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Opening:
It’s not a trip, it’s a journey @ Good Company Theatre, 5/5 – 5/22 [tickets]
Wasatch Theatre Company Page to Stage Festival @ The Box Gateway, through April 30 [tickets]
New Play Sounding Series: Sleeping Giant @ Salt Lake Acting Company, 5/2 [tickets]
A Year with Frog and Toad @ Parker Theatre, 4/30 - 5/28 [tickets] Continuing:
Camelot @ Hale Theater Orem, through 6/4 [tickets]
Disenchanted @ On Pitch Performing Arts, through 5/7 [tickets]
The Drowsy Chaperone @ Off-Broadway Theatre, through 4/30 [tickets]
The Frog Prince @ Salty Dinner Theater (various locations), through 5/26 [tickets]
The Light in the Piazza @ Hale Centre Theatre, through 6/18 [tickets]
Passing Strange @ Salt Lake Acting Company through 5/15 [tickets]
The Pirates of Penzance @ Ziegfeld Theater, through 5/21 [tickets]
School of Rock: The Musical @ Hale Centre Theatre, through 5/28 [tickets]
Firebird **1/2
It’s understandable given this story’s real-life provenance that it would focus on one side of its romantic triangle, but it feels like there’s something missing as the other two sides end up playing second fiddle. Based on the memoir by actor Sergey Fetisov, it casts Tom Prior (who co-wrote the script with director Peeter Rebane) as Sergey, who’s nearing the end of his required Soviet military service at an Estonian air force base in 1977.
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, The Northman and more.
The Northman ***Writer/director Robert Eggers (The Witch, The Lighthouse) brings his “grim, fire-lit, symbolism-filled period piece” vibe to a Viking adventure yarn, and the result is perhaps more mainstream appealing but a bit less unsettlingly distinctive. Collaborating with Icelandic writer Sjón (Lamb), Eggers tells the deeply Shakespearean tale of Amleth (Alexander Skarsgård), an exiled prince from a North Atlantic kingdom circa 895 A.D., who dedicates his life to avenging the murder of his father (Ethan Hawke) and the capture of his mother (Nicole Kidman) by his uncle, Fjolnir (Claes Bang).
St. Louis-based comedian visits Salt Lake City this week
Comedian Chelcie Lynn will play a four-night set at Wiseguys Gateway (194 S. 400 West), with a six-show run from Thursday, April 21 - Sunday, April 24.
SLC’s Bronco Offers Up a Video Single Prior to May Album Release
The next Bronco record, Vector, will be available on May 6, via streaming/purchasing platforms such as Bandcamp, Spotify and iTunes; a vinyl album will follow, ideally during early summertime. A single from the album, “Devil You Know,” has been released via a music video produced and directed by Dave Moppert of Shadow Avenue.
Camelot, Twelfth Night, The Light in the Piazza and more
Opening:
Camelot @ Hale Center Theater Orem, 4/18 - 6/4 [tickets]
The Light in the Piazza @ Hale Centre Theatre, 4/18 - 6/18 [tickets]
Twelfth Night @ New World Shakespeare/The Box at the Gateway, April 14 - 24 [tickets]
After a pair of calendar years that were dinged-to-damaged by the effects of Covid-19, large-scale concert series are back to being announced with regularity this spring.
Opening:
As You Like It @ Westminster College, 4/7 – 4/10 [tickets]
Assassins @ Salt Lake Community College, 4/7 – 4/16 [tickets]
Sense and Sensibility @ Eagle Mountain Community Theatre, 4/14 – 4/16 [tickets] Continuing:
Aftershock @ Plan-B Theatre Company, through 4/17 [tickets]
Bright Star @ Hale Centre Theatre Orem, through 4/9 [tickets]
The Drowsy Chaperone @ Off-Broadway Theatre, through 4/30 [tickets]
Fireflies @ Pioneer Theatre Company, through 4/16 [tickets]
Man and Moon @ Good Company Theatre, Ogden, through 4/10 [tickets]
Passing Strange @ Salt Lake Acting Company, through 5/15 [tickets]
Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella @ CenterPoint Legacy Theatre, through April 9 [tickets]
School of Rock: The Musical @ Hale Centre Theatre, through May 28 [tickets]
Ambulance, Everything Everywhere All At Once, All the Old Knives and more
All The Old Knives **1/2
We shouldn’t begrudge an espionage thriller an effort at giving the standard plot mechanics a genuine emotional heft; that doesn’t mean the attempt will be successful. Adapting the book by Olen Steinhauer, director Janus Metz opens in 2011 Austria, where operatives at that city’s CIA station are impacted by a plane hijacking where all the hostages end up dead.
