H5 is Full of Surprises
SALT LAKE CITY — In a state that is home to the second largest Shakespeare festival in the country, where high school students and college students alike have fairly easy…
A BEAUTIFUL NOISE: THE NEIL DIAMOND MUSICAL is So Good at Eccles
SALT LAKE CITY — Broadway at the Eccles delivers exactly what the Utah premiere of A Beautiful Noise: A Neil Diamond Musical promises: a celebration of one of America’s most…
Utah Opera’s, Fidelio, A Power House
I made up a saying decades ago: B.C.M.I.B. “Beethoven Can Make It Better!” And indeed he can. Utah Opera’s current offering is Beethoven’s only opera: Fidelio, first produced in 1805.…