Enjoy a marvelous evening of PILLOW TALK
OREM — Pillow Talk, played at the Hale Center Theater in Orem, was a delightful experience. The movie was adapted to a play by Christopher Sergel, and this performance was…
“From this day on,” plan to see SCERA’s BRIGADOON
OREM — With a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner with music by Frederick Loewe, Brigadoon tells the story of Tommy Albright and Jeff Douglas, two American tourists who…
Covey Center’s MURDER BY THE BOOK falls short
PROVO — Murder by the Book, written by Duncan Greenwood and Robert King, directed by Reese Purser and performed at the Covey Center for the Arts in Provo, might have…
Yeehaw! Sundance’s JOSEPH…DREAMCOAT is a fun hootenanny
SUNDANCE — I’ve never quite understood the phenomenon behind Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. While Andrew Lloyd Webber‘s music and Tim Rice‘s lyrics are catchy, the show always felt…
Spanish Fork’s THE LITTLE MERMAID is positoov-ly fun
SPANISH FORK — Having seen the show on stage three times before, I’m used to spectacle in The Little Mermaid. Nearly every page of Doug Wright‘s script calls for some…
Grassroots’s THE MERCHANT OF VENICE is a visit to the past
PROVO — Grassroots Shakespeare’s production of The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare, a play with a mix of comedic and tragic elements and a political undertone, was strengthened by…
SCERA has a great SEUSSICAL, “all for you”
OREM — It is rare that I get a chance to review the a different production of the same show in quick succession. But I have a ten-year-old daughter who…
Creekside’s OZ has charm in its setting and its actors
CEDAR HILLS — In Patrick Shanahan’s Oz, L. Frank Baum is having trouble finishing up his inevitably-famous novel, The Wizard of Oz. But when a scraggly girl breaks into his…
Explore TARZAN this summer at Hale Center Theater Orem
OREM — Stories about children growing up and leaving home to become adults will always have a place in family-centered Utah County. Maybe that is why Tarzan, which features two…
A movin’ and groovin’ HAIRSPRAY at the SCERA
OREM — The best sort of musicals are the ones that make me want to put away my critic’s pen and go be in a show. The current production of…