Upgrading the site!
All this week you’ll notice changes as we tweak the site to better serve our readers and the theatres we support. It’s a work in progress so please be patient…
April 2010 UTBA Readership Stats
Another exciting month has passed at UTBA. We had our first mention in the print media, expanded the number of reviewers, and reviewed 19 very different shows. Looking back, we…
Gee! An Insight in the Life of Gertrude Lawrence
HOLLADAY — Gee! is set in a nightclub in New York in 1953. A group of Gertrude’s close associates get together for drinks eight months after her death. This group…
PTC brings a little substance to ‘42nd Street’
SALT LAKE CITY — A tap classic of musical theatre, Pioneer Theatre Company energetically brings 42nd Street to the Salt Lake Valley with a bevy of beautiful talent that just…
‘Ramona Quimby’ reminded me what it was like to be a child
SALT LAKE CITY — Watching Ramona Quimby at The Children’s Theatre reminded me what it felt like to be nine years old. For ninety reminiscent minutes, I got to join…
‘Stones’ Makes a Utah Stop en Route to San Diego
PROVO — Normally, I am reluctant to see a show like Stones which has a religious subject matter. I have been know to hate “Jesus Plays.” I feel it is…
‘Once Upon a Mattress’ a Medieval Romp
OREM — At the end of Once Upon a Mattress (produced by SCERA), I certainly walked away with a memorable experience. The characters are larger than life and the action…
‘Burn This’ is a strong production from the UTAC
SALT LAKE CITY — It didn’t feel like a play—it felt real. These people had lost someone they loved suddenly and tragically; they were shocked and wounded. Their lives had…
‘Talley’s Folly’ is a Sweet 96 Minutes
PROVO — Talley’s Folly, we are told from the start by the play’s protagonist, Matt Friedman, is a romance—a waltz—played out in three-four time over the course of ninety-six minutes…
Women Have a Voice in SLAC’s ‘Charm’
SALT LAKE CITY — Salt Lake Acting Company’s Charm transported me into the world of America’s most famous transcendentalists—Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Nathaniel Hawthorne—but I found a…