Simple is better in Murray Arts’s production of URINETOWN
MURRAY CITY — The show Urinetown has been on my list of must see musicals for quite some time ever since a few years ago, when my choir teacher told…
More fun than mystery in DEATH, THE FINAL FRONTIER: MAY THE CORPSE BE WITH YOU
DRAPER — Having previously attended a Poison Ivy Mysteries dinner production, I attended Death, The Final Frontier: May the Corpse Be With You with the knowledge that I would be…
Fantastic family fun with THE FROG AND I
MAGNA — The Frog and I is an original work by Jake Anderson, the executive director of the Empress Theatre. So, I had no idea what to expect from the…
AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY is an evening of gripping theater
SALT LAKE CITY — When their father goes missing, the three Weston sisters gather to the family home in rural Osage County, Oklahoma, to help their mother pick up the…
A handsome and smart JOSEPH…DREAMCOAT at Tuacahn
IVINS — I’m not a big fan of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. While Andrew Lloyd Webber‘s music is catchy and very singable, the show is often kitschy and…
BEAU JEST is just a great family comedy
OREM — One line of dialogue from the third act of James Sherman‘s Beau Jest perfectly summarizes the current production of the play at Hale Center Theater Orem: “You put…
PETER PAN a pleasant play production at CenterPoint
CENTERVILLE — “I Won’t Grow Up.” That song title (and its playful lyrics) perfectly encapsulate’s Peter Pan, the latest musical production at CenterPoint Legacy Theatre. This story of the boy…
THE PRODUCERS shines brightly in Ogden
OGDEN — There are times that a show comes along that you think can’t possibly live up to either memories of past productions or of a production that you have…
“Come follow the band” to the rarely seen BARNUM
AMERICAN FORK — What is a humbug, you ask? A word generally associated with Ebenezer Scrooge, though its not Scrooge but P. T. Barnum that was crowned “the king of…
Sandy Arts Guild’s production of FOOTLOOSE is “Almost Paradise”
SALT LAKE CITY — I caught the dancing bug when I saw my first production of Footloose. As an energetic enthusiastic young teenager I loved to perform and was thrilled…