Theatre Reviews by Patrons and Professionals
CENTERVILLE — I adore Dicken’s A Christmas Carol. I see it every Christmas season and performed in it myself (once while I was 8 months pregnant—thank goodness for hoop skirts!). I love not only its story, but also the way it emotionally and spiritually impacts me. I go into a performance of A Christmas Carol [...]
OREM — Now that Thanksgiving has passed, the season for Christmas plays and musicals is upon us. I did a little digging and found that you can go see A Christmas Carol at several venues of the professional and community theater variety and I know of at least one high school that is also producing [...]
SALT LAKE CITY — What do you get when you give seventeen playwrights a single photographic image as an inspirational starting point? The answer: Snapshot, a play that is more than the sum of its many and varied parts. The work was commissioned by the Actors Theatre of Louisville and premiered as part of the Humana Festival [...]
SALT LAKE CITY—It is cathartic to experience a play like Zion Theatre Company’s portrayal of Mahonri Stewart’s Jinn and Other Myths. This performance does not just entertain, but also challenges you to analyze the artistic material and also yourself. The play itself is in an unusual format—instead of one cohesive piece, with one set of [...]
PROVO — The holidays are here, and BYU’s latest production has everything you need to get into a holiday mindset. White Christmas tells the story of song-and-dance men Bob Wallace and Phil Davis who follow sister performers Betty and Judy Haynes to Vermont one winter. There they find the commanding general from their war days and set [...]
SALT LAKE CITY — Opening night of Hair and it’s a sold out house. When walking into the 100+ seat theater, the energy in the space is tangible. The electricity of a well-rehearsed company exchanged with an enthusiastic crowd fills every corner. The actors speckle across not only the stage but also the house, interacting [...]
SALT LAKE CITY — I had heard nothing but rave reviews about shows at the Salt Lake Acting Company, so I was greatly anticipating seeing my first show there. The description of (a man enters) made the show sound like it would be right up my alley, and it was. The world of the play is [...]
MIDVALE — Pinnacle Acting Company’s The Sunshine Boys, by Neil Simon, is a diamond of a show that you should not miss. I’m starting my review right now with that, and now I’ll tell you why. Simon’s shows are hard to do correctly. They require timing that, when done well, you think, so what’s the [...]
OGDEN — When I agreed to review Xanadu at Weber State, I confess I knew next to nothing about the show. I was aware that it was a movie with Olivia Newton-John in the ’80s and that was about it. I had never watched the movie, and thought I did not know the music, though [...]
SALT LAKE CITY — My first time attending a show at The Children’s Theater was tonight for The Masque of Beauty and the Beast. I expected a cast of young ones running about singing “Be Our Guest.” Instead, I found myself delightfully entertained by a keen-witted lyrical script by Michael Elliot Brill. While the Disney [...]