UTBA reviewers sound off: Excellence in 2023
The year is coming to a close, and what a year it has been! At UTBA, we published a record-breaking 259 reviews in 2023, including our first reviews for productions…
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The year is coming to a close, and what a year it has been! At UTBA, we published a record-breaking 259 reviews in 2023, including our first reviews for productions…
SMITHFIELD — Traditions are serious business in my family. Every year, the exact same songs, food, and movies must be consumed in order for Christmas to really happen. When I…
LOGAN — The 670-seat Morgan Theatre at Utah State University’s Chase Center for the Arts was packed for the closing night of USU Opera’s production of Anastasia: The Musical on…
SMITHFIELD — Come along on a magical journey Into the Woods where fairy tales merge and giants wreck havoc on everyone’s happily ever after. With music and lyrics by Stephen…
LOGAN — Ragtime opened on Broadway in 1998 with music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and a book by Terrence McNally. Because it was one of the first…
LOGAN — As part of the Lyric Repertory Company season, interACT is a series of new works that are staged readings with the playwright, actors, and director, after which the…
LOGAN — The Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theatre presents the Utah premiere of Our Town, a three-act opera by composer Ned Rorem and librettist J. D. McClatchy adapted from…
LOGAN — Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida has triumphantly marched into the Ellen Eccles Theatre at the Utah Festival of Opera and Musical Theatre in Logan. Directed by John de los Santos,…
LOGAN — This year, Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre gives audiences the rare opportunity to see two versions of the love story Aida: Verdi’s 1871 opera Aida and the…
LOGAN — When I left the Lyric Repertory theatre, my partner and I continued to chuckle to each other the whole way home. One Man, Two Guvnors left me with…