Reviews

OREM — There’s a moment in the final scene of Blood Wedding where three fated women sit on swings placed across the stage. They rock, and slowly draw a length…

SALT LAKE CITY — On April 24, 2012, Broadway’s newest Gershwin musical made its debut as Nice Work If You Can Get It. Over two years later, Work Light Productions…

PROVO — Nearly every theatre company has done Shakespeare. I’ve seen more high-concept, modernized, stripped-down, period-swapping, gender-bending shows than I can count. And it’s scientific fact that a new production…

PROVO — In a dimly lit room above the Provo Castle Amphitheater, Galileo’s cast of ten stepped onto a raised, round stage, nine holding hands in a circle around Galileo,…

SALT LAKE CITY — As the audience took their seats in Rose Wagner’s dimly lit Black Box Theater, a single light fell on a large print of Boticelli’s The Birth…

CEDAR CITY — In one of the first scenes of Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure the title character and his old friend and assistant, Doctor Watson, reunite for the first…

SALT LAKE CITY — One person shows are not easy undertakings. A single performer has to be dynamic enough to capture the attention of an audience for sixty or more…

CENTERVILLE — The plays of William Shakespeare are some of the most well-known and beloved shows of all time. Many modern day romances, tragedies, comedies and other stories have been…

CEDAR CITY — Only a Frenchman could write Boeing Boeing. And only the Utah Shakespeare Festival could create a production that is so clever and enjoyable. Set in Paris in…

I’ll admit to being apprehensive before sitting down at A Streetcar Named Desire. I’d heard rumors of police being called on prior performances because of what looked like violence. I’d…