POSTED // Sep 24,2008 - Short Shorts Festival Wasatch Theatre Company’s Page-to Stage Short Shorts Festival incorporates ingredients that could make for a long and unrewarding night of theater: nonexistent sets, sparse props, and previously unproduced scripts by local...

POSTED // Sep 3,2008 - It’s the home stretch of the movie year, when the cinematic floodgates open and we are deluged by all the movies hoping for Oscar glory and other year-end awards notices … not to mention all the goofy counter-programming. So why not pile...

POSTED // Jul 9,2008 - My mom always wanted me to be an altar boy. Pretty much every Sunday at Mass, she would nudge me whenever the frocked youths did something cool like swing the censer during the procession, retrieve the hosts in anticipation of the miracle of transubstantiation,...

POSTED // Jun 11,2008 - The Tricky Part The lights don’t go down at the beginning of Plan-B Theatre Company’s production of The Tricky Part—not before David Spencer strolls to the front of the audience. Already in character as playwright Martin Moran, he conversationally...

POSTED // Jun 4,2008 - From the very beginning, SB Dance impresario Stephen Brown intended to do a second run of 2007’s satirical Yoga the Musical. Brown even had a sequel in mind from the onset. “If we didn’t get shot at or run off the stage the first time...

POSTED // Apr 30,2008 - The Producers There are some American musicals so thoroughly entertaining that it would take an act of gross incompetence to screw them up—The Sound of Music, My Fair Lady, Chicago. After just a handful of years, it feels as though The Producers...

POSTED // Apr 16,2008 - Without a script in my hand, I have no way of knowing how much of Salt Lake Acting Company’s production of The Clean House comes straight from playwright Sarah Ruhl’s stage directions, and how much comes from the mind of director Keven Myhre....

POSTED // Mar 19,2008 - The End of the HorizonJohnson’s role is easily the most demanding, and so her success the most admirable. The character of Sloper requires an impressive range of expression over the course of the play, and Johnson’s performance shows...

POSTED // Mar 12,2008 - The Egyptian Theatre Company in Park City has big ambitions—bigger, often, than it has space to fit them. It is astonishing and impressive that a ski town the size of Park City has a full Equity company like this one, and ETC continues to draw talented...

POSTED // Feb 20,2008 - The title of Lisa Loomer’s play doesn’t refer only to the employment status of nanny Ana (Claudia Mejia), a Salvadoran illegal immigrant in Los Angeles who watches the infant daughter of working mom Nancy (Alexandra Harbold) during the day...