DEATH OF A SALESMAN is full of nuance and pathos
SALT LAKE CITY — Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman is widely recognized as classic American drama, as evidenced by its laurels—among them the 1949 Pulitzer for Drama plus an…
THE SEA HORSE at Westminster is an exciting experiment
SALT LAKE CITY — Academic theatre can be tough. Collegiate stages across the country struggle to find shows to please their audiences while considering their gender-imbalanced pool of actors and…
GONE MISSING and THE CLEVEREST THIEF explore universal themes
PROVO — It’s always refreshing for me when I get to walk into a show that I know nothing about and just go along for the ride. BYU’s The Cleverest…
Go go go to CenterPoint’s JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT
CENTERVILLE — In Utah, it’s obvious that Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat (music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Tim Rice) is an audience favorite. Multiple productions of Joseph crop…
THE CIVIL WAR is a well-earned victory
OREM — “The Civil War is not history, not historical drama, not fiction, not conventional narrative. It is most definitely not intended to be a traditional musical play,” says author…
ROBIN HOOD is an exciting adventure
SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Children’s Theatre’s Robin Hood, adapted and directed by Joanne Parker, packs an incredible amount of punch into two hours. This historically detailed retelling begins…
UVU’s THE IMAGINARY INVALID is an evening well spent
OREM — It never ceases to amaze me that Molière’s plays are still ridiculously funny, even after being translated from four-hundred year-old French. And when I say “funny,” I don’t…
PLAY ON! is a love letter to community theatre
PLEASANT GROVE — When I was in college, one of my theatre professors asked my class why, in an era of an ever-increasing number of entertainment options, we as young…
SHREK THE MUSICAL is monstrously fun
SALT LAKE CITY — There has been a long history of adapting cartoons and animated movies to the Broadway stage, from Li’l Abner to Annie, to You’re a Good Man,…
The ECCENTRICS fits the bill
SALT LAKE CITY — Maxim Gorky’s The Eccentrics opens on Dacha, a summer house in Russia. It’s 1910 and the nation is in the brief pre-Communism, post-serfdom phase of its…