9 CIRCLES is upsetting and necessary
OGDEN—Through the first three scenes of Weber State’s 9 Circles, I sat dreading the negative review I’d have to write. This script could be a winner, I thought, but the…
No misgivings about BYU’s MISALLIANCE
Provo — Although I know George Bernard Shaw‘s plays, I was unfamiliar with Misalliance before attending Brigham Young University’s production directed by Barta Lee Heiner. This show is a romantic…
With DAMES AT SEA, “good times are here to stay”
NEW YORK CITY — A character in a Broadway musical arrives from Utah in a strange land. The Utahn, naïve and hopeful, must learn to adjust to the harsh reality…
THE CURIOUS INCIDENT: a window into another human world
NEW YORK CITY — In a multimedia era, the theatre continues to live on because of what it provides audiences that no other art form does: a communal experience of…
SNOW WHITE is sheer delight
SALT LAKE CITY – Before the show began, I sat in a theatre full to the brim with children, all anxious for the show to begin. Excitement and joy filled…
CARRIE: THE MUSICAL is bloody good
SALT LAKE CITY — Fresh off of Broadway and as the first Utah premiere, Carrie: The Musical is a tragic and cautionary tale. With a cast of 18, a live…
A superbly acted OUTSIDE MULLINGAR at Pioneer Theatre Company
SALT LAKE CITY — Early in Outside Mullingar, the elderly Irish farmer Tony Reilly complains that his son, Anthony, “draws no strength from the land.” Yet, by the conclusion of…
DANCING AT LUGHNASA provides an intimate family portrait
HIGHLAND — Dancing at Lughnasa, by Brian Friel, shows the events of one month in the Irish Mundy household, which consists of five impoverished, unmarried sisters living together and keeping…
SLAC’s TRIBES communicates beautifully
SALT LAKE CITY — Billy has just graduated from college and moved back in with his parents. Lulls in their careers have brought his older brother and sister back to…
TITUS ANDRONICUS a mature, violent, and gory evening
SALT LAKE CITY — New World Shakespeare, under the direction of Blayne Wiley and Elise C. Hanson, and in association with the Utah Rape Recovery Center, have come together to…