Good Co wins first place in the PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE
OGDEN — The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is a delightful musical that entered the scene in 2005. With music and lyrics by William Finn, a book by Rachel…
Tuacahn’s JOSEPH…DREAMCOAT still more feast than famine
IVINS — My last review for UTBA was for this exact production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, featuring David Archuleta as Joseph. With Archuleta’s run with the coat…
Hungry for more after LITTLE SHOP Of HORRORS at West Valley Arts
WEST VALLEY CITY — In a decade not so long ago on Skid Row, a mysterious plant is purchased during a solar eclipse by a kindly nerd named Seymour Krelborn.…
A fine Utah tradition lives in Eagle Mountain’s COMEDY OF ERRORS
EAGLE MOUNTAIN — Something interesting happens whenever a critical mass of Utahns get together: they put on a play. Less than three years after the establishment of Salt Lake City,…
National tour of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD is essential viewing
SALT LAKE CITY – On February 23, 2020, a black man named Ahmaud Arbery was shot dead by a group of white men while he was on a Sunday jog…
A leaky show in Hale Centre Theatre’s THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN
SANDY — The Unsinkable Molly Brown has never been a great musical, even though it features words and lyrics written by Meredith Willson, creator of The Music Man, one of…
Leads so good in the Classical Greek Fest’s MEDEA, you’ll go mad
SALT LAKE CITY — It has been long established that “hell hath no fury like a women scorned.” Euripides’s Medea, dating back to 431 BC, may be one of the…
Kallisti’s ANGELS IN AMERICA PART 1 has a halo that dims at times
SALT LAKE CITY — Part I of Tony Kushner‘s Angels in America: Millennium Approaches drops the audience into an anxiety addled New York City in the 1980s. While the AIDS…
SGMT’s CRAZY FOR YOU is a tap-dancin’, bass slappin’ good time
ST. GEORGE — After an energetic performance of Crazy for You at St. George Musical Theater, it is clear the cast has got rhythm and they’ve got music. So, as…
PCT’s MATILDA is a miracle of a show
PAYSON — When the Broadway adaptation of Roald Dahl‘s classic novel Matilda burst onto the scene in 2013 it made quite the splash both in the U.S. and on the…