The Off-Broadway Theater’s A NIGHT AT THE IMPERIAL is a flop
SALT LAKE CITY — A Night at the Imperial, written by one of the theater’s own Cody K. Carlson, is a slapstick comedy in the style of the Three Stooges.…
WAIT UNTIL DARK a welcomed visitor at the Old Lyric
LOGAN — Last summer, in my review of Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theatre’s Show Boat, I wrote of the disillusionment of returning to a beloved venue from one’s childhood…
Don’t miss the adventure of Lyric Rep’s BIG RIVER
LOGAN — According to the disclaimer penned by Mark Twain, persons attempting to find a moral in his book The Adventures of Huck Finn are to be banished. Despite his…
Experience the balm of Gilead of SLAC’s SATURDAY’S VOYEUR
SALT LAKE CITY — It has been a rough year for Americans. No matter your political leanings, the impossibility of blocking the outcry of impassioned consternation from your universe is…
Utah Festival Opera’s SEUSSICAL is full of whimsy and fun
LOGAN — Just under two decades ago, I spent a lot of evenings watching second run movies at the Utah Theater on Center Street in Logan because it was perfect…
Little to love in the latest JUANITO BANDITO installment
GARDEN CITY — I got my first taste of Juanito Bandito when I headed north to Pickleville Playhouse last summer, and I so thoroughly enjoyed the experience that I caught…
Pickleville’s SHREK is fun, but just short of fairy tale magic
GARDEN CITY — What started as the DreamWorks animated film Shrek in 2001 transferred to Broadway in 2008 in a re-imagined state as Shrek the Musical. The script by David…
A charming and exciting CINDERELLA in American Fork
AMERICAN FORK — Rodgers and Hammerstein‘s Cinderella has been a fun tradition for small and community theatres for many years. Since it was written in 1957, the script has been…
Worth seeing the “brave new world” of Grassroots’s THE TEMPEST
SALT LAKE CITY — The Grassroots Shakespeare Company has been a travelling theater company since 2009. Their approach to Shakespeare is completely different from your typical theatre-going experience. Among the…
Sugar Factory Playhouse opens a memorable CURTAINS
MIDVALE — Curtains is an amusing and witty musical within a musical, produced by Sugar Factory Playhouse and West Jordan Theater Arts, and though Rupert Holmes‘s script is about solving…