WSU’s DAMN YANKEES steps up to the plate
OGDEN — What can you do when the baseball team you love never quite performs? Do you give up? Learn to accept the losses? Defend your team to the end?…
The Ziegfeld is building a community with FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
OGDEN — The popular musical Fiddler on the Roof has been done in many professional, semi-professional, community, and school theaters in the 50 years since its debut on Broadway. The…
The oldies are truly golden in THE MARVELOUS WONDERETTES
OGDEN — The Marvelous Wonderettes, the current offering at the Terrace Plaza Playhouse is a lovely musical review of the ’50s and ’60s which follows four young ladies first performing…
UTBA reviewers sound off: EXCELLENCE IN 2014
December is full of annual traditions, and at UTBA our favorite is our yearly blog post about the excellence we saw on the Utah stage during the year. In 2014…
Cancer is not awesome, but WIT is.
OGDEN — It’s a show about a University Professor of English dying of ovarian cancer? And the play’s title is Wit. So, of course this play isn’t being billed as…
Ziegfeld’s SHREK delights children and adults
OGDEN — Over the last few years, many popular movies have been adapted to stage productions. This has proved to be a profitable choice for many theatrical companies, and Shrek…
Endearing production of SHE LOVES ME at Weber State
OGDEN — “I don’t know if you’ve ever noticed this,” wrote author Lemony Snicket, “But first impressions are often entirely wrong. You can look at a painting for the first…
It would be a tragedy to miss HECUBA
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…
THE PRODUCERS shines brightly in Ogden
OGDEN — There are times that a show comes along that you think can’t possibly live up to either memories of past productions or of a production that you have…
THE DROWSY CHAPERONE does everything a show is supposed to do
OGDEN — On its surface, The Drowsy Chaperone is a parody of musical theater in the 1920’s with no fear of making the audience the butt of its jokes. As…