“Into the Woods“ is a remediated take on the Brothers Grimm fairytales written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning team of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine. Stories such as Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk and Rapunzel are combined into an interconnected narrative. The play strongly retains the elements of the original stories.
The sound of waves hitting a shore drift through the Babcock Theatre as people file in to watch the University of Utah Department of Theatre’s production of “The Tempest” by William Shakespeare, which will run through Nov. 19. The play follows the noblewoman Prospera, a magician who fled to the shores of a mystical.