A simple, elegant show in THEY’RE PLAYING OUR SONG
CEDAR CITY — The third installment in this year’s Neil Simon Festival in Cedar City is a musical with a script by Neil Simon, music by Marvin Hamlisch, and lyrics…
Utah Festival Opera presents the best of the classics with CAROUSEL
LOGAN — The Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theatre has a history of producing some great works of theatre that draw hundreds of patrons every summer. The festival brings to…
High emotions in Neil Simon Festival’s CHAPTER TWO
CEDAR CITY — Chapter Two is the second installment of plays this year at the Neil Simon Festival. Originally produced in 1977, this play follows the lives of four different…
A “Remarkable” FOREIGNER has come to Cedar City
CEDAR CITY — When I told friends that I was going down to Cedar City to see some plays at a festival, they all assumed I was going to the…
CHARLEY’S AUNT splitting sides and slapping knees in Cedar City
CEDAR CITY — As a theatre critic, there are moments when my fellow audience members laugh loudly, and I do not. Unfortunately, I am often too busy dissecting the elements…
Finding the extraordinary in Utah Rep’s ORDINARY DAYS: Mandi Barrus and Chase Ramsey on personal connection and process to a lasting message
“There is a difference between repertory and repetitious.” This tag line encapsulates Utah Repertory Theater Company‘s mission statement which is again personified by the scope the 2015 season. Utah Rep’s…
Go, Go, Go to Scera’s JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT
OREM — Director Shawn M. Mortensen stated in his program note for Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, “I decided to tell this story the way it is written. No…
“This Nearly Was” a great SOUTH PACIFIC
CEDAR CITY — I will likely be exiled from the United States after my pronouncements in this review for two reasons. The first: this was my first time seeing South…
Wildly funny TAMING OF THE SHREW at the Utah Shakespeare Festival
CEDAR CITY — When the Utah Shakespeare Festival produced its first season in 1962, Fred C. Adams directed the inaugural production, Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, which tells the…
Not mad about KING LEAR
CEDAR CITY — In King Lear, the natural order of the world is being destroyed. Families disintegrate. Loyalty becomes dangerous. And cruelty becomes an asset, necessary for survival. In the…