POSTED // Sep 23,2011 - “Nobody re-invents this game,” a baseball announcer smugly intones late in the deliciously entertaining Moneyball—and the same sentiment could represent the general approach to baseball

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 16,2011 - A word or two, if I may, in defense of the notion of style—as well as an observation regarding how patently absurd it is that style should need to be defended.

POSTED // Sep 16,2011 - You’ll forgive a little anxiety going into the new adaptation of Graham Greene’s 1938 novel Brighton Rock, from writer/director Rowan Joffe.

POSTED // Sep 14,2011 - For the sixth year, City Weekly has had the pleasure of recognizing some of the great work done by the creative women and men in the state of Utah.

POSTED // Sep 5,2011 - It’s hard enough for some adults to imagine themselves enjoying a musical performance involving lutes, harps and recorders. So how does it happen that someone gets the bug for medieval music in middle school?

POSTED // Sep 2,2011 - It’s time again for potentially prestigious projects based on books. Here are some of the lesser-known literary works coming to your multiplex before year’s end.

POSTED // Aug 26,2011 - We all bring certain baggage to movies, and here’s one of my too-big-for-carry-on pieces: I hate holy fools.

POSTED // Aug 19,2011 - It’s all laughably ridiculous, of course, the entire concept behind the romantic comedy-drama One Day.