Theatre Reviews by Patrons and Professionals
SALT LAKE CITY — Kathleen Cahill has been a playwright in residence at Salt Lake Acting Company for the last two years, and from past reviews the relationship between Cahill and SLAC has produced very exciting new works. Her latest play, Course 86B in the Catalog is currently being premiered at SLAC and it carries on [...]
PROVO — Okay, so here’s the thing about Hedda Gabbler by the Utah Shakespeare in the park company at the Echo Theatre: No one is seeing it. Now for some plays in Utah that can be arguably a very good thing, but in this case it is decidedly not. There are four reasons why: First: The [...]
SALT LAKE CITY — All My Sons was Arthur Miller’s first critically successful play, inspiration for which came from a story he found in a newspaper after World War II. Miller stated that this was his last attempt to try to make it as a playwright, before he gave up and moved on to a new [...]
SALT LAKE CITY — My first experience with The Scarlet Letter Is likely similar to that of many: it was required reading for English class my junior year of high school. Unlike the rest of my class who were all bored to tears at just the thought of cracking a book more than ten years old, I [...]
MURRAY — Since starting this gig for Utah Theater Bloggers, I have become a fan of Desert Star Playhouse. I had never attended one of their shows before, and have now seen three productions. They have a tried and true formula for a good night out that they seem to consistently do well. Their latest offering [...]
CENTERVILLE — CenterPoint Legacy Theatre’s presentation of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest is a full evening of satirical wit and laughs. The company presented a precise interpretation of this classic script. Although there are some weaknesses in the evening, those were easily dismissed because I was laughing at the next line. As a new [...]
SALT LAKE CITY — The Adventures of Sheer-Luck Homes and Snotson is a parody that pits the wise-cracking Sheer-Luck Homes against his arch nemesis Gorey-Hearty. Sheer-Luck, along with his bumbling sidekick Snotson, must solve the mystery of a killer who literally scares his victims to death. This was not my first time seeing a play [...]
PROVO — Here’s the first thing I’ll say about the show: it had style. Not only that, but it was dripping with style. The Comedy of Errors is William Shakespeare‘s shortest play, full of repartee and mistaken identity. Two sets of twins, men both named Antipholus and servants both named Dromio, were separated from their parents [...]
SALT LAKE CITY — This weekend I was excited to see The Wild Party as produced by the University of Utah Department of Theatre, in their Studio 115 space. I am always impressed by the variety in the U of U’s theatre season; they always seem to be doing something really interesting. This is a great [...]
OREM — One of the oldest surviving dramatic forms in the Western theatrical tradition is satire. Aristophanes wrote plays that heaped scorn and derision on powerful figures of his day, much as his modern intellectual descendants like Stephen Colbert and the writers of The Simpsons do today. Perhaps satire is so enduring today because it is [...]