Pioneer Theatre’s THE MESSENGER is beautiful, relevant and weird
SALT LAKE CITY — “A Very, Very Loose Adaptation of An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen,” Jeff Talbott’s The Messenger at Pioneer Theater Company is a beautiful example…
LIFESPAN OF A FACT is a powerful quest for truth
SALT LAKE CITY — “Sometimes we misplace knowledge in pursuit of information,” says John D’Agata in his essay, “What Happens There.” Read it; it’s superb. In D’Agata’s essay, he writes…
PTC’s THE LION IN WINTER rules the stage
SALT LAKE CITY — When James Goldman‘s The Lion in Winter first premiered in 1966, the reception was (at best) tepid. Two years later, a star-studded film adaptation allowed this…
A joyous second movement in A COMEDY OF TENORS
SALT LAKE CITY — Lightning, as they say, never strikes the same place twice. This old (and highly inaccurate) saying was coined to say how unlikely it is that an…