Theatre Reviews by Patrons and Professionals
CEDAR CITY — Fans of the Utah Shakespeare Festival were in for a treat last weekend. Artistic and administrative staff used Twitter to unveil preliminary designs, give behind-the-scenes information, educate followers about the plays, and interact with the Festival’s Twitter followers. Here are some of the highlights from the event. The sneak peak actually started [...]
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SALT LAKE CITY — Each year, the Utah Shakespeare Festival (USF) fills patrons’ lives with wondrous professional theater, both classic and contemporary. They go above and beyond simply producing shows in their home space in Southern Utah, however. In addition to their summer and fall seasons, the festival produces a touring Shakespeare play aimed to educate [...]
CEDAR CITY — The results are in! Below is the list of winners of the 2012 Utah Shakespeare Festival’s Shakespeare Competition, courtesy of the staff at the Utah Shakespeare Festival. The competition was divided into six divisions: Buckingham (for schools with enrollment of 2,001 or more), Oxford (enrollment of 1,701 to 2,000), Cambridge (enrollment of [...]
CEDAR CITY — The Utah Shakespeare Festival’s annual competition might be the biggest theatre event in Utah you’ve never heard about. For the last 36 years, teachers and students across Utah have looked to the first weekend of October with excitement and a hint of dread. Today about 3,000 students from over 100 public schools and [...]
CEDAR CITY — In a royal court full of glamorous women, elegantly dressed servants, and impeccably well mannered men, “something is rotten.” Not far beneath the surface of this high society, there lies a decaying core. Treacherous (and supernatural) events occur that expose the amoral men and women for what they truly are and lead to [...]
CEDAR CITY — During the second act of Stones in His Pockets, the two main characters—who are extras on a Hollywood film that is being shot on location in their Irish hometown—think of an idea for a movie of their own. Tired of the Hollywood phonies around them, they decide to make a movie that [...]
CEDAR CITY — The second play in the Utah Shakespeare Festival’s New American Playwrights Project (NAPP) is a play that has an intimate tie to the program’s mission. Written by Salt Lake City-based playwright Kurt Proctor, Turquoise Wind takes place in Moab, Utah. The play is peppered with references to Eastern Utah and features situations and [...]
I have a confession to make. Until a few days ago, I had never been to the Utah Shakespeare Festival. I know, I know . . . I can hear the gasps of shock and amazement. But, its true. All my years as a student I had great plans to go down to Cedar City [...]
CEDAR CITY — The first line in the marketing blurb for Frankie Little Hardin’s The Greater Love, the first staged reading in the 2012 New American Playwrights Project at the Utah Shakespeare Festival, reads as follows: “Based on historical fact, The Greater Love revolves around Frederick Douglass and the women in his life…” However, once the [...]
CEDAR CITY — Several weeks ago, we posted an interview with J. Michael Bailey, the actor playing Jean Valjean in Utah Shakespeare Festival’s Les Misérables. Here are a few more interesting tidbits he told us about his viewpoint about the production. (And don’t you love that shirt?) [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVRuEBvnRSE&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Bailey also told us what he saw were [...]