http://www.cityweekly.net/utah/articles.sec-8377-1-theater.html By Brandon Burt

There was a time, not long ago, when you couldn’t look through local theater listings without finding at least two or three simultaneous productions of Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.]]> By Scott Renshaw

Martin McDonagh has a particular flavor as a writer, even if his work sometimes feels clearly beholden to both David Mamet and Quentin Tarantino.]]> By Scott Renshaw

The Neapolitan ice cream that Russ (David Manis) eats in the opening scene: It’s almost too metaphorically obvious, the multiple colors sharing one box ...]]> By Scott Renshaw

“I just call it ‘Utah Festival,’” said Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theatre director Michael Ballam during one pre-show “informance,” joking that the official title “keeps getting longer.”]]> By Brandon Burt

For as long as Utah’s cultural divide—that seemingly unbridgeable chasm that separates faithful Latter-day Saints from the Rest of Us—continues to exist, there will be Saturday’s Voyeur.]]> By Rob Tennant

Chicago is a show for folks who like their social commentary and media criticism to come with lots of singing and dancing.]]> By Scott Renshaw

Think carefully about where you sit in the Rose Wagner Studio Theater for Wasatch Theatre Company’s production of Neil Simon’s Chapter Two.]]> By Scott Renshaw

When a single song is as iconically associated with a musical as “The Impossible Dream” is with Man of La Mancha ...]]> By Brandon Burt

The Gilded Age: The Civil War was over and Thomas Edison was ushering in a new age of innovation and electrification ...]]> By Rob Tennant

There are certain advantages to adapting a literary classic like The Scarlet Letter, playing now at Plan-B Theatre Company—but there’s a lot of pressure, too.]]> By Rob Tennant

Sometimes a show is more than just good; it’s downright fun. Wasatch Theatre Company’s production of the classic treatise on botany, dentistry and the American Dream—Little Shop of Horrors—dares you not to leave humming and grinning.]]> By Brandon Burt

Don’t be fooled by the deceptively dry title of Salt Lake Acting Company’s latest production. Yes, it may sound like an academic snoozefest. But it’s actually a rollicking comic farce.]]> By Austen Diamond

To unlock the mysteries of color, Isaac Newton, then 22, took a stiletto knife and pressed the flat side firmly against his pupil as he stared at the sun.]]> By Rob Tennant

The problem with Pioneer Theatre Company’s production of Emma—adapted from the Jane Austen novel by Jon Jory—is not with the cast ...]]> By Scott Renshaw

In staging the U.S. premiere of Zorro: The Musical, Hale Centre Theatre has accomplished the closest thing to putting a Hollywood summer blockbuster onto a theater stage.]]> By Brandon Burt

For years, I’ve been arguing that director Lane Richins’ proper place is in the heart of Salt Lake City’s theater district.]]> By Scott Renshaw

For many comedians, launching a “one-man show” might just seem like a euphemism for “comedian reaching for credibility” ...]]> By Brandon Burt

Elaine Jarvik and Kate Jarvik Birch describe their new play as “our own personal fantasy.” So perhaps it’s best if we treat the play as entirely fictional]]> By Brandon Burt

It’s considered a tragedy for parents to outlive their children. But is that any comfort for a care-giving child on the verge of outliving her parents?]]> By Rob Tennant

Pinnacle Acting Company’s new production of Neil Simon’s The Sunshine Boys is a study in nostalgia as much as it is an exploration of comedy.]]>