BACKSTAGE is fun for the whole family

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LINDON — Nestled off the beaten path in Lindon, Utah, the people there have been producing plays for 38 years, providing wholesome, family entertainment.  Currently, they are in the middle of a production of Backstage, a play written by Jody Renstrom, who is also one of the owners of VCP. Her story’s action is one [...]

The Plan: 6 Stories of Faith and Choices

PROVO — In The Plan, a new play written and directed by Eric Samuelsen, we are taken on a journey into the lives of real people of the Old Testament and explore what it means to be a human. The Plan takes six stories of couples from the Old Testament and interweaves the biblical version [...]

“Hairspray” is adorably energetic

MIDVALE — Hairspray is a musical that examines rock and roll and race relations through the character of Tracy Turnblad. She is a plus size teen with a plus size bouffant who longs to win a spot on the Corny Collins show and dance her way into the arms of teen heart-throb, Link Larkin. The [...]

Covey Center Presents “War of the Worlds”

PROVO — To lift off The Covey Center for the Arts’ Black Box Theater season, Artistic Director J. Scott Bronson enlisted the talents of Dave Hansen, a local playwright. They thought of doing the radio drama War of the Worlds, but it is only about an hour long. Instead, they decided to create a play [...]

Regional Premiere of “The Girl, The Grouch and the Goat” at HCT

OREM — When I told people I was going to the Hale Center Theater Orem to watch The Girl, The Grouch and The Goat, people said, “The Grouchy Girl and the Goat?” or something like, “The Grouch and the Who? Never heard of it. Is that a new Sesame Street Musical?”

Details make Payson’s “Joseph” a Delight

PAYSON — Payson Community Theater has been called, “the best kept secret in Utah theater”; and for just cause. Playing to sold out audiences for their recent productions of Cats, Beauty and the Beast and last year’s production of The Wizard of Oz, plan on coming early to get a seat to this year’s show, [...]

Cottonwood Heights dreams big with “Joseph”

COTTONWOOD HEIGHTS — The Cottonwood Heights Arts Council, which is only about two years old, has chosen Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice, to be its first production. Joseph is a beloved musical, especially to Utah audiences. Thoughts of Donny Osmond and past productions are not [...]

Naughty Night of Theatre at the Babcock

SALT LAKE CITY — The University of Utah Department of Theatre held opening night of Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show February 19, 2010 to a standing room only crowd. This production is a hard one to review. For those who are cult followers of the film version, I may seem uneducated and unenlightened. For those of you who are somewhat insecure with your sexuality or of how it is portrayed you may feel I am too liberal and celebratory of the so-naughty-it’s-nice production.

The Senior Theatre Project

SALT LAKE CITY — For everything there is a season. This season is winter and the topic is one’s situation of experiencing the winter of life. Babcock Performing Readers and Walk-Ons Incorporated performed The Senior Theatre Project: Five short plays by, for and about seniors on February 11, 2010 at the Olpin Union Little Theatre on the University of Utah Campus.