Shakespeare

OREM — If there’s one thing I appreciate in modern productions of Shakespeare, it is a theater company’s ability to cut the script. As Shakespeare once wrote, “Brevity is the…

OREM — The announcement was unprecedented. For the second year in a row, the same university had won several of the highest awards given to college theatre: the Kennedy Center…

PROVO — If I had to choose one word to describe the Grassroots Shakespeare Company production of As You Like It, it would be “energetic.” Nearly every scene of the…

PROVO — The most important thing to know about The Echo Theatre’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is that it definitely does not look like a typical production of…

OREM — The Taming of the Shrew, like many of Shakespeare‘s best plays, is so versatile. The film 10 Things I Hate About You moved the story to a high…

SALT LAKE CITY — The Taming Of The Shrew is by far one of my top favorite Shakespeare plays. With witty humor and a cast of out right hilarious characters,…

SALT LAKE CITY — Romeo and Juliet, as penned by William Shakespeare, remains a constant of theater performance, attempted by many theatrical devotees and presented in a variety of lenses.…

SALT LAKE CITY — Shakespeare is hard to sell. Any director approaching a production of a Shakespeare play is faced with serious obstacles like making the story clear, relevant, and…

SALT LAKE CITY — New World Shakespeare Company’s production of Love’s Labour’s Lost creatively sets the action of the play within the context of a reality TV show. This modern…

PROVO — On the surface, Cymbeline is an unlikely candidate for a theatre production for young audiences. In addition to its gruesome violence the play features a major plot point…