Don’t Wait, Go See WAITING FOR GODOT at Good Company Theatre
OGDEN — Samuel Beckett’s classic take on absurdist theatre, Waiting For Godot, was first published in 1952 so it was shocking to find only two prior reviews in our publication…
UBU ROI is an absurdist delight at the GSL Fringe Festival
SALT LAKE CITY — Ubu Roi, written by Alfred Jarry (directed by Jordan Reynosa), is an interactive, absurdist comedy featuring Juls Marino as Papa Turd, who wants to kill King…
SMALL BOX WITH A REVOLVER is a bullseye
SALT LAKE CITY — In Small Box With a Revolver, Sam and Gene are strangers who do not why or how they have woken up in a locked room with…
A lifeless ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD at BYU
PROVO — In one of his most famous monologues, Shakespeare wrote, “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their…
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…
JAWBONE’S DAUGHTER is going places
SALT LAKE CITY — In The Jawbone’s Daughter, as an absurdist piece by writer Eric Paul Lyman, there really is no story, because the story doesn’t matter. There is a…
ELIZABETH BAM is unconventionally expressive
SALT LAKE CITY — Typically I like to begin a review with a summary of the show I attended, disclosing just enough of the plot to provide a framework for…
SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR asks fascinating questions
SALT LAKE CITY — In 1921, Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello premiered Six Characters in Search of an Author. It was a curious piece of theatre unlike anything his audiences were…
STEADMAN & WALKER is a gory Halloween show
SALT LAKE CITY — The world premiere of The Hive Theatre Company’s Steadman & Walker (Zombie LLC) is among the most unique theater experiences I’ve had this year. And is…
Studio 115’s ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD entertains and enlivens
SALT LAKE CITY — It’s refreshing as a reviewer to be able to see a show that doesn’t often grace our Utah stages. I don’t really mind seeing Joseph and…