Love is In the Air at Utah Opera’s ELIXIR OF LOVE
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Opera’s latest offering is The Elixir of Love, the 1832 classic by Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti. Despite being the 13th most-performed opera in the world,…
Pop Punk Primarily Prevails at The Grand’s AMERICAN IDIOT
SOUTH SALT LAKE CITY — There are often interesting coincidences with art and the world at large. The announcement that Green Day would open Super Bowl 60 when the creative…
Westminster’s H5 is Full of Surprises
SALT LAKE CITY — In a state that is home to the second largest Shakespeare festival in the country, where high school students and college students alike have fairly easy…
A BEAUTIFUL NOISE: THE NEIL DIAMOND MUSICAL is So Good at Eccles
SALT LAKE CITY — Broadway at the Eccles delivers exactly what the Utah premiere of A Beautiful Noise: A Neil Diamond Musical promises: a celebration of one of America’s most…
Utah Opera’s, Fidelio, A Power House
I made up a saying decades ago: B.C.M.I.B. “Beethoven Can Make It Better!” And indeed he can. Utah Opera’s current offering is Beethoven’s only opera: Fidelio, first produced in 1805.…
Forever Only Lasts Five Years at The Hart Theater Company
SALT LAKE CITY—Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years is a storytelling marvel—a musical with very limited dialogue, only two performers, and a 90-minute run time that somehow feels expansive,…
Come As You Are to SLAC’s TYA: NAKED MOLE RAT GETS DRESSED
SALT LAKE CITY — Over the course of the ten years I have been writing for Utah Theatre Bloggers, I have had the opportunity to review five of the yearly…
OPERA CONTEMPO’s PROTECTRESS is a promising look at a new opera.
Opera Contempo’s latest project is a semi-staged, score-in-hand, reading of Act 2 of a new opera, Protectress, by local composer Jessica Rudman and librettist Kendra Preston Leonard. The final dress…
Pioneer Theatre Nails Every Note in DEAR EVAN HANSEN
SALT LAKE CITY — I’ve seen Dear Evan Hansen multiple times—every production until now has either been a Broadway show or part of a national tour. This run at Pioneer…
UTAH OPERA’S “THE SHINING”…DOESN’T.
SALT LAKE CITY — The Shining, the first offering of Utah Opera’s 2025-2026 season is a psychological thriller (or some call it “horror”) that hopes to take its audience along…