UTBA reviewers sound off: EXCELLENCE IN 2019
2019 was a great year for UTBA! This year we published 231 reviews, which is our highest total in several years. With so many shows to look back on, it…
Come to SWEETHEART COME
SALT LAKE CITY — In her new play, Sweetheart Come, Utah native Melissa Leilani Larson deftly manages to immerse the audience in a world of longing, beauty, passion, and horror.…
WAIT! gives pause
SALT LAKE CITY — With Wait! Julie Jensen has created a love letter to theatre and the misfits who inhabit it. The coming of age tale surrounding Wendy Burger and…
Cast fails to make me fall in love with BIG LOVE
Big Love plays at the Babcock Theater on University of Utah campus thru Nov 18th at 2pm and 7:30pm. Tickets are $18 and can be purchased at https://tickets.utah.edu/events/big-love.
Pygmalion’s TIGERS BE STILL is a good night out
The Pygmalion Theatre Company production of Tigers Be Still plays at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center (138 Broadway, Salt Lake City) Thursdays through Sundays at 7:30 PM through Nov…
GYNECOLOGIC ONCOLOGY UNIT is both touching and funny
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center of New York City plays through October 21st, at 7:30 PM some weeknights…
RED BIKE is too wobbly to succeed
SALT LAKE CITY — Red Bike, produced by Pygmalion Theatre Company, is a thought provoking play written by Caridad Svich. The play is often mesmerizing with its repetitive phrases like,…
Pygmalion’s I AND YOU is a pleasing duet
SALT LAKE CITY — I and You is a play written by Lauren Gunderson, who is one of the most produced living playwrights in the United States. The plot follows…
SLAC’s 3 LITTLE PIGS is true, depending on your point of view
SALT LAKE CITY — If you have been or had a kid since 1989, you’re probably familiar with Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith’s children’s book The True Story of the…
Witness a beautiful SILENT SKY
SALT LAKE CITY — Pygmalion Theatre in Salt Lake City is producing Silent Sky, which is based on the story of Henrietta Leavitt, a woman who was a female “computer”…