utah shakespeare festival

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…

CEDAR CITY — Arthur Miller is best known for classics like The Crucible and Death of a Salesman. Lesser known is The Price, a brutally realistic family drama about the…

CEDAR CITY — On a list of every brilliant thing in life, the Utah Shakespeare Festival production of, Every Brilliant Thing, should definitely be near the top. It’s a theatrical…

CEDAR CITY — The Utah Shakespeare Festival‘s production of Twelfth Night is the type of production that gets people hooked on Shakespeare. Every scene bursts with pleasure and enjoyment, and…

CEDAR CITY — This year, the Utah Shakespeare Festival has a bargain: two plays for the price of one. Shakespeare‘s Henry VI, Part Two and Henry VI, Part Three are…

CEDAR CITY — Theatre is ethereal, but does it have to be? The Book of Will, currently playing at the Utah Shakespeare Festival, grapples with this question through a story…

CEDAR CITY — “Sweets to the sweet,” states Queen Gertrude at Ophelia’s funeral. This mournful farewell captures my regret as I left the Utah Shakespeare Festival‘s production of Hamlet. It…

CEDAR CITY — There is only one word to describe the current production of Macbeth at the Utah Shakespeare Festival: engrossing. Nearly every scene is a triumph of directing and…

CEDAR CITY — Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat may be a groovy ’60s relic, but it feels energetic in a production currently playing at the Utah Shakespeare Festival. While…

WEST VALLEY CITY — In a world where youth are constantly looking down at their phones to watch the latest asinine YouTube video with a limited attention span, I wonder…