Month: December 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…

SALT LAKE CITY — Rocking out in a thrilling hit, the Broadway Across America tour of Mamma Mia! visits Utah at the Eccles Theatre for one week only. With music…

KAYSVILLE — The Hopebox Theatre’s thrust stage gives audience members an intimate proximity to the cast in every productions. The venue is cheery, inviting, and it is a beautiful thing…

MIDVALE — 5 Carols for Christmas is a holiday musical by local playwright Jim Christian about five friends with the same name—well, almost. There is Carol Ann (or “Carol Prime”…

PROVO — With the smash of Wicked on Broadway for 20 years, playwrights and storytellers have been looking for new ways to approach classic stories. This can be an exciting…

BLUFFDALE — In 2023, the days of the family gathering around a single source for entertainment sometimes feel quaint. As I sat in the front row of the Bluffdale Arts…

OGDEN — In bringing the White Christmas musical adaptation to the stage, director Morgan Parry captures the Christmas nostalgia of the film, but with some live theatrical appeal and community…

PLEASANT GROVE — The theater in the basement of the Pleasant Grove city library is perhaps the perfect place to stage The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson. It…

SALT LAKE CITY — The Grand Theatre’s holiday production is a two-for-one experience for audience members. The evening’s double-header consists of Amahl and the Night Visitors and Charles Dickens’ A…

SALT LAKE CITY — Christmas in Connecticut (book by Patrick Pacheco and Erik Forrest Jackson, music by Jason Howland, and lyrics by Amanda Yesnowitz) is a stage adaptation of a…