Christopher Lawrence runs down some of the highlights of Day 1 at the festival.
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We all know, thanks to William Shakespeare, that all the world’s a stage. But not all of Shakespeare’s worlds are created equal.
Director Kirsten Brandt re-creates the frenzied pacing and dizzy business typical of silver-screen screwball comedies of the ’30s.
Happily – and hardly surprisingly – the delightful regional premiere of “Shakespeare in Love” at the Utah Shakespeare Festival proves equally at home on stage.
USF’s current version of the oft-told makes us forget the impending tragedy until it engulfs the title characters — and, by extension, those of us in the audience.
There’s no such thing as the Great American Musical. Yet “Guys and Dolls” is undoubtedly on the short list of contenders.
There’s too much buckle, not enough swash in this regional premiere to make it a truly transporting theatrical voyage.
William Shakespeare’s the inspiration for the 56th annual Utah Shakespeare Festival in Cedar City. But he’s also the star.
Oscar Goodman, the former mayor of Las Vegas and city’s famed “Mob Lawyer,” was nearly a member of the so-called O.J. Simpson “Dream Team” of defense attorneys in his 1995 double-murder trial.
Barefoot young people ages 6-19 eagerly scurried onto a slick, grey dance floor on a recent Monday. They were all smiling and chatting until instructor Tyrell “Mr. T” Rolle called out a five-count for them to get into position.