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OGDEN — It’s intense, aggressive, and violent, but entirely enthralling. It is hard not to respond to this “Die Hard version,” (Eric Weiman, actor) that the Utah Shakespeare Festival is…
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OGDEN — It’s intense, aggressive, and violent, but entirely enthralling. It is hard not to respond to this “Die Hard version,” (Eric Weiman, actor) that the Utah Shakespeare Festival is…
SALT LAKE CITY — Euripides‘s describes the title character of his tragedy Hecuba as a “mother of sorrows.” A more apt description would be impossible to find. When the play…
IVINS — I’m not a big fan of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. While Andrew Lloyd Webber‘s music is catchy and very singable, the show is often kitschy and…
IVINS — The classic children’s story The Little Mermaid, originally conceived by Hans Christian Andersen, is the story of a young mermaid princess who, although she apparently has everything, longs…
IVINS — Over a century old, L. Frank Baum‘s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a favorite among classic American children’s literature which became even more popular after the 1939…
It’s been another busy year for UTBA. In 2013 we reviewed 223 productions—our second-highest annual total. From Garden City to Ivins, our reviewers traveled the state to review plays in…
SALT LAKE CITY — At the end of Westminster College’s production of Oedipus the King, a chorus of nine actors sang the haunting words, “Call no man happy until that…
IVINS — Tuachan’s production of Thoroughly Modern Millie was nothing short of remarkable and easily ranks as one of the best musicals in the state this past year. Tuachan truly…
IVINS — Disney’s Mulan, with music and lyrics by Matthew Wilder and David Zippel, Stephen Schwartz, Jeanine Tesori and Alexa Junge, and a book adaptation from the animated film of…
IVINS — In bedrooms across America, young boys ignore their mothers’ admonitions to put away their toys and go to bed. On stage at Tuacahn Amphitheatre, Mom (Jennifer Evans) interrupts…