world premiere

OREM — SCERA’s The Three Little Pigs is a fun show for kids, though lacking in parental luster. I enjoyed the set, costumes, and acting, especially the audience interaction. I…

PROVO — With Utah’s abundant art scene, I feel privileged to see things from time to time that are especially relevant to our specific time and place. I recall Sackerson’s…

PROVO — The Hive Collaborative continues its streak of producing excellent new plays. Their latest offering, Bank Holiday, is a cozy show that explores the Christmas season without falling into…

OGDEN — It is rare that you get to hear the words, “world premiere musical,” in Utah, but I have heard those words a lot this season. I was very…

SALT LAKE CITY — The year is 1994 in a mental hospital. Patient and Doctor enter a stark holding facility, there to discuss the particulars of Patient’s incarceration. The two…

SPANISH FORK — The new Angelus Theatre in downtown Spanish Fork holds on to its history as a century-old motion picture theater, complete with chandeliers and vintage pianos and with…

NEW YORK — Power Strip is a beautiful and timely look about life at a Greek refugee camp where we meet Yasim, a Syrian refugee played by Dina Shihabi, as…

SALT LAKE CITY — Flora Meets a Bee is a precious story of a little girl from Mexico who is living with a foster family in America and looking for…

OREM — I am a believer that music has the power to move mountains—and the human soul. A musical theatre experience most usually takes one to soaring heights of happiness…

SALT LAKE CITY — The new rock musical A Wall Apart at The Grand Theatre tells the story of one family’s experience of living through the nearly thirty-year division of…