Westminster’s AS YOU LIKE IT is pleasant, despite some unevenness
SALT LAKE CITY — “Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?” Shakespeare asks in his play As You Like It. Left and right, the characters in As You…
BYU’s AS YOU LIKE IT is a bullseye (for the wrong target audience)
PROVO — As You Like It is the BYU Young Company’s latest touring show, and it is an odd production for the company. Not because of any artistic choices that…
A rusty, not rustic, AS YOU LIKE IT from Grassroots Shakespeare
OREM — The Grassroots Shakespeare Company is the latest theatre company to bounce back from the COVID-19 pandemic. Their first production is Shakespeare‘s pastoral comedy, As You Like It. While…
Stream a Utah theatre production during your self-isolation
As the theatre companies reel from the effects of the coronavirus, a new trend has emerged in the theatre world: streaming productions. The New York Times has reported on the…
Not enough cohesion to make it AS YOU LIKE IT
PROVO — At the Castle Amphitheater, audiences can take a trip to the Forest of Arden, where Shakespeare‘s mix of exiled courtiers and idealized shepherds mingle about in idyllic repose.…
Too slow and uneven for this show to be AS YOU LIKE IT
CEDAR CITY — Often in Shakespeare‘s plays, people leave their home to attempt to escape their problems. As You Like It turns this idea on its head by forcing its…
Theatre criticism in the digital age: Dispatch from ATCA 2017
SAN FRANCISCO — Several years ago I found Utah Theatre Bloggers Association, and was so excited to get the chance to see production in Utah and offer my thoughts about…
Enjoy a stroll in the woods with the U.’s AS YOU LIKE IT
SALT LAKE CITY — There’s a popular theory that Shakespeare wrote As You Like It using elements he knew would be a hit with his audiences, and that it maybe…
AS YOU LIKE IT a great choice for kids & adults
SOUTH SALT LAKE — The Utah Children’s Theatre advertises their summer Shakespeare productions as being intended for “children and adults with short attention spans.” Running less than 90 minutes (including…
UTBA reviewers sound off: EXCELLENCE IN 2014
December is full of annual traditions, and at UTBA our favorite is our yearly blog post about the excellence we saw on the Utah stage during the year. In 2014…