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

POSTED // Jun 21,2011 - “Performer” is not a word Ira Glass uses to describe himself—at least not when he’s onstage, before an audience.

POSTED // May 5,2011 - Billy Wilder and Andrew Lloyd Webber do not seem like a match made in musical-theater heaven. On the one hand, you’ve got a filmmaker revered for his darkly satirical sensibility ...

POSTED // May 5,2011 - Proof is about math—but don’t let that scare you. Though there is much talk of mathematics, there is no actual math knowledge required of the audience. It’s really about family ...

POSTED // May 5,2011 - Face it: The human body is disgusting. Its incessant demand for nutrition forces us daily to engage in such gross activities as chewing and digestion ...