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Shakespeare Festival’s Sense and Sensibility

By Shawn Rossiter on July 7, 2014 • ( 3 Comments )

The world premiere of a stage adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility is the triumph of this year’s Utah Shakespeare Festival. Under the capable hands of director Joseph Hanreddy, and based on a commissioned text by J.R. Sullivan, this Sense and Sensibility is a delight to watch, […]

Performing Arts | Theater

Mining for Gold: Utah Shakespeare Festival’s The Comedy of Errors

By Shawn Rossiter on June 30, 2014 • ( Leave a comment )

This year, unsuspecting visitors to the Utah Shakespeare Festival’s Adams Theatre may be startled to find Vicki M. Smith’s playful stage set, which looks more appropriate for a theatrical production of Blazing Saddles than an Elizabethan comedy: because at the 2014 Festival, Brad Carroll’s staging of Shakespeare’s The […]