satire

SALT LAKE CITY — “Product of their time” was the key phrase in Salt Lake Acting Company’s annual production of Saturday’s Voyeur—Mumpsimus the Musical. Updated with 2014 “Mormon Issues,” the…

CENTERVILLE — CenterPoint Legacy Theatre’s production of the musical, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying by Frank Loesser (book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, and Willie Gilbert, based…

SALT LAKE CITY — There is no denying that Salt Lake Acting Company has a winning formula with Saturday’s Voyeur. Not only has it become a season staple, but it…

OGDEN — The Ziegfeld Theatre shows what good community should look like with its latest production of Spamalot. Though working with a small budget to put on a huge production…

OREM — If you have never seen Urinetown, you are missing out on a delightfully metatheatrical parody of theatre and society. It is now playing at the Hale Center Theatre…

PARK CITY — Reefer Madness has now become one of my new favorite cult musicals; it is witty satire full of ridiculousness, large laughs, and great music. The musical is…

SALT LAKE CITY — When I picked up my tickets to the University of Utah’s production of Vernon God Little, I had no idea what to expect. I had read…

OREM — At intermission of Little Shop of Horrors at the SCERA, I turned to look at my theatre companion for the evening, my husband, and suddenly realized this was…

SALT LAKE CITY — Saturday’s Voyeur began its longstanding tradition at Salt Lake Acting Company back in 1978 and has been a summer tradition ever since. It is almost always…

OREM — One of the oldest surviving dramatic forms in the Western theatrical tradition is satire. Aristophanes wrote plays that heaped scorn and derision on powerful figures of his day,…