EVERY BRILLIANT THING lives up to its name
CEDAR CITY — On a list of every brilliant thing in life, the Utah Shakespeare Festival production of, Every Brilliant Thing, should definitely be near the top. It’s a theatrical…
Utah Shakespeare’s TWELFTH NIGHT is “most wonderful”
CEDAR CITY — The Utah Shakespeare Festival‘s production of Twelfth Night is the type of production that gets people hooked on Shakespeare. Every scene bursts with pleasure and enjoyment, and…
Utah Shakespeare’s HENRY VI, PARTS 2 & 3 is a stalemate
CEDAR CITY — This year, the Utah Shakespeare Festival has a bargain: two plays for the price of one. Shakespeare‘s Henry VI, Part Two and Henry VI, Part Three are…
THE BOOK OF WILL needs a rewrite
CEDAR CITY — Theatre is ethereal, but does it have to be? The Book of Will, currently playing at the Utah Shakespeare Festival, grapples with this question through a story…
Get thee to HAMLET at the Utah Shakespeare Festival
CEDAR CITY — “Sweets to the sweet,” states Queen Gertrude at Ophelia’s funeral. This mournful farewell captures my regret as I left the Utah Shakespeare Festival‘s production of Hamlet. It…
A fully engrossing MACBETH at the Utah Shakespeare Fest
CEDAR CITY — There is only one word to describe the current production of Macbeth at the Utah Shakespeare Festival: engrossing. Nearly every scene is a triumph of directing and…
Rock on to the Utah Shakespeare Fest’s JOSEPH…DREAMCOAT
CEDAR CITY — Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat may be a groovy ’60s relic, but it feels energetic in a production currently playing at the Utah Shakespeare Festival. While…
MACBETH for the rising generation
WEST VALLEY CITY — In a world where youth are constantly looking down at their phones to watch the latest asinine YouTube video with a limited attention span, I wonder…
ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE: COSTUMES FROM UTAH’S GREATS is dressed to the Nines
BRIGHAM CITY — Every year at the first of September, long before most people give it a thought, I sit my kids down and ask them one of the most…
Introducing Statera: Supporting women in the performing arts
CEDAR CITY — Making a living in the arts has always been a challenge. But—as in many other fields—women experience challenges in the workplace that men do not have. Rather…