Not Your Mother’s “Oklahoma!”
OREM – Ho-hum. Another opening of another Oklahoma! Curly ambles down the auditorium’s aisles and onto the stage rhapsodizing about “a bright, golden haze on the meadow”—
“She Stoops to Conquer” = LOL :D :D :D
OREM — Before the show started, the lights dimmed and an usher came out onto the UVU Noorda stage to ask us as an audience to please leave our phones…
UVU’s “Antigone”: an interesting take on an old classic
OREM — Outdoor theatre is always a treat for me, and UVU’s current production of Antigone is no exception. The production is being performed by special request of UVU’s president,…
Learning Self-Reliance to Confront ‘The Hairy Man’
OREM — What should you do when a fear keeps you from being who you want to be or going where you want to go? Do you run away? Pretend…
Considerable Joy at Sundance’s “Big River”
OREM — At the conclusion of Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck explains to the audience, “It was like the fortune predicted long ago: considerable trouble and considerable…
UVU Goes ADD with Short Attention Span Theatre
OREM — As I stepped into the Noorda Theatre at Utah Valley University to see the opening production of SAST (Short Attention Span Theatre), I found myself welcomed into an…
Of Tragedies and Sitcoms – UVU’s ‘A Doll House’
OREM — Walking into UVU’s production of A Doll’s House was a pleasant surprise. I knew that Eric Samuelsen had done the translation, but I didn’t realize that he had…