WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF Shines in an Intimate Space
SALT LAKE CITY–It’s as important to choose a worthy opponent as a worthy partner. So stands the lesson learned in Edward Albee‘s deeply twisted Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, put…
WV Hale’s ARSENIC AND OLD LACE slays audiences with laughter
WEST VALLEY CITY — Black comedy unfurls in fine form on the West Valley Hale’s stage, with it’s latest production of Joseph Kesselring‘sArsenic and Old Lace. Set in the 1940’s…
GRUESOME PLAYGROUND INJURIES was anything but a gruesome performance
OREM — Gruesome Playground Injuries is a contemporary drama with some dark comedy interspersed in the writing by Pulitzer Prize nominated playwright Rajiv Joseph. I first became a fan of…
A BEHANDING IN SPOKANE is heavy on the dark, light on the comedy
SALT LAKE CITY — The Hive Theatre Company’s production of Martin McDonagh’s A Behanding in Spokane was for me a study in dichotomy, addressing the question of how I could…
Fear and crowd politics in absorbing COMEDY OF OEDIPUS
OGDEN — “The truth is the truth because it is the truth.” Or so declares Tiresias, the blind prophet of Sophocles’s Oedipus Rex who serves as the narrator in this…