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PROVO — The cast members of the BYU Young Company circulated around the small black box theatre, interacting with audience members before the start of Cyrano, directed by Kris Jennings.…

PROVO — Growing up I must have watched the cartoon version of Charlotte’s Web hundreds of times, but until recently I didn’t know there was a stage adaptation of E.…

PROVO — On the program for The Taste of Sunrise, there is a line from Susan Zeder‘s script, “Some things are so beautiful they don’t need sound.” No words that…

PROVO — I’m not always a Shakespeare fan, but as I watched BYU Young Company perform Twelfth Night, directed by Megan Sanborn Jones, I had a blast. Jones has shortened…

At the end of every year at UTBA we collect our members’ thoughts on the excellent shows they have seen that year. And for the fifth year in a row,…

PROVO — For some people, it will be sacrilege. In this production of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, the Beast does not wear an eighteenth century blue suit to dance…

Provo — Although I know George Bernard Shaw‘s plays, I was unfamiliar with Misalliance before attending Brigham Young University’s production directed by Barta Lee Heiner. This show is a romantic…

PROVO — Water Sings Blue, an adaptation by Teresa Dayley Love based on a book by Kate Coombs, was a different experience from my typical theatrical outings. Water Sings Blue…

PROVO — In 2005 I had many friends try and convince me to read Princess Academy by Shannon Hale. But because I had “reader’s regret” about another young adult fiction…

PROVO — Labeled as one of Shakespeare’s greatest problem plays, The Winter’s Tale at BYU is an elegantly and intricately designed performance, though not without its own problems. Directed by…