“It’s a fine life” if you get to see OLIVER! at HCTO
OREM — The best way to experience the work of Charles Dickens is in adaptations. By modern standards, most of Dickens’s novels are excessively wordy and overflow with superfluous subplots…
Don’t sit alone in your room, come to Daydreamer Theatre’s CABARET
AMERICAN FORK — At first glance, with its penchant for joyful decadence and unabashed depictions of sensual indulgence, the musical Cabaret seems like a great choice to open the exciting…
SCERA’s MARY POPPINS is a nice family outing
OREM — The SCERA’s current production of Mary Poppins is the type of show that the company is known for: a joyous, family-friendly musical that showcases local talent. But it…
THE LAST FIVE YEARS falls flat at UVU
OREM — The Last Five Years is a beautiful show written by Jason Robert Brown that follows the tumultuous courtship and marriage of Jamie Wellerstein (played by Preston Ochsenhurt) and…
A storm of fun is brewin’ at Grassroots Shakespeare’s THE TEMPEST
PROVO — Theatre is purest when it is done for the love of it. For the past 14 years, Grassroots Shakespeare Company is a non-profit troupe that has been jovially…
In UVU’s FALSETTOS, everything is more than “Alright”
OREM — “Everything will be alright!” This line is repeated often throughout the second half of the musical Falsettos. After watching UVU’s opening night, I can confirm that this is…
Lehi’s BRIGHT STAR guides its audience to a lovely night
LEHI — How is there so much performing arts talent in Utah? I kept asking myself that question while watching the Lehi Arts Council production of Bright Star. With its…
“No way to stop” an enjoyable SOUND OF MUSIC at Timp Community
AMERICAN FORK — Tucked in the back of a series of old buildings next to the Mount Timpanogos Temple is the Valentine Theater that houses Timpanogos Community Theatre. The spacious…
HCTO’s ONCE is so nice, go see it twice
OREM — Timeless, memorable, profound, jaw-dropping. These words swirled in my mind as I exited Hale Center Theater after seeing Once. Not every production has the benefit of magnificent original…
SCERA’S THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG is easy on the brain
OREM — Sometimes, especially during the midst of final exams, tax season, and at the end of a terrible winter, a person wants to be entertained by a show that…