What’s Playing in Utah – August 2026
What a summer of entertainment! Along the Wasatch Front, you can see shows like Tarzan at CenterPoint, Newsies at West Valley Arts, Our Town at The Hale Centre Theatre, or…
The Game is Afoot in KEN LUDWIG’S MORIARTY at HCT
SANDY — The Hale Centre Theatre presents the regional premiere of an entertaining and comedic, delightful and dangerous Ken Ludwig’s Moriarty: A New Sherlock Holmes Adventure. The production, directed by…
SCERA Hosts UTAJ Staff for Semi-Annual Training
OREM — At least once a year, and more often when great opportunities arise, Utah Theatre Arts Journal (UTAJ) takes the opportunity to be hosted by Utah Theatre companies for…
Kayenta’s Miranda Wright Spotlights the 4th Year of New Play Lab
ST. GEORGE — Coming back to the red rocks to serve as the executive director for the Center for the Arts at Kayenta was a full circle moment fo r…
ANYTHING GOES Delivers High-Energy Fun at Hopebox Theatre
KAYSVILLE — The Cole Porter musical Anything Goes, which was first performed in 1934, has been performed, rewritten, revived, across the country for decades. A fun and light-hearted romp on…
Family Secrets, Passions Revealed in THE COTTAGE at Stage Door
ST. GEORGE — The stories found on TMZ and in grocery store tabloids have nothing on the sordid details emerging in The Stage Door’s latest production of The Cottage by…
Utah Shakes’s MARY SHELLEY’S FRANKENSTEIN Asks: Who is the Real Monster?
CEDAR CITY — As part of the 65th anniversary of the Utah Shakespeare Festival comes an evocative retelling of the classic gothic horror novel, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Adapted by David…
NEWSIES Strikes a Chord at West Valley Arts
WEST VALLEY CITY — There is something wonderfully infectious about Newsies. Give a spirited cast of performers a stage, a few dozen newsies, a stack of newspapers and a score…
Hale’s JOSEPH Delivers Plenty of Color, Heart, and Fun Surprises
SANDY – I’ve seen Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat dozens of times across Utah over the years. I adore Andrew Lloyd Webber‘s score, and it remains one of the…
Panto Theatre’s CINDERELLA Isn’t Serious But IS Seriously Fun
TOOELE — The Panto Theatre brings a different theatre option to Utah. British Pantomime is a lively, interactive, musical comedy that is traditionally performed around Christmas time in the UK.…
Warm Your Heart with Hurricane Theatrical’s FROZEN
HURRICANE — If you still have some preconceived notion about what a community theater like Hurricane Theatrical can do inside the Hurricane Community Center, it’s time to let it go.…