West Side Story

WEST VALLEY — As a child, one of my favorite memories was watching Daisy Eagan win a Tony at 11 years old for her role in the Secret Garden. As…

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…

WEST VALLEY CITY — There is something special about a memorable ending to a musical or play. The rest of the production can have flaws, but if the show can…

KAYSVILLE — West Side Story, with music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, has been an emotional favorite of audiences since entering the scene in 1957. It also…

ST. GEORGE — They say young love takes people’s feelings from the highest of highs to the lowest of lows, and no story seems to illustrate that more blatantly than…

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…

LOGAN — Leave it to Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein, and Stephen Sondheim to take a challenging story like Romeo and Juliet and drop it into the West Side of New…

SALT LAKE CITY — West Side Story is based off of William Shakespeare‘s play, Romeo and Juliet, but set amidst kid gang wars on the streets of New York in…

At the end of every year at UTBA we collect our members’ thoughts on the excellent shows they have seen that year. And for the fifth year in a row,…

OREM — West Side Story is based on the familiar tale of Romeo and Juliet and set in blue-collar Manhattan in the mid 1950’s. It a story of forbidden love…