Insider’s scoop on BYUtv’s broadcast of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
CEDAR CITY — I thought that this year’s crop of productions from the Utah Shakespeare Festival was especially good. In my UTBA reviews, I sang the praises of the actors,…
All the Festival's a stage
CEDAR CITY — Pop quiz! What attracts 130,000 audience members per year, has won a Tony Award, and has been running for 50 years? Of course, the answer is the…
NY Times critic: “I believe criticism begins not in knowledge but in ignorance.”
Alastair Macaulay, chief dance critic of The New York Times, in Ballet Magazine, August 2010: I’ve heard people say that you should have watched 800 dance performances before you begin…
World Premiere is 12 Years in the Making
CEDAR CITY — Audience members who attend the world premiere of Great Expectations: A New Musical likely are unaware that the production they are seeing has taken over a decade…
Shakespearean Festival Offers More Than Just Plays
If you’ve never been to the Utah Shakespearean Festival, you may not be aware of the many activities that the Festival has to offer. During our time in Cedar City,…
UTBA Shakes It Up!
CEDAR CITY — Without question, one of the most important theatrical events of the year in Utah is the beginning of the Utah Shakespearean Festival‘s season. As the only Tony…
Who’d have thought a little blog review would grow into this?
Wow! We’re in the middle of an exciting time at UTBA. Cats and Tarzan at Tuacahn mark our first reviews in southern Utah. We also just finished a whirlwind of…
Upgrading the site!
All this week you’ll notice changes as we tweak the site to better serve our readers and the theatres we support. It’s a work in progress so please be patient…
UTBA Wants YOU!
We’re looking for reviewers right now in Salt Lake, Davis and Weber counties. Yes, we’re openly recruiting people to enlist in the UTBA “army” of play reviewers. In other words,…
Q&A with the UTBA
Who are we? How can I become a reviewer? Awards?...There are a lot of questions starting to make their way through the digital grapevine and here is our attempt to…