Double Christmas pleasure with AMAHL and A CHRISTMAS CAROL
SALT LAKE CITY — How many crippled boys can be miraculously healed through the magic of Christmas? On the stage of the Grand Theatre, the answer is two per night.…
Salt Lake Acting Company’s PINKALICIOUS THE MUSICAL is pinkatastic
SALT LAKE CITY — I wouldn’t normally jump at the chance to see a production entitled Pinkalicious: the Musical, but as a parent of a Pinkalicious-loving kid, I had to…
“Countin’ on you” to see SCERA’s BEST CHRISTMAS PAGEANT EVER
OREM — An unexpected gem of a show is playing now on the SCERA stage: The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. Audience members who would normally pass on this old chestnut…
AFTERGLOW fails to shine at Utah Rep
SALT LAKE CITY – Fresh from Off-Broadway, Utah Repertory Theater Company presents Afterglow, a raw and intimate one-act play. Directed by Josh Patterson and written by S. Asher Gelman, Afterglow…
ELF THE MUSICAL’s script is “in the way” of CenterPoint’s cast
CENTERVILLE — In what is sure to become a regular in the Utah Christmas theatre scene, CenterPoint Legacy Theatre opened a production of Elf the Musical, written by Thomas Meehan…
Christ is in Christmas at HCTO’s A CHRISTMAS CAROL
OREM — It’s been years since I have seen A Christmas Carol at Hale Center Theatre in Orem, and this season’s production, directed by Jerry Elison, was even better than…
DISTANCE OF THE MOON waxes and wanes
SALT LAKE CITY — The best way to describe the story of The Distance of the Moon is as a modern myth for adults. Like an ancient Greek myth, the…
Cast fails to make me fall in love with BIG LOVE
Big Love plays at the Babcock Theater on University of Utah campus thru Nov 18th at 2pm and 7:30pm. Tickets are $18 and can be purchased at https://tickets.utah.edu/events/big-love.
A beaming production of RADIUM GIRLS at BYU
PROVO — When women working at a factor in New Jersey start falling ill, the cause seems mysterious. Doctors blame poor hygiene, infectious disease, and bad luck. When the true…
Utah Opera’s CANDIDE is a wacky spectacle
SALT LAKE CITY — Candide is indeed a many splendid thing. Endlessly rewritten and unquestionably unwieldy, it’s essentially a comedic operetta, and in the hands of the Utah Opera and…