‘Burn This’ is a strong production from the UTAC
SALT LAKE CITY — It didn’t feel like a play—it felt real. These people had lost someone they loved suddenly and tragically; they were shocked and wounded. Their lives had…
Women Have a Voice in SLAC’s ‘Charm’
SALT LAKE CITY — Salt Lake Acting Company’s Charm transported me into the world of America’s most famous transcendentalists—Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Nathaniel Hawthorne—but I found a…
A step into THE LAB: three new original works at the Rose
SALT LAKE CITY — The Lab | Script-in-Hand Series is a fairly new laboratory for original work by Utah playwrights. The lab is led by Tobin Atkinson (Meat & Potato…
A Modern Take on Molière
SALT LAKE CITY — The Would-Be Gentleman, presented at the University of Utah’s Babcock Theatre, was wildly entertaining. While Molière’s comédie-ballet was originally written and performed for King Louis XIV…
Plan B’s ‘Amerigo’ Explores the New World
SALT LAKE CITY — I must confess upfront that I often have the hardest time writing reviews of shows I love. An uneven play warrants criticism—pointing out, in one’s own…
One night left to see a surprising show in SLC
SALT LAKE CITY — Last night I had the lucky opportunity to attend a Christ focused musical called Power in His Touch. On purpose I went to this musical without…
A Night at Emerson’s Bar and Grill with Lady Day
SALT LAKE CITY — “Lonely grief is hounding me, like the lonely shadow hounding me. It’s always there just out of sight, like a fragile tree on a lightening night.”…
Cabaret theatre at the Desert Star
MURRAY — Desert Star holds its own for a unique theatrical experience you’re not going to find many other places in Utah. Each show is a blend of parody and…
‘Death…The Final Frontier…May the Corpse Be With You’
MIDVALE — All I knew going into Death…The Final Frontier…May the Corpse Be With You was that it was a comedy and dinner would be served. I ended up getting…
Pioneer Theatre Company’s ‘Our Town’: No Ordinary Show
SALT LAKE CITY — Even though we have spent our lives being involved in theatre, and even though Our Town is the most produced play of all time, we both…