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Forbidden Loves

Romeo & Juliet and Stop Kiss deliver bittersweet theatrical valentines.

By Scott Renshaw & Rob Tennant
POSTED // Feb 19,2009 - This has always been a problematic play for me. What starts out as a bawdy satire on foolish young love takes, well, a bit of a turn. Either that, or its the most brilliant and misinterpreted dark comedy of all time. Im going to stick with the traditional reading, though.

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Theater | Family Affairs: A big theater company gets historical, while a small one gets intimate.

By Scott Renshaw & Rob Tennant
POSTED // Jan 14,2009 - nThe Yellow Leaf nCharles Morey loves artists and the moment of artistic inspiration—but maybe, just maybe, it’s time to move on. nOver the course of his tenure as Pioneer Theatre Company artistic director, Morey has seen several of his own original plays produced. And it’s clear that his preferred subject is the moment of the muse: his interpretation of The Three Musketeers with...

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Theater | Bits & Pieces: An amputee war veteran and Frankenstein’s monster headline Halloween theater productions.

By Scott Renshaw & Rob Tennant
POSTED // Oct 29,2008 - Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter nWelcome Home, Jenny Sutter is playwright Julie Marie Myatt’s take on the homecoming of a disabled Iraq War veteran. I don’t buy it. nJenny (Deena Marie Manzanares) is a Marine, and while she’s ready to be out of the war, she’s not quite ready to go all the way home. Instead, she’s going to take a detour without intermission and learn a coup...

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Theater | Flash and Trash: Local theater comedy comes in two very different forms

By Scott Renshaw & Rob Tennant
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...

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Theater | Family Affairs: Two plays about parent-child relations, but only one that gets it just right

By Scott Renshaw & Rob Tennant
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...

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Theater | What Fools These Mothers Be: Living Out’s parental angst, and Midsummer’s Shakespearean fantasy

By Scott Renshaw & Rob Tennant
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...

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Golden Oldies

Satisfying nostalgic comedies hit local stages for the holidays.

By Scott Renshaw & Rob Tennant
POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - You Can’t Take It With YounnComedy, as a rule, doesn’t age very well. Sure, vintage physical comedy can cross generational lines (see: Keaton, Buster or Stooges, Three). But verbal comedy often depends on surprise, or on breaking boundaries,...

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Double Play

Two local shows address grief and healing.

By Scott Renshaw & Rob Tennant
POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Ice GlennSalt Lake Acting Company has earned its reputation as a place for challenging, offbeat theater'but that doesn’t mean there’s no place there for a satisfying, well-observed character study. On an estate in rural Massachusetts circa...

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Opera and Shakespeare

A pinball wizard in Park City and a jealous Moor at Pioneer Theatre Company

By Scott Renshaw & Rob Tennant
POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - The Who’s Tommy ttIn 1969, The Who invented the genre of “rock opera” with Tommy. This month at the Egyptian Theatre in Park City, The Who’s Tommy, as it is billed, gives us the opera'but somehow forgets to rock. I started to worry...
 
 
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