‘one singular sensation’ coming to Ziegfeld
featured
In 1967, at the “ripe old age” of 6, Milt Olsen attended the very first Mormon Miracle Pageant in the small central Utah town of Manti.
AP
NEW YORK (AP) — Early in the morning on a two-show day on Broadway, Jeff Daniels reluctantly talks about his Tony Award nomination.
Forget everything you thought you knew about opera — that it’s long, that it’s not particularly accessible, that it’s written in a foreign language.
featured
Call someone a “Chinaman” these days and you’d better be ready for a fight — most likely verbally, and quite possibly physically.
Arrrr! Here there be pirates.
OGDEN — It’s a famous musical about an even more famous painting.
OGDEN — Just how far will a group of aspiring writers go to achieve success?
featured
PLEASANT VIEW — Weber High School’s current play, “Wiley and the Hairy Man,” features a four-person swamp monster who signs in American Sign Language and speaks simultaneously.
featured
OGDEN — DeeDee Mower doesn’t blame folks for getting hooked on the Weber State University Storytelling Festival, now in its 23rd year.
SOUTH OGDEN — Morgan Parry wants audiences to … wait for it … “Take a Chance” on an upcoming production of the Abba-fueled musical “Mamma Mia!” at The Ziegfeld Theater
WASHINGTON TERRACE — Think the drought is bad here in Utah?
featured
OGDEN — Alicia Washington remembers the moment the idea came to her for Good Company Theatre’s latest show.
featured
OGDEN — How often do you get to go to the theater to learn about stuff like string theory and quantum physics?
featured
WASHINGTON TERRACE — The latest theatrical offering from Beverly’s Terrace Plaza Playhouse is “I Do! I Do!”, a two-person musical that follows a couple’s ups and downs over 50 years of marriage.
Peery's Egyptian Theater was graced with a unique and joyful take on the Nutcracker Wednesday night with the Performing Artists Lengthening Strides (PALS) and Imagine Ballet Theatre presentation of the "Jazzy Nutcracker."
Almost everyone has seen the movie. Almost no one has seen the musical.
A beefed-up Christmas musical created by a couple of local playwrights premieres this weekend at CenterPoint Legacy Theatre.
SOUTH OGDEN — It’s a Harry Potter holiday.
OGDEN — The critically acclaimed — but rarely performed — “Caroline, or Change” comes to Good Company Theatre as its final show of the 2018 season.
Standard-Examiner staff
OGDEN — This is not your grandmother’s “Ruthless.”
OGDEN — As an associate professor of theater at Weber State University, Jennifer Kokai said she feels awful when students come to her years after a performance with stories of sexual harassment backstage.
featured
LAYTON — The play starts with a horrific, fatal car wreck involving four young men in a convertible and a school bus full of Catholic school girls.
OGDEN — In 1794, at the height of the French Revolution in Paris, 16 Carmelite nuns were beheaded for refusing to renounce their vocation.
My husband and I traveled to New York City this summer hoping to enjoy a few Broadway plays without breaking the bank.
OGDEN — Katie Evans admits the latest offering from Good Company Theatre, “Eurydice,” might be a tough sell in this town.
OGDEN — If Irish black humor is your thing, there’s still time to catch a heaping helping of it this week at Weber State University.
SOUTH OGDEN — Cue the double finger snaps.
Two years ago, when Jenny Kokai was asked by Plan-B Theater Company artistic director Jerry Rapier to create a play for a statewide elementary school tour, her mind began to race.
French spies, racial injustices, a murder or two, and a singing mermaid.
Standard-Examiner staff
CENTERVILLE — Students at the CenterPoint Academy will present Disney’s “The Little Mermaid Jr.” this week.
PERRY — If you simply can’t get enough of Gershwin brothers tunes — memorable songs like “Embraceable You,” “They Can’t Take that Away from Me” and “Someone to Watch Over Me” — have we got a musical for you.
featured
OGDEN — Given the current divisive political climate in this country, staging Green Day’s “American Idiot” would seem either a very good idea, or a very bad one.
Descriptions for the shows listed below were provided by the theaters producing them. They have been lightly edited for clarity.
Descriptions for the shows listed below were provided by the theaters producing them. They have been lightly edited for clarity.
Descriptions for the shows listed below were provided by the theaters producing them. They have been lightly edited for clarity.
Descriptions for the shows listed below were provided by the theaters producing them. They have been lightly edited for clarity.
Descriptions for the shows listed below were provided by the theaters producing them. They have been lightly edited for clarity.
OGDEN — A musical said to be a precursor to “The Birdcage” opens soon at The Ziegfeld Theater, but behind the scenes carries an interesting husband-and-wife twist.
OGDEN — Good Company Theatre will be the first Utah theater to premiere “Appropriate” opening at 8 p.m. April 29.
FARMINGTON — What do you do when 102 youth between the ages of 8 and 18 show up at tryouts for a community show?
SALT LAKE CITY — Weber State University theater arts professor Tracy Callahan knows all too well what it’s like to be on both sides of the stage. She loves directing, but this semester — while on sabbatical — she decided to take the stage again after a five-year absence.
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second of a three-part series on upcoming high school musicals and plays. Another listing will appear in April.
OGDEN — Hundreds of students from four northern Utah elementary schools are taking the stage at Ogden High School, where they’ll perform original fairy tales written by local theater teachers.
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first of a series on upcoming high school plays and musicals along the Wasatch Front.
CENTERVILLE – Audiences will get to watch some magic on stage as CenterPoint Legacy Theatre presents Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” opening on Feb. 29 at 525 N. 400 West.
PERRY – Fans of four-part harmonies and well-known 1950s classics will be delighted with Heritage Theatre’s “Forever Plaid” opening March 4 and running through March 26. This is the third time Heritage has put on the popular show and the theater does it because it is a fan favorite.
OGDEN – Weber State University musical theater professor Jim Christian has been showing students how to do their thing and how to love it for 27 years. It’s easy to see why, because he loves what he does.
OGDEN – Weber State University’s production of “Nice Work If You Can Get It,” opening Feb. 26, marks the 100th anniversary of George and Ira Gershwin being published. More notably for the local crowd, it will be soon-to-retire musical theater professor Jim Christian’s last production/directi…
