An Oom Pah Pah “Oliver!”
Max Robinson as Fagin; Photo by Debra Macfarlane SALT LAKE CITY – From overture to final-curtain bows, the Grand Theatre’s superb production of Oliver! is a theatrical pleasure. The opening-night...
View ArticleA small rise out of CURTAINS
SALT LAKE CITY — Billed as, “A murder mystery that will give you something to sing about,” Rupert Holmes’s Curtains is the unique product of murder mystery and musical presented in a show-within-a-show...
View ArticleThese CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD demand attention
SALT LAKE CITY — Despite being riddled with problems, the Westminster College production of Children of a Lesser God is moving on a visceral plane. Haunting cello music invites the audience into the...
View ArticleFringe offering STRANGERS, LOVERS, FAMILY, FRIENDS energetically treads...
SALT LAKE CITY – The Great Salt Lake Fringe festival is an event meant to showcase performances of new and experimental works that might not otherwise be seen. The four-day festival will have seen over...
View Article“Act with speed” to see ELECTRA
SALT LAKE CITY — Written by Sophocles around 411 BC, Electra is a Greek tragedy that proved 2,400 years ago that yes, female protagonists can indeed carry a show. (Take that, Hollywood.) And though the...
View ArticleDON JUAN COMES BACK FROM THE WAR is visually striking and stylized
SALT LAKE CITY — We (and by “we,” I am referring to any person attracted to the male of the species), all know one: a man who, rather inexplicably in most cases, possesses that indefinable quality,...
View ArticleRESOLVED loosens up, until the end
SALT LAKE CITY — The fun thing about the Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival is the leaps taken in performance that would not be allowable in a more conventional setting. Resolved, produced by Company of...
View Article‘Planet’ to see SLAC’s MERCURY as swiftly as you can
SALT LAKE CITY — Mercury, by Steve Yockey, is an absolute curiosity in the best of ways. I had no idea what I was about to get into when I entered the Salt Lake Acting Company‘s theater, but by the...
View Article‘Planet’ to see SLAC’s MERCURY as swiftly as you can
SALT LAKE CITY — Mercury, by Steve Yockey, is an absolute curiosity in the best of ways. I had no idea what I was about to get into when I entered the Salt Lake Acting Company‘s theater, but by the...
View ArticleWITH YOU reaches the stars
Company of Cohorts' With You is part of the Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival. For more details about scheduling and ticket prices, visit www.greatsaltlakefringe.org.
View ArticleTHE BYRON FIVE: Still alive at GSL Fringe
SALT LAKE CITY — Families are as wonderful as you make them, a fact which The Byron Five demonstrates perfectly. Written by Max Huftalin and directed by Tristan Johnson, this Fringe production from...
View Article‘Planet’ to see SLAC’s MERCURY as swiftly as you can
SALT LAKE CITY — Mercury, by Steve Yockey, is an absolute curiosity in the best of ways. I had no idea what I was about to get into when I entered the Salt Lake Acting Company‘s theater, but by the...
View ArticleA small rise out of CURTAINS
SALT LAKE CITY — Billed as, “A murder mystery that will give you something to sing about,” Rupert Holmes’s Curtains is the unique product of murder mystery and musical presented in a show-within-a-show...
View ArticleThese CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD demand attention
SALT LAKE CITY — Despite being riddled with problems, the Westminster College production of Children of a Lesser God is moving on a visceral plane. Haunting cello music invites the audience into the...
View ArticleFringe offering STRANGERS, LOVERS, FAMILY, FRIENDS energetically treads...
SALT LAKE CITY – The Great Salt Lake Fringe festival is an event meant to showcase performances of new and experimental works that might not otherwise be seen. The four-day festival will have seen over...
View Article“Act with speed” to see ELECTRA
SALT LAKE CITY — Written by Sophocles around 411 BC, Electra is a Greek tragedy that proved 2,400 years ago that yes, female protagonists can indeed carry a show. (Take that, Hollywood.) And though the...
View ArticleDON JUAN COMES BACK FROM THE WAR is visually striking and stylized
SALT LAKE CITY — We (and by “we,” I am referring to any person attracted to the male of the species), all know one: a man who, rather inexplicably in most cases, possesses that indefinable quality,...
View ArticleRESOLVED loosens up, until the end
SALT LAKE CITY — The fun thing about the Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival is the leaps taken in performance that would not be allowable in a more conventional setting. Resolved, produced by Company of...
View Article‘Planet’ to see SLAC’s MERCURY as swiftly as you can
SALT LAKE CITY — Mercury, by Steve Yockey, is an absolute curiosity in the best of ways. I had no idea what I was about to get into when I entered the Salt Lake Acting Company‘s theater, but by the...
View ArticleWITH YOU reaches the stars
Company of Cohorts' With You is part of the Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival. For more details about scheduling and ticket prices, visit www.greatsaltlakefringe.org.
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