A fun, family-friendly SHREK finds a home in Orem
OREM — There’s a new ogre in town. He’s tall, gruff, cranky, and very green, as all self-respecting ogres are known to be. But if one looks a little deeper,…
Interview with Mindy Young, Utah actress and Utah Shakespeare Festival’s Evangeline Harcourt
UTBA: Start off by stating your name and what role you’re playing at Shakespeare Festival, please. Mindy Young: My name is Mindy Young and I am playing Mrs. Evangeline Harcourt…
CLOSER examines truth, power, and relationships
SALT LAKE CITY — Wasatch Theatre Company’s production of Closer by Patrick Marber is a fascinating contemporary drama that explores relationships and challenges questions of morality. Specifically, Marber challenges the…
Grassroots HENRY IV, PART 2 breaks the sequel curse
SALT LAKE CITY — Browsing a list of the five highest grossing movies of 2013 so far shows that four of them are either sequels or prequels. Obviously, continuing the…
Historical characters unite for DIALOGUES
OREM — What do Socrates, Anne Frank, Malcolm X, Joan of Arc, Joseph Smith, Roza Robota, and Bobby Sands have in common? Two things: first, they all died untimely deaths…
DESERET – THE MUSICAL is true to its Utah roots
PROVO — Deseret – The Musical might be the play that has the most distinctively Utahn identity of any play I have reviewed for UTBA. Billed as a love story,…
OEDIPUS THE KING is an eye-popping tragedy
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…
Billions of laughs served at THE HUNGRY GAMES
MURRAY — Desert Star’s melodramatic musicals are kind of like a long-running sitcom; the characters are familiar and the plots generally predictable, but episode after episode they are still funny.…
UTBA reactions to Audra McDonald’s Utah concert series
PROVO — One of the hottest theatre events this year in Utah is the concert series by 5-time Tony winner (and living Broadway legend) Audra McDonald. Famous for her starring…
Davis Arts Council’s AS YOU LIKE IT is exactly as I like it
LAYTON — William Shakespeare was a literary genius—few people deny that—but actually going to see a performance of one of his plays can seem a little intimidating. Though written in…