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Westminster’s TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA is how it’s meant to be seen
Show closes November 19, 2016. SALT LAKE CITY — When choosing a Shakespearean play to perform, most theaters choose a well-known play like Romeo and Juliet or Love’s Labour’s Lost. But Westminster...
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Powerful voices throughout THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES
SALT LAKE —As part of V-Day—a global activist movement to end violence against women—Westminster students put on Eve Ensler‘s groundbreaking play The Vagina Monologues. New, personal monologues,...
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Prepare to give your heart to LUNA GALE
SALT LAKE CITY — Perhaps the best way to gain empathy for people who are different is to listen to their stories. Sometimes those stories can be shocking or disturbing and we want to shy away and...
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BLITHE SPIRIT is a tough slog, despite artists’ best efforts
SALT LAKE CITY — If you’re looking to listen to Americans shout at each other in posh British accents for three hours, Blithe Spirit is the show for you. The play is a tricky combination of wonderful...
View ArticleGet shaken awake by Westminster’s SPRING AWAKENING
SALT LAKE CITY — Frank Wedekind was a 19th-century German playwright whose seminal 1891 work Frühlings Erwachen was adapted into a modern musical called Spring Awakening by dramatist Steven Sater and...
View ArticleTHE MEMORY OF WATER invites reflection
SALT LAKE CITY — “Speak, Memory.” Vladimir Nabokov chose that phrase as the title of his autobiography. He actually wanted to use “Mnemosyne” for the Greek goddess of memory, but his editors wouldn’t...
View ArticleAncient Greek tragedy feels fresh in WOMEN OF TRACHIS
SALT LAKE CITY — With its slowly unwinding domestic tragedy, Sophocles’s Women of Trachis has been breaking audience’s hearts for more than 2000 years. I can’t imagine a lovelier production or a more...
View ArticleMEN ON BOATS presents women on stage
SALT LAKE CITY — Men on Boats is a rollicking retelling of John Wesley Powell’s ten-man, 1869 expedition to map the Grand Canyon. It includes action, adventure, scrapes with death, humor and moments of...
View ArticleWestminster flunks out of THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL
SALT LAKE CITY — The current Westminster College production of The School for Scandal is perfectly encapsulated by an exchange between two characters: Joseph Surface: Maria, I see you have no...
View ArticleTHE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE is aching for your company at Pinnacle Acting...
The Beauty Queen of Leenane plays June 13-15, 21-22, and 28-29 at 7:30 pm with a 2pm matinee on June 29th at the Dumke Black Box Theatre in Westminster College. Tickets can be found at...
View ArticleGo with forethought to PROMETHEUS BOUND
SALT LAKE CITY — The Classical Greek Theatre Festival offers an excellent production of the ancient Greek tragedy Prometheus Bound, written by Aeschylus and translated by William Matthews. While the...
View ArticleGIRL 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 ArticleGet shaken awake by Westminster’s SPRING AWAKENING
SALT LAKE CITY — Frank Wedekind was a 19th-century German playwright whose seminal 1891 work Frühlings Erwachen was adapted into a modern musical called Spring Awakening by dramatist Steven Sater and...
View ArticleTHE MEMORY OF WATER invites reflection
SALT LAKE CITY — “Speak, Memory.” Vladimir Nabokov chose that phrase as the title of his autobiography. He actually wanted to use “Mnemosyne” for the Greek goddess of memory, but his editors wouldn’t...
View ArticleWestminster flunks out of THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL
SALT LAKE CITY — The current Westminster College production of The School for Scandal is perfectly encapsulated by an exchange between two characters: Joseph Surface: Maria, I see you have no...
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 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...
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