Slumber not at A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM in Cedar City
CEDAR CITY — With A Midsummer Night’s Dream being the most popular non-musical play in Utah, the challenge for any local company is to strike a careful balance. If a…
Worth seeing the “brave new world” of Grassroots’s THE TEMPEST
SALT LAKE CITY — The Grassroots Shakespeare Company has been a travelling theater company since 2009. Their approach to Shakespeare is completely different from your typical theatre-going experience. Among the…
The hilarious COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED)
LOGAN — Most of us are at least a little bit familiar with William Shakespeare and his work, whether it’s from high school English or from watching modern movies based…
Overprotective parenting on display in Creekside’s THE TEMPEST
CEDAR HILLS — Want to know the coolest thing about Creekside Theatre Festival? It’s actually on a creek. In fact, there’s a babbling brook running right through the stage. While…
INNOVATION THEATRE takes the stage at Weber State
OGDEN — Innovation Theatre is a compilation of three separate one act performances showcased on one night. Each performance lasted about 30 minutes, with a ten-minute intermission in between each…
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Touring MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM is sugary sweet
WEST VALLEY CITY — As a huge proponent of arts education, I am thrilled that one of Utah’s premier acting companies, the Utah Shakespeare Festival, has launched an intermountain West…
BYU Young Company’s MACBETH is “but a walking shadow”
PROVO — I have to admit when I heard that Brigham Young University’s Young Company was producing William Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth to present to young audiences, I thought, “Really? Macbeth…?…
Grassroots Shakespeare’s KING LEAR lacks bite, but manages
SALT LAKE CITY — “Come not between the dragon and its wrath,” shouts King Lear after his youngest daughter, Cordelia, displeases him. The aged king’s wrath and his powerless responses…
UTBA reviewers sound off: Excellence in 2016
The social media consensus is that 2016 was a rough year for America. With a surplus of celebrity deaths and a chaotic presidential election, many people are ready to put…
Report on the 2016 Theatre Olympics (Wrocław, Poland)
WROCŁAW, POLAND — Thanks to the generous financial support of the Foundation of the American Theatre Critics Association (and the kindness of my boss to let me miss a few…