Utah Opera’s CANDIDE is a wacky spectacle
SALT LAKE CITY — Candide is indeed a many splendid thing. Endlessly rewritten and unquestionably unwieldy, it’s essentially a comedic operetta, and in the hands of the Utah Opera and…
Meat & Potato Theatre’s BEOWULF dusts off an old epic
SALT LAKE CITY — Meat & Potato Theatre’s adaptation of Beowulf opens on the great hall of Heorot where a dwindling tribe of Danes are besieged by the monster Grendel.…
Fall in love with PTC’s MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
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…
FARNDALE TOWNSWOMEN put on hilarious spin on MACBETH
SALT LAKE CITY — As I walked into The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society’s Production of Macbeth, I was handed a raffle ticket along with my program…
ALIENS (THE PUPPET MUSICAL)—even in space you could hear us scream [with laughter]
SALT LAKE CITY — When I first heard about Meat & Potato Theatre’s Aliens (the puppet musical) I knew this would be a show that I had to see. I…
Henrik Ibsen’s A DOLL HOUSE Translated by Local Playwright
READINGS / WORKS IN DEVELOPMENT: We love to see new work developed by Utah theatre artists. On occasion, we are invited to performances of pieces (sometimes still in development) that…
Judgement Day and Dancing Demons
SALT LAKE CITY — “Judgment day is a myth, like no interest loans or compassionate conservatism.” With a show about Judgment Day, I anticipated heavy monologues on hell and damnation.…