HCT’s LITTLE MERMAID: much more than gadgets and gizmos aplenty
SANDY — The picture my parents would always show my teenage friends was 2-year-old me, standing in a diaper six inches from an old cathode ray television screen showing Sebastian…
Run to see BYU Young Company’s GO DOG GO!
PROVO — When was the last time you were truly curious about something? Comedians, scholars, and pundits have decried the end of curiosity owing to the accessibility of information from…
Weak script sabotages SPOOKLEY THE SQUARE PUMPKIN
OREM — In a conversation with a playwright, I once asked how he responded to people seeing his work. His response was that an audience loving it or hating it…
Parker Theatre’s THE PUMPKIN GIANT is scary good
SOUTH SALT LAKE — I have been fortunate enough to see and be involved with some truly great theatre for young audiences (TYA). I have watched shows at national conferences…
Small cast is a strength of Covey Center’s MURDER BY THE BOOK
PROVO — In the first few minutes of Duncan Greenwood and Robert King’s Murder by the Book, a writer and literature critic by the name of Selwyn Piper is shot…
No escapin’ the hilarity of Pioneer Theatre Company’s SCAPIN
SALT LAKE CITY — When I started teaching theatre at a middle school on the west side of Salt Lake City in 2020, the first thing I wanted to know…
Tuacahn’s JOSEPH…DREAMCOAT still more feast than famine
IVINS — My last review for UTBA was for this exact production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, featuring David Archuleta as Joseph. With Archuleta’s run with the coat…
David Archuleta soars in Tuachan’s glitzy JOSEPH… DREAMCOAT
IVINS — Art does not exist in a vacuum. It is always influenced by the time and real world context in which it exists. As such, it is important to…
Simon Fest’s LOVE LETTERS mails it in
CEDAR CITY — Einstein made the analogy to say that relativity is like the idea that a minute touching something hot may feel like an hour, while an hour with…
Regalo Theater Company’s SHREK is a big bright beautiful show
LEHI — As 7-year-old Fiona and Shrek show in the beginning of Shrek The Musical, it can be frightening to start off on your own. Fortunately for Shrek’s protagonists and…