Deeply Ponder Pygmalion’s (plan c)
SALT LAKE CITY — It’s always exciting to review a world premiere. (plan c), by Andrea D. Peterson, is billed as a look at the challenges of Ginnifer, played by…
DOGFIGHT hits with Sentinel’s Inaugural show
AMERICAN FORK — Dogfight is the opening show for Sentinel Theatre’s inaugural season, and with this production they have shown audiences that they are a force to be reckoned with!…
Brilliance and Breakdown: PROOF at Fellowship Theater
SALT LAKE CITY — MadKing Productions’ staging of David Auburn’s Proof at the Fellowship Theater in Salt Lake City’s Gateway Mall offers a deeply moving exploration of the human condition…
Daydreamer Theatre’s CONSTELLATIONS Glimmers
MAPLETON — Performed outdoors in a quaint open field, the fittingly named Daydreamer Theatre’s Constellations, is a dreamily contemplative and intimate production. Sitting on a blanket under the stars and…
Opera Contempo’s TWICE THROUGH THE HEART is worth seeing — twice
SALT LAKE CITY — Twice Through The Heart (with music by Mark-Anthony Turnage and libretto adapted from a poem by Jackie Kay) is a very short (only thirty-five minutes) contemporary…
THE FINAL ACT at WTC is a flimsy story well performed
SALT LAKE CITY — I don’t know what it is about playwrights writing about playwriting, but there are many plays written that way. I don’t have anything against it, but…
Actors, designers can’t escape weak script of THE FOSSIL RECORD
PROVO — One of the very few good things to come out of the pandemic is frequent local streaming theater, and An Other Theater Co.’s streaming production of The Fossil…
Take time to cut loose with FOOTLOOSE in West Valley
WEST VALLEY — In the grips of the hottest summer Utah has ever experienced, what better escape than a cool, dark theater brimming with 1980s pop hits? I can’t think…
GASLIGHT: it’s all about perception
SALT LAKE CITY — London, in a time when muffin men ply their trade on the street, servants answer to their masters’ summoning bells, and flickering gaslights defend the rooms…
UTBA reviewers sound off: Excellence in 2020
Every UTBA reader knows that 2020 was a tough year for Utah theatre. For over two months, we did not review any theatre productions because all theaters in the state…