Don’t neglect THE WHO’S TOMMY at the Ziegfeld
OGDEN — The Ziegfeld Theatre in Ogden has taken on the rock opera The Who’s Tommy, based on the 1969 album…
UTBA reviewers sound off: Excellence in 2016
The social media consensus is that 2016 was a rough year for America. With a surplus of celebrity deaths and…
New ideas in SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD
LOGAN — Songs For a New World is a song cycle written by Jason Robert Brown that depicts a number of…
TRAIL OF DREAMS is about “Ordinary People,” but is no ordinary musical
OREM — In history, truth is often stranger, more exciting, more tragic, and more miraculous than any fiction that could be…
UTBA reviewers sound off: EXCELLENCE IN 2013
It’s been another busy year for UTBA. In 2013 we reviewed 223 productions—our second-highest annual total. From Garden City to…
SNAPSHOTS and sketches at the U: Life Through a Camera Lens Combined with Drama
SALT LAKE CITY — What do you get when you give seventeen playwrights a single photographic image as an inspirational starting…
WAVES OF MU is food for your brain and soul
SALT LAKE CITY — I hesitate to review this show using any sort of absolutes. I’m not going to say,…
A toe-tapping “Anything Goes”
OGDEN — Weber State University’s performance of Anything Goes is a witty combination of slapstick humor, unlikely romance, and colorful…
A little, happy production of “Little Happy Secrets”
CEDAR CITY — I’ll start by stating my prejudices. I am lucky to count the playwright, Melissa Leilani Larson as…
December 2010 UTBA Roundup
The tree is packed away and the presents are unwrapped, so it’s back to reality for us at UTBA. Thanks…