The beautiful story of MISS SAIGON will leave you in tears
SALT LAKE CITY — The Broadway at the Eccles showing of Miss Saigon by Boublil & Schönberg was amazing and beautiful. Though I wouldn’t expect less from a Broadway show,…
Attend the tale of SWEENEY TODD at Draper Historic Theatre
DRAPER — With Halloween right around the corner, even the tale of a barber who loves his family and a woman who runs a pie shop can be quite sinister.…
Body-swapping for a good cause at Hopebox
KAYSVILLE — Hopebox Theatre has the biggest heart of any theater in Utah. They are a non-profit community theater dedicated to raising money for cancer victims. The recipient for their…
Hop on over to SCERA’s JUNIE B. JONES!
OREM — The SCERA has created a fun theatre for young audiences production of the new musical Junie B. Jones the Musical, and my daughter and I enjoyed it. We…
HONEYMOON AT GRAVESIDE MANOR is a ghost of a farce
WEST JORDAN — A good farce is a beautiful thing. In classic farce, it is almost sure to find tropes like mistaken identity, slamming doors, prat falls, spit takes, and…
Down the rabbit hole with WSU’s SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
OGDEN — Sense and Sensibility is a play based on a novel made famous by the classic author Jane Austen. This adaptation by Kate Hamill follows sisters Elinor and Marianne…
“Don’t dream it, be it” at THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW
OGDEN — Arguably a revolutionary horror with deep, meaningful undertones or a confounding entertainment at best spectacle, The Rocky Horror Show has been pleasing and baffling audiences for over four…
Utah Opera’s LA TRAVIATA is un trionfo
SALT LAKE CITY — La Traviata, or “The Woman Who Strayed,” is a story overflowing with emotion and tragedy nestled in an intimate and straightforward plot. It is based on…
THE DUCHESS OF MALFI deserves an audience
PROVO — Shakespeare has distorted your view of theatre. And I say that as an avowed “Shakespeare fanboy.” The Bard didn’t mean to warp modern audiences’ opinions. But Shakespeare’s work…
A soaring production of WITH TWO WINGS at BYU
PROVO — It only takes one or two productions of wide-eyed actors speaking condescendingly to children for adults to be turned off to theatre for young audiences. With Two Wings,…