Weber State’s CLASS OF ’94 stages a timely conversation
OGDEN — Director Jennifer Kokai, with the help of the Hurst Foundation, commissioned playwright Diana Grisanti to write a play that would premiere at Weber State University. This play, titled…
Director leaves Pioneer’s TWELFTH NIGHT adrift
SALT LAKE CITY — Taking my seats at Pioneer Theater for Twelfth Night, I saw a promising lovely model ship in the center of the stage. Surrounding the stage was…
Performances of adapted SIX CHARACTERS script still satisfy
PROVO — In Utah, theater companies proliferate like rabbits, and An Other Theater Company has just joined us, with a new production of Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of…
Sackerson’s ETIQUETTE explores communication in an unforgettable experience
SALT LAKE CITY – Advertised as an immersive experience for two, Etiquette is a theatrical experience like none other. Arriving at our table within the café, my husband and I…
Make yourself at home in BYU’s SINGLE WIDE
PROVO — Somewhere west of Steel Magnolia’s Louisiana, and south of Oklahoma! is a small Texas trailer park, where five strong women struggle to make a living and make sense…
A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE is a sight worth seeing
SALT LAKE CITY — When Arthur Miller‘s name is in the “byline” of a play, audiences can be assured of an evening of great writing, fascinating characters, introspection, and illumination.…
BYU’s MARY STUART shows the Tudors as bloody as ever
PROVO — Elizabeth I was not always “Good Queen Bess,” certainly not to her cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots, whose claim to the throne of England was at least as…
ROBIN HOOD at Utah Children’s Theatre is one for the boys
SOUTH SALT LAKE — Woooosh! A real arrow flies across the stage in the opening moments of Robin Hood under the direction of Joanne Parker at the Utah Children’s Theatre.…
Living a label at Utah Rep’s STRAIGHT
SALT LAKE CITY – In a world where labels seem to be increasingly significant, individuals are constantly reaching out for ways to define their identity, or to reject it. Labels…
Get shaken awake by Westminster’s SPRING AWAKENING
SALT LAKE CITY — Frank Wedekind was a 19th-century German playwright whose seminal 1891 work Frühlings Erwachen was adapted into a modern musical called Spring Awakening by dramatist Steven Sater…