Ring in the new year with HCTO’s IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
OREM — As a critic, when I critique a show that has been a part of the theatrical repertoire for as long as The Importance of Being Earnest has been,…
UTBA reviewers sound off: Excellence in 2020
Every UTBA reader knows that 2020 was a tough year for Utah theatre. For over two months, we did not review any theatre productions because all theaters in the state…
It truly is A WONDERFUL LIFE
CENTERVILLE — It’s a Wonderful Life stepped onto the scene in 1946 as a film based on a booklet called the greatest gift, and has been a part of Christmas…
CenterPoint’s A CHRISTMAS CAROL blesses this holiday season
CENTERVILLE — It isn’t the Christmas Theatre Season until you see A Christmas Carol. I almost thought this year would be the year that I would not see a production…
WE NEED A LOT OF CHRISTMAS brings the Christmas spirit
CENTERVILLE — CenterPoint Legacy Theatre is offering a festive Christmas Carol Celebration, We Need a Lot of Christmas, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays through December 18. The production consists of…
A puppet Potter Christmas
OGDEN — A Fairly Potter Christmas Carol is a Ziegfeld Theater tradition in Ogden. A parody that “borrows” (or as one character points out “we stole that too!”) from A…
AN IDEAL HUSBAND at BYU is not an ideal streaming production
PROVO — It is an understatement to say that An Ideal Husband, produced by BYU, was technologically impaired. Though I appreciate the effort of the actors and technicians to put…
Strong cast lifts A CHRISTMAS STORY at the SCERA
OREM — A Christmas Story: The Musical is part of a trend on Broadway in the past 20 years of turning popular movies into musicals. Given the financial risks of…
A spirited version of A CHRISTMAS CAROL at HCTO
OREM — Holiday traditions provide families with an anchor of stability year after year, and never have people needed stability more than during the coronavirus pandemic. The creative team and…
SOMETHING TO CRY ABOUT is something important to think about
PROVO — An Other Theater Company’s latest streaming production is Something to Cry About, an original devised work by Shelby Noelle Gist and Dorsey Williams. Directed by Gist, the short…