pioneer theatre company

SALT LAKE CITY — “The Lehman Trilogy” at Pioneer Theatre Company is unlike anything I’ve seen — from both a subject and stylistic perspective. The subject is the 164-year history…

SALT LAKE CITY — Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow have been capturing the nation’s attention since their spree of murderous robberies shook depression era Americans. The fascination of these characters…

SALT LAKE CITY — Karen Zacarias’s 2019 play, Native Gardens, showing now at Pioneer Theatre in its regional debut and directed by Timothy Douglas, is a delightful comedy and look…

The year is coming to a close, and what a year it has been! At UTBA, we published a record-breaking 259 reviews in 2023, including our first reviews for productions…

SALT LAKE CITY — Christmas in Connecticut (book by Patrick Pacheco and Erik Forrest Jackson, music by Jason Howland, and lyrics by Amanda Yesnowitz) is a stage adaptation of a…

SALT LAKE CITY — The Rocky Horror Show at Pioneer Theatre Company is dazzling this October. It is not necessary to be the “shadow audience” and know all the possible…

SALT LAKE CITY — Pioneer Theatre Company’s upstairs lobby, the Loge Gallery, holds a fantastic display called “A Lifetime of Costume Design: The Work of David Kay Mickelsen.” I was…

SALT LAKE CITY — Peeling back the layers of design, dialogue and character in a mystery is both the challenge and the thrill of making and seeing such a production.…

SALT LAKE CITY — While it can be valuable and important to see a challenging and gritty play or musical there is also a place for light bubbly crowd pleasing…

SALT LAKE CITY — As a 15-year-old girl traveling the United States as part of an American Legion-sponsored constitutional speech contest in the late 1970s, Heidi Schreck may have found…