Its a real Jungle out there
February 3rd, 2008, 4:25 pm Hobbies Ideas
This week’s stage openings include some family fare, as well as at least one that’s definitely not for children.
%26#8226; �AS YOU LIKE IT,� is playing at Dixie State College’s Black Box Theater, on the college campus in St. George. Performances will be Tuesday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m.
Ticket are $1 for students, faculty and staff; $5 for 5-17 year olds; $13 for seniors and $15 for adults. Call 435-652-7800 or visit culturalarts.dixie.edu.
%26#8226; A READING OF �BEOWULF� will be done in conjunction with the Weber Reads project, which is a collaboration between Weber State University and Weber County Libraries and School District. The epic poem, �Beowulf,� was selected for the yearlong project. WSU student Clayton David Gerrard did the adaptation, which will be acted by students from the theater department and directed by Nikki Pappas. It will be Thursday at 1 p.m. in the WSU Stewart Library.
The performance is free and open to the public.
%26#8226; A MUSICAL ADAPTATION OF �THE JUNGLE BOOK,� is being produced by the Theatre for Young Audiences troupe at Brigham Young University beginning Friday and running through Feb. 16, with no performances on Sundays or Mondays. The play begins at 7:30 p.m., with 2 p.m. matinees on Saturdays, in the Nelke Theatre on the BYU campus.
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Allison Belnap, who directs the show, sees it as a meditation on repentance, a story of forgiveness vs. revenge.
Tickets are $10, $6 for students, faculty and children on weeknights and $7 for the same groups on weekends. Matinees are $5. Tickets are available through the Fine Arts Ticket Office, performances.byu.edu or call 801-422-4322.
%26#8226; �LIVING OUT� is a production by Pygmalion Theatre Company. It’s a story of the relationship between a Salvadoran nanny and the Anglo attorney who employs her. The nanny has left her own child behind to come to the United States, illegally, in hopes of building a better life for them both. The drama, written by Lisa Loomer, does have some comedic parts. It plays from Friday through Feb. 23 at the Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South. The production begins at 7:30 p.m. on Thursdays, at 8 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays and at 2 p.m. on Sundays. There is also a matinee on Feb. 23 at 3 p.m., followed by a free post-play discussion at 5 p.m. Tickets are $20, $12 for students, and can be purchased at pygmalionproductions.org.
%26#8226; �THE PHANTOM OF THE OBT� is a return engagement of an Off Broadway Theatre original. The play features a little about the OBT’s history, as well as a parody of the more well-known �Phantom.� Written by Eric Jensen and directed by Shauna Brand, the play runs Friday through March 15 on Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. at the Off Broadway Theatre, 272 S. Main. There’s no show on Feb. 11. Tickets range from $8 to $16. Call 355-4628 for reservations.
%26#8226; �THE PHILADELPHIA STORY� takes the stage at Southern Utah University Thursday through Saturday and again Feb. 14-16 at 7:30 p.m. in the Auditorium Theatre on the Cedar City campus. Directed by Richard Bugg, the classic comedy tells the story of a young socialite and the wacky events leading up to her wedding.
The play is being produced under the auspices of the university’s theater arts and dance department. Tickets are $10, free for SUU students, $8 for faculty and staff and $5 for children and other students. Call 435-865-8800 or visit www.suu.edu/arts
%26#8226; EVE ENSLER’S �THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES� is being presented by Westminster College Thursday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the Vieve Gore Concert Hall, 1840 S. 1300 East. Every February Ensler’s V-Day Organization allows the play to be presented royalty-free on college campuses to raise money and awareness to end violence against women. All funds raised by Westminster College will benefit the local Rape Recovery Center and also women recovering from Hurricane Katrina.
Ensler’s play is a compilation of monologues by several hundred women who talk about their experiences of sexuality. Tickets are $10. For details, call 832-2457
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