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Back in 2004, the Silversun Pickups came to Vegas (they didn’t have a hit song yet) to perform at a bar (not the Double Down), but then they saw the marquee at the Double Down promising that the Silversun Pickups would be rocking there, that night.

A string of positive and/or negative reviews doesn’t do justice to the experience of the Utah Shakespearean Festival. The show may be the thing, but it’s the talk that seems to keep a lot of people coming back.

You can’t be blamed for approaching a stage version of “The 39 Steps” (retitled here as “Alfred Hithcock’s The 39 Steps”) with trepidation. Director Hitchcock is a master of cinematic visual suspense. And for all its seriousness, the 1935 film is very humorous. How could it possibly work as a full-length comedy sketch with four actors?

For those who think it’s impossible to adapt a great novel to the stage, I would offer as Exhibit A the Utah Shakespearean Festival’s premiere of “Pride and Prejudice.”

Macbeth” is getting a competent mounting at the Utah Shakespearean Festival; which is to say, an adequate production that is inadequate to one’s hopes.

The Utah Shakespearean Festival’s “Great Expectations” is a stupefyingly mediocre original musical that is getting a first-rate production.