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"Don't be afraid; people are so afraid. Don't be afraid to live in the raw wind, naked, alone." -- Roy Cohn.

Pioneer Theatre Company wraps its 2018-2019 season with some light, campy fun.

You know that lovely feeling you get when you go to the hair salon and they wash your hair in hot water and shampoo your scalp and massage your head? That was the feeling I had the whole way through Hale Center Theater's "Steel Magnolias." It's a warm, soothing, comforting show; I came away feeling like I'd spent the evening with my best girlfriends.

Pioneer Theatre Company has debuted its grittiest drama of the season in "Sweat," which earned playwright Lynn Nottage a 2017 Pulitzer Prize for drama.

The Pulitzer Prize committee described one of its 2016 drama finalists, playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins "Gloria," as "A play of wit and irony that deftly transports the audience from satire to thriller and back again."

Remember that Oscar-performance moment between Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga when the heat between the two seemed to radiate through the television screen?

Some Utahns will remember "Once" as the modest musical film that hailed from Ireland but first found fame at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. Well, "Once" has returned to Utah, this time in its stage musical version, which earned the Broadway production eight 2012 Tonys, including the one for Best Musical. Pioneer Theatre Company is staging the show, directed by Pirronne Yousefzadeh. It tells the tale of loves lost, passionate music and dreams pursued.

"A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder" begins with a musical warning.

If you are one of those theater lovers hungry for some serious storytelling, make your way to Centerville's CenterPoint Legacy Theatre.

The Hale Centre Theatre's of "The Wizard of Oz" comes closer to pure magic than any production I have ever seen.

What do you give to kids that have everything this holiday season?

Pioneer Theatre's "Sweeney Todd" is a darkly delicious, larger-than-life production of Stephen Sondheim's masterpiece.

Plan-B Theatre's first show of the season, a world premiere, tells the story of a gay member of The Church of Jesus-Christ of Latter Day Saints, facing possible excommunication in a "court of love" a week after of marrying the man of his dreams.

Before you embark on a viewing of Sarah DeLappe's "The Wolves" at Salt Lake Acting Company, you should know that the show is, in a way, a bit of a choose your own adventure.