Actors triumph in SOMETHING’S AFOOT
SALT LAKE CITY — The spring-loaded stage feels ready to snap. The chandelier hanging from a taught rope, spears mounted on the wall, and suit of armor guarding the back…
Billions of laughs served at THE HUNGRY GAMES
MURRAY — Desert Star’s melodramatic musicals are kind of like a long-running sitcom; the characters are familiar and the plots generally predictable, but episode after episode they are still funny.…
DOG SEES GOD uses classic characters to discuss growing up
MIDVALE — Silver Summit Theatre Company made a rather daring choice in mounting the Utah premiere of Bert V. Royal’s Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead. The company…
Desert Star’s THE LONE STRANGER is mostly funny fare
MURRAY — Desert Star Playhouse is a theater known for its tongue-in-cheek, slapstick-style, Utah-catered humor. As a result, I knew going into The Lone Stranger to be prepared for a…
Strong leads and good directing create a memorable SPAMALOT
OGDEN — The Ziegfeld Theatre shows what good community should look like with its latest production of Spamalot. Though working with a small budget to put on a huge production…
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN won’t give you the Transylvania Mania
MAGNA — Young Frankenstein, officially known as The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein, is a musical with a book by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan and music and lyrics…
URINETOWN is a #1 show
OREM — If you have never seen Urinetown, you are missing out on a delightfully metatheatrical parody of theatre and society. It is now playing at the Hale Center Theatre…
Change course away from PETER AND THE PIRATES
SALT LAKE CITY — Theatre can be magic, but it usually is not. Although I enjoy most of the plays I see, the majority of evenings that I spend in…
Desert Star’s LES MISERABLES – A LOT LESS MISERABLE ruthlessly skewers a classic
MURRAY — It was 1985 when Les Misérables first hit the big stage, smashing records from the West End to Broadway and culminating in a star-studded film adaptation last December.…
DOCTOR U provides the right prescription for laughs
SALT LAKE CITY – I tend to have mixed feelings about the Off Broadway Theater (OBT). They produce melodrama-type productions spoofing pop culture, much in the vein of another popular…