Kallisti’s ANGELS IN AMERICA PART 1 has a halo that dims at times
SALT LAKE CITY — Part I of Tony Kushner‘s Angels in America: Millennium Approaches drops the audience into an anxiety addled New York City in the 1980s. While the AIDS…
It would be madness to miss the Parker Theatre’s HAMLET
SOUTH SALT LAKE — I do not know how many times I have seen Hamlet. But I do know that the production at the Parker Theatre is the best Hamlet…
Mad King’s AS YOU LIKE IT carouses with “drunk Shakespeare”
MIDVALE — Shakespeare‘s works are produced so frequently in Utah that the six most reviewed straight plays in UTBA’s archives were all written by the Bard. Therefore, it can be…
The Off-Broadway Theatre’s CHARLIE’S AUNT is a riotous romp
DRAPER — Be ready to be slammed by a wall of energy and laughter at The Off-Broadway Theatre’s production of Charlie’s Aunt. The company’s mission is to “provide a place…
Bluffdale’s LES MIS: SCHOOL EDITION is a joy for cast and viewers
BLUFFDALE — When I heard that the Bluffdale Arts Advisory Board was mounting a production of Les Misérables: School Edition, I jumped at the chance to cover the show. Les…
Seeing HADESTOWN at the Eccles is worth going to hell and back
SALT LAKE CITY — The musical Hadestown, with music, lyrics, and book by Anais Mitchell, opened on Broadway in March of 2019 with a pre-Broadway life in London and Off-Broadway.…
PLEASANT GROVE rock opera is visceral and painfully relevant
WEST VALLEY CITY — Pleasant Grove is an exciting piece of theatre that its creators have been developing since the 1990s. Set in our own Utah Valley in the 1970s,…
Toxic friendships take a TRIP at the GREAT SALT LAKE FRINGE FEST
SALT LAKE CITY — Sometimes going to a one-act play is more about getting introduced to an idea or a concept more than a completely fleshed out story. Such is…
SMALL BOX WITH A REVOLVER is a bullseye
SALT LAKE CITY — In Small Box With a Revolver, Sam and Gene are strangers who do not why or how they have woken up in a locked room with…
Don’t boo for THE HAUNTING IS YOU at the Great Salt Lake Fringe
SALT LAKE CITY — There are two truths universally acknowledged by theatre makers: 1. You will always be fundraising. 2. Improv (improvised theatre) can be fun, but it is also…