Theatre Reviews by Patrons and Professionals
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 [...]
PROVO — Henrik Ibsen confronted us with a very raw and central question when he penned Little Eyolf: how does one strike a balance between being a parent and being a spouse? How do we give ourselves entirely to both spouse and child without resenting or being resented by one or the other? Given this text, [...]
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OGDEN — Last week, Weber State University hosted the 44th annual Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF) Region VIII conference. KCACTF is the nation’s foremost theatre festival for college and university productions. Lasting from February 7 through 11, 2012, this year’s conference drew students, faculty, and artists from Utah, Arizona, central and southern California, southern [...]
OREM — Richard Hannay was a typical London bachelor, until a temptress foisted herself upon him in his flat. Turned out she was a spy with a price on her head. So, when she gets whacked in Hannay’s apartment, he becomes a man on the run. To Scotland he goes to clear his name and [...]
PROVO — “If your mercy is so cruel, what do you have for justice?” Set in London 1884, Brigham Young University’s production of The Elephant Man creatively recounts the story of John Merrick, better known to history as the Elephant Man. Being horribly disfigured and forced into carnival freak shows, the play picks up with Merrick [...]