University of Utah

SALT LAKE CITY — This weekend I was excited to see The Wild Party as produced by the University of Utah Department of Theatre, in their Studio 115 space. I…

SALT LAKE CITY — How do you define a people? How do you show their daily struggles as well as their triumphs and still invoke the feeling of a whole…

SALT LAKE CITY — Sometimes we forget that theatre is art. We round up a group of actors and present a show and it’s judged by how believable we were,…

SALT LAKE CITY — What do you get when you give seventeen playwrights a single photographic image as an inspirational starting point? The answer: Snapshot, a play that is more…

SALT LAKE CITY — Opening night of Hair and it’s a sold out house. When walking into the 100+ seat theater, the energy in the space is tangible. The electricity…

SALT LAKE CITY — I hesitate to review this show using any sort of absolutes. I’m not going to say, “The show was this,” or “It had this effect,” because…

SALT LAKE CITY — Not many people outside of the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning (GLBTQ) community have heard of the Stonewall riots. However, for those in this community,…

SALT LAKE CITY — By far the most popular playwright whose work we review at UTBA is William Shakespeare. With this review, UTBA has now reviewed 20 productions of the…

SALT LAKE CITY — The University of Utah’s Department of Theater has made a fantastic choice in Jason Robert Brown’s Songs for a New World. Bordering on a musical and…

SALT LAKE CITY — Henry IV, Part 1 is number 6 of 8 and perhaps one of the most famous of Shakespeare’s 8 “history plays.” In short, the history plays…