THE CAKE is worth savoring
SALT LAKE CITY — You’ve seen the headline: ‘Bakery sued after refusing wedding cake for same-sex couple.’ National tempers are always stoked when morality runs up against legality. Playwright Bekah…
Utah Opera’s THE LITTLE PRINCE is a prince of a production
SALT LAKE CITY — One can only imagine what was going through the heart and mind of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in the early 1940s as World War II raged in…
“Countin’ on you” to see SCERA’s BEST CHRISTMAS PAGEANT EVER
OREM — An unexpected gem of a show is playing now on the SCERA stage: The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. Audience members who would normally pass on this old chestnut…
CARRIE: THE MUSICAL is bloody good
SALT LAKE CITY — Fresh off of Broadway and as the first Utah premiere, Carrie: The Musical is a tragic and cautionary tale. With a cast of 18, a live…
New musical BUMS! has promise
PROVO — Bums! is a new musical dramedy with book, music, and lyrics by local playwright Stephen Gashler. It’s about Edward Pibbles, a young accountant from New York who has…
This MAMA is Complex and Real
SALT LAKE CITY — Plan-B Theatre Company’s production of MAMA directed by Jerry Rapier asks the question “How do you define a mother?” Of course there is no one correct…
DOG SEES GOD uses classic characters to discuss growing up
MIDVALE — Silver Summit Theatre Company made a rather daring choice in mounting the Utah premiere of Bert V. Royal’s Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead. The company…