A small rise out of CURTAINS
SALT LAKE CITY — Billed as, “A murder mystery that will give you something to sing about,” Rupert Holmes’s Curtains is the unique product of murder mystery and musical presented…
Lehi Arts Council scores a win with YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU
LEHI — Everyone has an eccentric relative that embarrasses them in public. Maybe it’s the strange uncle who has a hobby collecting odd objects like foreign Coke bottles. Perhaps it’s…
Desert Star’s LES MISERABLES – A LOT LESS MISERABLE ruthlessly skewers a classic
MURRAY — It was 1985 when Les Misérables first hit the big stage, smashing records from the West End to Broadway and culminating in a star-studded film adaptation last December.…
Plan-B’s SUFFRAGE is not to be missed
SALT LAKE CITY — I’ll be honest; polygamy is not a topic I like to bring up in conversation. It is, however, crucially linked to the formation of our state,…
SHORT ATTENTION SPAN THEATRE has some diamonds in the rough
OREM — “A new play every ten minutes.” That’s the promise of Utah Valley University’s Short Attention Span Theatre, an evening of short plays playing in the Exbox Theatre this…
8 has a thought provoking staged reading in Orem
OREM — In November of 2008, a majority of California voters said yes to Proposition 8, a legal redefinition of the state’s constitutional amendment declaring that “only marriage between a…
All aboard for laughs at ANYTHING GOES
MAGNA — If laughter is the best medicine, Cole Porter’s Anything Goes should be widely prescribed. Though the Empress Theatre’s production of the musical is anything but perfect, one thing…
THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE is a visual feast
OREM — Acting Up!, SCERA’s award-winning musical troupe comprised of high school students, took on the challenge of Gilbert and Sullivan‘s The Pirates of Penzance and oh boy, did they…
Fall in love with Utah Rep’s I LOVE YOU BECAUSE
MURRAY — For years, both movies and television have romanticized the quest for true love in New York with classics like Breakfast at Tiffany’s and long running tv-shows like Friends.…
THE SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS is a comic gem
PROVO — In the eighteenth century, Carlo Goldoni led an effort to reform commedia dell’arte and make it a respectable art form once again. His efforts finally led him to…