“Say I Do” to MAMMA MIA at the Ziegfeld
OGDEN — Growing up, my older sister loved rocking out to ABBA in the morning as we were hurrying to…
UTBA reviewers sound off: EXCELLENCE IN 2018
It’s time for the annual UTBA retrospective, where our reviewers send kudos to all the excellent productions they saw in…
Tuacahn’s MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET is worth billions
The Tuacahn Center for the Arts production of Million Dollar Quartet plays at the Indoor Hafen Theatre (1100 Tuacahn Drive,…
MAMMA MIA! is ABBA’s dabba, quite a doo!
SALT LAKE CITY — In her director’s notes for Mamma Mia!, Patricia Wilcox wrote, “What is left to say about a show…
Weber State’s CLASS OF ’94 stages a timely conversation
OGDEN — Director Jennifer Kokai, with the help of the Hurst Foundation, commissioned playwright Diana Grisanti to write a play…
Get shaken awake by Westminster’s SPRING AWAKENING
SALT LAKE CITY — Frank Wedekind was a 19th-century German playwright whose seminal 1891 work Frühlings Erwachen was adapted into a modern musical…
With AIDA, the Hale creates a spectacular debut in new facility
SANDY — Last Thursday night, I attended the grand opening gala for the new Hale Center Theatre in Sandy City. It…
The Off-Broadway Theater’s A NIGHT AT THE IMPERIAL is a flop
SALT LAKE CITY — A Night at the Imperial, written by one of the theater’s own Cody K. Carlson, is a…
It makes sense to see NUNSENSE at the SCERA
OREM — I always look forward to attending the opening productions for both the indoor and outdoor seasons at the SCERA theater.…
JANE k-EYRE-aoke at HCT Orem
OREM — Given Utah audiences’ love of musicals, Victorian Gothic romance, and period costumes, the musical version of Jane Eyre, now…