April 2011 UTBA Roundup
Spring has sprung and April is finished. The theatrical scene in Utah was a little bit quieter last month, which…
Oklahoma! is a Heap Better’n OK!
MAGNA — I hadn’t seen Oklahoma! in years and my two play-going companions, my husband and 15-year-old son, had never…
See yourself in Circle Mirror Transformation
SALT LAKE CITY — Jump up and down, pose like a tree, and breathe very deeply—playwright Annie Baker’s Circle Mirror…
Empress’ La Mancha is a dream
MAGNA — I think there are three great American musicals. They are, in no particular order: The Music Man, 1776…
Not Your Mother’s “Oklahoma!”
OREM – Ho-hum. Another opening of another Oklahoma! Curly ambles down the auditorium’s aisles and onto the stage rhapsodizing about…
Mullets and Mayhem at “Trailer Park Musical”
The Great American Trailer Park Musical is just that – a great American musical about the goings on at…
Caught in ‘The Mousetrap’
PROVO — Agatha Christie is a name that has come to be associated with all things mysterious and twisty. Her…
10 Questions with Nat Reed, Technical Director
For this edition of our 10-question interview we turn to Nat Reed, the Technical Director of SCERA Center for the…
Orphans running rampant in the park
MURRAY — Murray City Arts’s rendition of the little red head that could is an entertaining show for the family.…
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…