Theatre Reviews by Patrons and Professionals
SPRINGVILLE — The Little Brown Theater’s latest play is On Golden Pond, directed by the theater’s owner Bill Brown and co-directed by Cara Baker. Brown also plays the lead, Norman Thayer, Jr. The first thing you notice as you walk into the Little Brown is that it is a black box with three-sided seating. I [...]
PROVO — In the name of full disclosure, I asked to see Crossing Delancey because I grew up with and love the film. I’m making every effort to discuss this show on its own merits instead of comparing it to the film. But it only seems fair to state that I do have another version to [...]
LEHI — Although I am a regular theatergoer, The Foreigner has been on my bucket list for nearly 14 years now. I have been determined to see it ever since my sister wrote a report on it in junior high, hinting at the hilarity of the play without giving too much away. I finally got [...]
LINDON — Benedick and Beatrice absolutely can’t abide one another. They hardly meet, but there is a “skirmish of wit” between them. So what happens when their friends and relatives conspire to make the pair fall madly in love with one another? Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays, so much so [...]
OREM – I have been a fan of The Secret Garden since reading the book when I was younger. I became a fan of the musical when I saw the touring company come to Salt Lake City years ago. Since then I have been disappointed in community productions that failed to live up to that production. [...]
OREM — In February, I praised community theatre in a UTBA blog post, and Disney’s My Son Pinocchio at SCERA Center for the Arts reaffirmed my love for these productions created by and for our local neighborhoods. Under the direction of Mindy B. Young, Pinocchio is a wonderful example of how community theatre can revel in [...]
SPRINGVILLE — Zion Theatre Company is a unique theatre group in Utah. Although family-friendly live entertainment is not hard to find in this state, ZTC is unique for its explicit mission to produce uplifting drama that not only entertains, but provokes thoughts and conversations. ZTC is also focused on works by Latter-day Saint artists, and works [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]