WEST SIDE STORY is “pretty and witty and bright”
LOGAN — Leave it to Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein, and Stephen Sondheim to take a challenging story like Romeo and Juliet and drop it into the West Side of New…
WEST SIDE STORY at The Grand Theatre is a must see
SALT LAKE CITY — West Side Story is based off of William Shakespeare‘s play, Romeo and Juliet, but set amidst kid gang wars on the streets of New York in…
A shimmering, fleeting SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE at Weber
OGDEN — In the song “Finishing the Hat,” from Sunday in the Park with George, the artist George Seurat makes a case for his dedication to art for art’s sake.…
The University of Utah is good COMPANY
SALT LAKE CITY — The musical Company started out as eleven one-act plays penned by actor/playwright George Furth who planned for Kim Stanley to play each of the separate leads.…
So much to savor in Pioneer Theatre’s SWEENEY TODD
SALT LAKE CITY — After twenty years, the musical thriller Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street has returned to Pioneer Theatre Company, this time directed by Karen Azenberg.…
Make your way to the Simon Fest’s funny FORUM
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum will be playing at the Neil Simon Festival in Cedar City various matinees and evenings July 3 through Aug 11.…
A transcendent INTO THE WOODS at BYU
PROVO — I’m not going to bury the lede. I loved this show. I confess I love Sondheim—to an evangelical degree, even. So you might think I would be predisposed…
STALLED shows and never tells
SALT LAKE CITY — As my first show at the Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival, Stalled did not disappoint. In Stalled, a girl rushes into the bathroom in the middle…
A Funny FORUM at Weber State
OGDEN — As the first successful musical of the great Stephen Sondheim as lyricist and composer, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, with a book by…
Westminster’s GYPSY is less than stellar
SALT LAKE CITY — As a theater veteran, it is surprising that I have never seen a production of Gypsy before I attended the closing night show at Westminster College.…