http://www.cityweekly.net/utah/articles.sec-8377-1-theater.html 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.]]> By Scott Renshaw

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.]]> By Scott Renshaw

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.]]> By Brandon Burt

For nearly six decades, Waiting for Godot has remained something of a theatrical Rorschach test for audiences. Samuel Beckett’s absurdist humor and loopy dialogue suggests the play is allegorica]]> By Scott Renshaw

If you’re a small theater company putting on a Shakespearean play, you’re facing a touchy balance of upside and downside: the advantage of beginning with a terrific text]]> By Scott Renshaw

Mama Rose (Teresa Sanderson) is a force of nature—a stage mother whose sheer determination keeps her two young daughters performing during the dying days of Depression-era vaudeville. ]]> By Austen Diamond

Out of the well-rounded Utah Festival Opera 2011 lineup, the seductive Don Giovanni—composed by Mozart, with the libretto written by Giuseppe Gazzaniga]]>