PROVO — Here’s the first thing I’ll say about the show: it had style. Not only that, but it was dripping with style. The Comedy of Errors is William Shakespeare‘s…

SALT LAKE CITY — This weekend I was excited to see The Wild Party as produced by the University of Utah Department of Theatre, in their Studio 115 space. I…

OREM — One of the oldest surviving dramatic forms in the Western theatrical tradition is satire. Aristophanes wrote plays that heaped scorn and derision on powerful figures of his day,…

SALT LAKE CITY — Laughing Stock, written and directed by Charles Morey, is a love letter to regional stock theater companies. Inspired by his own history with just such a…

OGDEN — “They won’t buy our milk white bodies so we kinda sell out in some other way,” says the pharmacist to the prostitute in a courthouse where several influential…

PROVO — The Covey Center for the Arts production of Anne of Green Gables was my first exposure to the story, having never read the book or seen the movie.…

OREM — Bye Bye Birdie was one of the first pieces of musical theatre that I was ever introduced to. My mother was in a production of Bye, Bye, Birdie…

PROVO — Gilbert and Sullivan are best known for their string of operettas written for producer Richard D’Oyly Carte. Thirteen works remain (the score of one having been lost in…

MIDVALE — Back in 2009, I was rooting for the brand new rock musical Next to Normal to win the Tony award for Best Musical. Unfortunately, that same year the…

SALT LAKE CITY — Every so often, Broadway sees a show that is not only a smash hit, but influences many musical productions for years afterwards. Famous musicals like Oklahoma!,…