JAJA’S AFRICAN HAIR BRAIDING: a joyful show available at home
NEW YORK CITY — When a small town critic from Utah has a weekend trip of critiquing in New York City, why would she go out of her way to…
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NEW YORK CITY — When a small town critic from Utah has a weekend trip of critiquing in New York City, why would she go out of her way to…
NEW YORK CITY — This is my third review this year of Matt Cox’s play Puffs, Or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic, but…
CYBERSPACE — Think of the happiest things, it’s the same as having wings! Though the actors of the fictional Cornley Drama Society who depend on the rigging are in for…
CYBERSPACE — Carousel is a well-loved but seldom-produced musical from Broadway’s Golden Age. The second musical created by Rodgers and Hammerstein, the 1945 gem features some of the most gorgeous…
LONDON — If you were to compile a list of theater greats, somewhere toward the top of that list you would have to include Elaine Stritch. She has been a…
NEW YORK CITY — In 1992, Billy Crystal wrote, directed, and starred in the movie Mr. Saturday Night. It told the story of an aging comic whose best days were…
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…
SALT LAKE CITY — Plan-B Theatre’s premiere of Aftershock, a play written by up-and-coming writer Iris Salazar, is set in contemporary, post-earthquake, post-lockdown Salt Lake. But Aftershock is not a…
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…
With the end of the year upon us, it is time for one of UTBA’s greatest traditions: the annual post where our reviewers commend the Utah theatre community’s excellent work…