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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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…
WASHINGTON TERRACE — Six years after “Seven Bridges for Seven Brothers” was last performed at Terrace Plaza Playhouse, the theater is bringing the crowd favorite back to its stage for another run later this month.
SALT LAKE CITY – The Fusion Theatre Project helps students participate in a year-long process to develop new plays in a workshop setting. Now one of those plays has been brought to life and is showing in the upstairs theater at the Salt Lake Acting Company, 168 W. 500 North.
OGDEN — Weber State University is celebrating Black History Month with a free musical performance of “Ain’t I a Woman,” which delves into the lives of four powerful African-American women.
WEST VALLEY CITY – Bre Welch saw “The Pirate Queen” on Broadway in New York City when she was 17 years old and remembers feeling awed.
OGDEN — The Good Company Theatre is kicking off 2016 with a twisty, two-person musical, “Thrill Me: The Leopold and Loeb Story,” on Feb. 12.
Editor’s note: A previous version of this story misspelled Alan Blood’s name. The Standard-Examiner regrets this error.
OGDEN — What a difference four years makes.
OGDEN – Audiences will now have a little more wiggle room and a place to put beverages at the Ziegfeld Theater after putting in what they call “new to them” seating in its main auditorium.
LOGAN – The Utah State University Theater Department will perform “Reasons to be Pretty,” a play by Neil LaBute, in the Chase Fine Arts Center on campus Feb. 2-6.
OGDEN — A few high schools are kicking off the spring performing season a little bit early with shows this weekend and next weekend.
OGDEN – If you’ve seen a theater production at Weber State University in the past 20 years, you’ve seen Van Tinkham’s work and you’ve probably been impressed.
OGDEN — Watching a show at the Ziegfeld Theater is now a little bit more comfortable.
OGDEN – The Gallery Theater will debut “It’s Not What You Think,” a variety show highlighting five short plays, Jan. 26-28 in the Eccles Community Art Center, 2580 Jefferson Ave.
OGDEN — If you’re looking for something new to do in Ogden, look no further because Good Company Theatre has you covered. The theater is starting a new program called “Something on Sunday,” aimed at providing different types of programming for the community to do on Sundays when Good Company…
OGDEN – Have you ever seen a beautiful portrait without a frame or eaten a steak without seasoning?
OGDEN — The Peanuts gang has had a resurgence in popularity thanks to the recent full-length feature film, and the Terrace Plaza Playhouse capitalizes on that with its latest show, “You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown,” running Fridays, Saturdays and Mondays through Feb. 6.
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