POSTED // May 7,2013 - There was a time, not long ago, when you couldn’t look through local theater listings without finding at least two or three simultaneous productions of Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

POSTED // May 7,2013 - Martin McDonagh has a particular flavor as a writer, even if his work sometimes feels clearly beholden to both David Mamet and Quentin Tarantino.

POSTED // Feb 19,2013 - The Neapolitan ice cream that Russ (David Manis) eats in the opening scene: It’s almost too metaphorically obvious, the multiple colors sharing one box ...

POSTED // Jul 24,2012 - “I just call it ‘Utah Festival,’” said Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theatre director Michael Ballam during one pre-show “informance,” joking that the official title “keeps getting longer.”

POSTED // Jul 10,2012 - For as long as Utah’s cultural divide—that seemingly unbridgeable chasm that separates faithful Latter-day Saints from the Rest of Us—continues to exist, there will be Saturday’s Voyeur.

POSTED // Jul 10,2012 - Chicago is a show for folks who like their social commentary and media criticism to come with lots of singing and dancing.

POSTED // May 8,2012 - Think carefully about where you sit in the Rose Wagner Studio Theater for Wasatch Theatre Company’s production of Neil Simon’s Chapter Two.

POSTED // May 8,2012 - When a single song is as iconically associated with a musical as “The Impossible Dream” is with Man of La Mancha ...

POSTED // May 8,2012 - The Gilded Age: The Civil War was over and Thomas Edison was ushering in a new age of innovation and electrification ...

POSTED // Apr 17,2012 - There are certain advantages to adapting a literary classic like The Scarlet Letter, playing now at Plan-B Theatre Company—but there’s a lot of pressure, too.