Hale’s WAIT UNTIL DARK thrills, but falls short of perfection
SANDY — Wait Until Dark is a tense thrilling stage play by Frederick Knott. I enjoy both the 1967 film and the play script, and so I had high hopes…
Order up some good times with WAITRESS
SALT LAKE CITY — The latest touring show to visit the Eccles Theater is Waitress, a new musical based on Adrienne Shelly’s 2007 film of the same name. The story…
Hale’s PIMPERNEL is on par
SANDY — Average citizen by day, dashing hero by night. Some people credit the Scarlet Pimpernel as the original super hero—and quite a well-dressed one, like if Bruce Wayne ever…
GYNECOLOGIC ONCOLOGY UNIT is both touching and funny
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center of New York City plays through October 21st, at 7:30 PM some weeknights…
CHESS: The game is greater than its players
SALT LAKE CITY — “It’s the US versus the USSR” both in the world championship chess match and in the Cold War as Grandmasters Freddie Trumper and Anatoly Sergievsky meet…
THE WIZARD OF OZ with plenty of heart at the SCERA
OREM — The Wizard of Oz, everyone’s favorite story about a head injury, has returned to the SCERA stage in an enjoyable production that serves the script (adapted by John…
AN ILIAD brings the Homeric tradition into the 21st century
CEDAR CITY — As one of the fundamental stories of Western literature, The Iliad has entranced audiences for centuries. In a reimagined adaptation entitled An Iliad, the Utah Shakespeare Festival…
Here’s the truth: THE LIAR is a flop
CEDAR CITY — The Utah Shakespeare Festival’s new fall production, The Liar, is so inherently flawed that I cannot imagine a worthwhile production of this play even being possible. Not…
Pioneer Theatre provides a powerful trip to OSLO
SALT LAKE CITY — The opener for Pioneer Theatre Company’s season is the award winning 2017 Broadway Play, Oslo, by J. T. Rogers, which is based on the true story…
YOU GOT OLDER touches truth, but needs to grow
SALT LAKE CITY — In You Got Older, Clare Barron has written a deeply intimate play about the anxieties, awkwardness, and unexpected joys of the initial stages of middle adulthood.…