GIRL IN THE RED CORNER is a knockout
SALT LAKE CITY — Halo punches the at glove of her trainer, Gina, with everything she’s got. “Be nice! Be good! Don’t be so emotional!” she rages as each thud lands hard. The two circle around and...
View ArticleWestminster takes on living-room comedy-drama, AH, WILDERNESS!
SALT LAKE CITY — There isn’t much wilderness in Eugene O’Neill‘s 1933 comedy-drama Ah, Wilderness—until the final scene, when it serves as a lovers’ getaway. Almost the entire show takes place in the...
View ArticleMAURITIUS is flawed, but valuable
SALT LAKE CITY — Philately is a dirty-sounding word for what might be considered the very dull hobby of stamp collecting, but when two thumbnail-sized pieces of paper are worth millions of dollars,...
View ArticleTheatre Thursday: Coronavirus and Theatre
Note: Because the coronavirus situation is changing rapidly, some of the information in this post is outdated. Please see the current list of streaming, cancelled, and postponed productions in Utah....
View ArticleGASLIGHT: it’s all about perception
SALT LAKE CITY — London, in a time when muffin men ply their trade on the street, servants answer to their masters’ summoning bells, and flickering gaslights defend the rooms of the well-to-do from the...
View ArticleWestminster’s AS YOU LIKE IT is pleasant, despite some unevenness
SALT LAKE CITY — “Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?” Shakespeare asks in his play As You Like It. Left and right, the characters in As You Like It fall in love instantly. That does not make...
View ArticleLessons learned from seeing 4 productions of AS YOU LIKE IT
Between August 2021 and June 2022, I saw and reviewed four productions of As You Like It. And just as I discovered when I saw four stagings of Romeo and Juliet within a short time, there are lessons...
View ArticleLeads so good in the Classical Greek Fest’s MEDEA, you’ll go mad
SALT LAKE CITY — It has been long established that “hell hath no fury like a women scorned.” Euripides’s Medea, dating back to 431 BC, may be one of the earliest examples of the adage. The Classical...
View ArticleClimb aboard for Westminster’s truly unique FRANKENSTEIN
SALT LAKE CITY — October is a month often associated with falling leaves, cooler weather, pumpkin spice, and horror stories. From haunted houses to mind-bending corn mazes to slasher movies, Americans...
View ArticleDirecting, acting in Westminster’s FIRST DATE are show’s appeal
SALT LAKE CITY — First Date (directed by Jared Larkin and with music and lyrics by Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner) opens with four different characters offering one liners about the horrors of dating....
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