Hopebox’s DAMN YANKEES bats around and scores
KAYSVILLE — Whether you call it a 4-bagger, a tater, a dinger, or a homer, Hopebox Theatre has hit it. This production of the Faust story (with music and lyrics…
Make yourself at home in BYU’s SINGLE WIDE
PROVO — Somewhere west of Steel Magnolia’s Louisiana, and south of Oklahoma! is a small Texas trailer park, where five strong women struggle to make a living and make sense…
Get shaken awake by Westminster’s SPRING AWAKENING
SALT LAKE CITY — Frank Wedekind was a 19th-century German playwright whose seminal 1891 work Frühlings Erwachen was adapted into a modern musical called Spring Awakening by dramatist Steven Sater…
A not so modern MILLIE at Terrace Plaza
WASHINGTON TERRACE — Thoroughly Modern Millie, the Tony Award-winning musical with music by Jeanine Tesori, lyrics by Dick Scanlan, and a book by Scanlan and Richard Morris, is a modern…
Only “Poor Unfortunate Souls” miss CenterPoint’s LITTLE MERMAID
CENTERVLLE — As a 10-year-old in 1989, The Little Mermaid is the first movie I remember seeing in a movie theater. As Ariel sang the beautiful lyrics about wanting to…
FOOTLOOSE cast “working so hard,” but show still has flaws
OGDEN — The latest production at the Ziegfeld in Ogden is the 1998 musical Footloose, based on the 1984 film of the same name. The story follows a small conservative…
Feel “Top of the World” at Hale Centre’s HUNCHBACK
SANDY — The Hunchback of Notre Dame, created by the team of Alan Menken, Stephen Schwartz, and Peter Parnell, rings in a triumphant entrance at Hale Centre Theatre. The tale…
Take a journey with your kids to see LITTLE RED
OREM — Well, the grandkids loved Little Red at the SCERA, and that is probably enough of a review for the average parent or grandparent. I took three of my…
A BRIGHT STAR indeed at Pioneer Theatre
SALT LAKE CITY — Audiences in this state will shortly have more than enough chances to see Bright Star. Local companies, recognizing the musical’s appeal to Utah patrons, will be…
SLAC’s 3 LITTLE PIGS is true, depending on your point of view
SALT LAKE CITY — If you have been or had a kid since 1989, you’re probably familiar with Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith’s children’s book The True Story of the…