Utah County

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…

PROVO — With the smash of Wicked on Broadway for 20 years, playwrights and storytellers have been looking for new ways to approach classic stories. This can be an exciting…

PLEASANT GROVE — The theater in the basement of the Pleasant Grove city library is perhaps the perfect place to stage The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson. It…

OREM — Reviewing theatre during the holidays is a challenging enterprise because a Christmas production can be someone’s holiday tradition, and it can be awkward and strange to critique that.…

OREM — I admit that when I accepted the assignment to review this year’s production of A Christmas Carol at Hale Center Theater Orem, I did it with a little…

PROVO — Every year, BYU Young Company stages two productions that tour local elementary schools. One is a Shakespeare show, and the other is a modern play. The Shakespeare productions…

PROVO — It is interesting how a production company can find a new take on an old play or musical and make it feel new. At the new production of…

OREM — This week, I had the opportunity to take my six-year-old son to watch his first theatre production. Before now I had not been able to find a theatre…

OREM — I subjected Hale Center Theater Orem’s production of James and the Giant Peach to the toughest test that a theatre for young audiences (TYA) show can have: Could…

PROVO — A chill in the air and thrills on the BYU stage with Wait Until Dark. Written by Frederick Knott and directed by David Morgan, Wait Until Dark is…