At the Utah Shakespeare Fest, OTHELLO’s reputation grows
CEDAR CITY — Every minute of the Utah Shakespeare Festival’s current production of Othello demonstrates why this play is considered one of Shakespeare‘s greatest tragedies. The play is a case study in...
View ArticleAN ILIAD brings the Homeric tradition into the 21st century
CEDAR CITY — As one of the fundamental stories of Western literature, The Iliad has entranced audiences for centuries. In a reimagined adaptation entitled An Iliad, the Utah Shakespeare Festival has...
View ArticleUTBA reviewers sound off: EXCELLENCE IN 2018
It’s time for the annual UTBA retrospective, where our reviewers send kudos to all the excellent productions they saw in the state this year. There are no firm criteria for inclusion in this list; we...
View ArticleGet thee to HAMLET at the Utah Shakespeare Festival
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 is a...
View ArticleFred Adams’s legacy on Utah arts, culture, and politics
CEDAR CITY — On the evening of March 5, the Utah Shakespeare Festival hosted its second annual Make a Scene fundraising event at Harmon Hall in West Valley City. This unique event brings the movers and...
View ArticleThe Utah Shakespeare Festival looks toward brighter days
Update: On May 12, 2020, the Utah Shakespeare Festival announced that the entire 2020 season was cancelled. Read the entire announcement here. CEDAR CITY — Brian Vaughn of the Utah Shakespeare Festival...
View ArticleUtah Shakespeare Festival’s RAGTIME is a smashing “Success!”
CEDAR CITY — Ragtime is one of the greatest American musicals. And the production of Ragtime currently on stage at the Utah Shakespeare Festival must rank among this masterpiece’s greatest productions....
View ArticleDouble, no, triple the laughs at COMEDY OF TERRORS
CEDAR CITY — A set of identical twins and a set of identical triplets engage in a two-hour romp filled with mistaken identity, physical humor, and comedic hijinks. It’s positively Shakespearean, right?...
View ArticleUTBA reviewers sound off: Excellence in 2021
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 on the stage in the previous...
View ArticleSay it three times: BEETLEJUICE is a crowd pleaser
SALT LAKE CITY — Beetlejuice (with music and lyrics by Eddie Perfect and a book by Scott Brown and Anthony King) is a technical triumph with non-stop laughs. Beetlejuice is a faithful retelling of the...
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