Take a “Hit” with ‘Reefer Madness’
PARK CITY — I admit: there was a moment after I had received the assignment to attend Reefer Madness at the Egyptian Theater when I thought to myself that I…
‘The Secret Garden’ at The Children’s Theatre
SALT LAKE CITY — The Secret Garden is one of the most beloved stories in children’s literature, and though many have tried to capture its essence in film and theatre,…
‘Red Noses’ – Remember the Black Death? Yeah, that was good times…
SALT LAKE CITY — Westminster’s director, Michael Vought, takes on Peter Barne’s, Oliver Award Winning show, Red Noses. The play follows the antics of Father Flote (played beautifully by Jared…
‘Brothers’ Doesn’t Quite Live Up to the Source Material
PROVO — Brothers is a new play by J. Scott Bronson, about the eons-old sibling rivalry between Jesus and Satan. The play is divided into four scenes–the first, as the…
Mortal Fools Theater Project got it right with ‘The Glass Menagerie’
PROVO — I read the basic synopsis before going to see The Glass Menagerie: a fatherless family living in 1937’s St. Louis. I was expecting to see something about the…
Pioneer Theatre Company’s ‘Our Town’: No Ordinary Show
SALT LAKE CITY — Even though we have spent our lives being involved in theatre, and even though Our Town is the most produced play of all time, we both…
Youth Theatre at the U: ‘James and the Giant Peach’
SALT LAKE CITY — I found myself feeling young at heart this evening surrounded by a sea of excited youth and their parents to be entertained by a children’s favorite…
Modern Re-telling of Greek at The Grand: ‘Eurydice’
The term ‘it’s all Greek to me’ had to come from somewhere, right? Even with my ability to recognize such names as Zeus and Hades (thanks to Percy Jackson) a…
Love Italiano at WSU’s LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA
OGDEN — All I knew going in was that this was a musical that had a lot of Italian. Forget about enjoying the story and learning new melodies. I was…
Beautifully Layered ‘Blood Wedding’
PROVO — Do you remember that painting of Salvador Dali with the melting clocks? What about Rene Magritte’s Son of Man with the green apple in front of the man’s…