WITH YOU at the Great Salt Lake Fringe is startingly real
SALT LAKE CITY — With You is a world premiere play, written and directed by Jamie Wilcox, that is part of the Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival. The show starts…
NO MERCY is thought-provoking — no holds barred
NEW YORK CITY — Being a member of the American Theatre Critics Association, I have had the opportunity to see and do things outside of the Utah theatre scene and…
Klouns flies high with ICARUS
PROVO — Klouns is my new favorite theater company, and the best thing to happen to Utah arts in a while. Their premiere production of Icarus this weekend was a…
Plan-B Theatre’s AFTERSHOCK has cracks in its foundation
SALT LAKE CITY — Plan-B Theatre’s premiere of Aftershock, a play written by up-and-coming writer Iris Salazar, is set in contemporary, post-earthquake, post-lockdown Salt Lake. But Aftershock is not a…
Actors, designers can’t escape weak script of THE FOSSIL RECORD
PROVO — One of the very few good things to come out of the pandemic is frequent local streaming theater, and An Other Theater Co.’s streaming production of The Fossil…
Pioneer Theatre’s THE MESSENGER is beautiful, relevant and weird
SALT LAKE CITY — “A Very, Very Loose Adaptation of An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen,” Jeff Talbott’s The Messenger at Pioneer Theater Company is a beautiful example…
SYMPATHIZER is unafraid to get messy
SALT LAKE CITY — “Human rights are black and white, but human beings aren’t” is the thesis at the heart of playwright Serena Collins’s new play, Sympathizer. Set in a…
THE BEST THING ABOUT CHRISTMAS is a welcome new addition
TAYLORSVILLE — I am constantly saying we need new material for the stage for the holiday season, so I was excited to learn earlier this year that Nashville-based song composer…
GOLD MOUNTAIN needs refining
WEST VALLEY CITY — The Utah Shakespeare Festival is venturing into new territory by producing their first full production in the Salt Lake metro area. Gold Mountain is a new…
ESCAPE FROM PLANET DEATH! mixes sci-fi and comedy on stage
PROVO — Science fiction plays are rare, likely because many of the genre’s staples, like laser guns and transporter devices, are hard to depict on stage. That has not stopped…