POSTED // Jan 16,2012 - For many comedians, launching a “one-man show” might just seem like a euphemism for “comedian reaching for credibility” ...

POSTED // Nov 8,2011 - Elaine Jarvik and Kate Jarvik Birch describe their new play as “our own personal fantasy.” So perhaps it’s best if we treat the play as entirely fictional

POSTED // Nov 8,2011 - It’s considered a tragedy for parents to outlive their children. But is that any comfort for a care-giving child on the verge of outliving her parents?

POSTED // Nov 8,2011 - Pinnacle Acting Company’s new production of Neil Simon’s The Sunshine Boys is a study in nostalgia as much as it is an exploration of comedy.

POSTED // Sep 20,2011 - For its season opener, Wasatch Theatre Company chose the kind of musical that’s an intriguing delight for audience members—when they can understand the words.

POSTED // Sep 20,2011 - The Goodman family—the protagonists of the magnificent, Tony Award-winning musical Next to Normal—are convinced they are far from normal. But it is the way in which this one story captures the stories of so many families that makes it so devastating.

POSTED // Sep 20,2011 - For nearly six decades, Waiting for Godot has remained something of a theatrical Rorschach test for audiences. Samuel Beckett’s absurdist humor and loopy dialogue suggests the play is allegorica

POSTED // Jul 19,2011 - If you’re a small theater company putting on a Shakespearean play, you’re facing a touchy balance of upside and downside: the advantage of beginning with a terrific text

POSTED // Jul 19,2011 - Mama Rose (Teresa Sanderson) is a force of nature—a stage mother whose sheer determination keeps her two young daughters performing during the dying days of Depression-era vaudeville.

POSTED // Jul 19,2011 - Out of the well-rounded Utah Festival Opera 2011 lineup, the seductive Don Giovanni—composed by Mozart, with the libretto written by Giuseppe Gazzaniga