Get thy bottom to SOMETHING ROTTEN! at Pioneer Theatre Company
SALT LAKE CITY – Welcome to the Renaissance of Something Rotten! Here Shakespeare is portrayed as glittery rock star where his groupies gather to sing back the opening soliloquy of…
Let the Ziegfeld Theater’s SOUND OF MUSIC bloom and grow forever
OGDEN — Like many people worldwide, I have spent this week glued to the news of what is happening in Ukraine. My heart ached as I heard of people who…
Sing praise to the cast (and nun puns) of Weber State’s NUNSENSE
OGDEN — Nunsense is a long-time hit and an international sensation. With music, book, and lyrics by Dan Goggin, Nunsense was first produced in 1985 and ran for over ten…
THE CHRISTIANS is a strong start to BYU’s CONTEMPORARY VOICES
PROVO — Everybody wins with the new series of staged readings called Contemporary Voices, mounted by the Theatre and Media Arts Department at BYU. The readings give students a low-risk…
Actors, designers can’t escape weak script of THE FOSSIL RECORD
PROVO — One of the very few good things to come out of the pandemic is frequent local streaming theater, and An Other Theater Co.’s streaming production of The Fossil…
Clock in to enjoy the talent in Stage Door’s 9 TO 5
ST. GEORGE — For anyone who has ever worked a job that made you long for Friday; for anyone who has ever had a boss who crossed the line. For…
“Everything to Win” with the National Tour of ANASTASIA
SALT LAKE CITY — I have always had a deep love for anything Anastasia-related. The 1997 animated film was a favorite growing up, and it lead me to delve as…
Pygmalion’s BELLA BELLA has much to say, little to tell
SALT LAKE CITY — Bella Bella is a one-act, one-woman show, created by Harvey Fierstein, legend of stage and screen, about political legend, Bella Abzug. The action is set in…
BYU’s AS YOU LIKE IT is a bullseye (for the wrong target audience)
PROVO — As You Like It is the BYU Young Company’s latest touring show, and it is an odd production for the company. Not because of any artistic choices that…
Hale Centre Theatre’s TREASURE ISLAND is full of high adventure
SANDY — Treasure Island is a timeless tale of pirates and treachery, told first by Robert Louis Stevenson in his critically acclaimed book and revised for stage and film many…