Coming home to the Utah Shakespeare Festival

Every time I see a play at the Utah Shakespeare Festival, I’m reminded of why I love live theater. From top-notch acting to superlative production values, Utah Shakes delivers on its promise to “bring the works of Shakespeare and other storytellers to life through the Festival Experience.”

Pocket Play Review: Bard on the Beach takes The Two Gentlemen of Verona back to the future

Bard on the Beach modernizes Shakespeare’s “The Two Gentlemen of Verona” with affection and creativity, revisiting the famously unsatisfying ending to give a modern audience reason to cheer.

Pocket Play Review: Island Shakespeare Festival delivers a hilarious and touching Much Ado About Nothing

Island Shakespeare Company’s tight and talented cast delivers a laugh-out-loud production of Much Ado About Nothing.

Pocket Play Review: GreenStage gives us a killer Richard III with Shakespeare in the park

Played simply and with fierce energy, GreenStage’s Richard III is a fine way to pass a summer evening in a Seattle park.

Pocket Play Review: The Merchant of Venice in a modern verse translation with the Portland Shakespeare Project

I commend Portland Shakespeare Project for taking on Shakespeare’s difficult “The Merchant of Venice” with the intention of making the story more accessible to the audience.

Pocket Play Review: A lively Love’s Labour’s Lost with the Lanes Coven Theater Co.

In “Love’s Labour’s Lost,” Lanes Coven Theater Company has given us a story of shared humanity that calls us to celebrate the time we have, together.

Pocket Play Review: A Klingon Hamlet with the Ronin Theatre Company

In a thrilling fusion of Shakespeare’s classic revenge tragedy and the interstellar camp of Star Trek, Ronin Theatre Company’s “A Klingon Hamlet” boldly goes where no Bard has gone before.

Pocket Play Review: Hamlet at the Nevada Shakespeare Festival

The Nevada Shakespeare Festival wraps the Bard’s greatest play in an engaging, creative package but stays sweetly faithful to the family drama at the story’s heart.

How did you celebrate your book launch?

Q: Your book Blue Mountain Rose was officially launched on Shakespeare’s birthday, April 23, 2025. A book launch is a big milestone in a book’s life. How did you celebrate? A: My first idea for launching Blue Mountain Rose was to throw a party at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, where my love for Shakespeare’s playsContinueContinue reading “How did you celebrate your book launch?”