Utah Opera: Little Women

A 1998 adaptation of the classic American story adds flavor to the sometimes-stodgy opera scene.

POSTED // Mar 7,2011 - Taking a tradition that is tried and true—read: centuries-old and deep-rooted—and reinvigorating it with a modern air is one way to keep an art form alive and relevant ...

Mesa Verde

Love, Theatrical Style: Familial relations and romance anchor three new productions.

POSTED // Mar 2,2011 - Playwright Matthew Ivan Bennett has described Mesa Verde as his most personal play. Sometimes, the most personal work is the hardest to get just right.

I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change

Love, Theatrical Style: Familial relations and romance anchor three new productions.

POSTED // Mar 2,2011 - In its fifth season, Pinnacle Acting Company has genuinely hit its stride.

Well

Love, Theatrical Style: Familial relations and romance anchor three new productions.

POSTED // Mar 2,2011 - Playwright Lisa Kron, known best for one-woman plays, dissects the dicey, sometimes passé, memoir genre and reassembles it with gusto in Well...

Tim DeChristopher vs. the Puppets

The environmental crusader is showcasing activism through art.

POSTED // Jan 31,2011 - Tim DeChristopher believes the environmental movement is ready to make a shift in philosophy: Get creative, and take direct action ...

Wasatch Theatre's Greater Tuna

Three plays explore community, class and close relationships.

POSTED // Jan 25,2011 - Though it’s not overkill or roadkill, Greater Tuna is a bittersweet pill. This two-hour window into the most conservative and podunk of towns...

Richard Wesley’s The Talented Tenth

Three plays explore community, class and close relationships.

POSTED // Jan 25,2011 - The Talented Tenth is not your typical race-relations play. In fact, there’s no race relations at all, at least not directly.

The Glass Menagerie at The Grand Theatre

Three plays explore community, class and close relationships.

POSTED // Jan 24,2011 - Tennessee Williams is one of the most produced yet least understood of American playwrights.

The Meeting: What Might've Happened Between Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcom X

POSTED // Jan 10,2011 - Writer Jeff Stetson has offered a rendition of how the conversation might have unfolded in his 1987 play The Meeting, which features the two leaders verbally sparring in a fictitious summit set in a Harlem hotel room in 1965.

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

New theater productions offer comedy, cookies and Christmas cheer.