"Noises Off!" at Utah Shakes – Two plays for the price of one
CEDAR CITY — It was a play about a play, with the actors playing actors, and it was nothing short of delightful insanity. This year, the Utah Shakespeare Festival is…
Love to hate "Richard III" at Utah Shakes
CEDAR CITY — I’ve been reading and watching Shakespeare plays for half of my life and I like to consider myself well versed in the Bard’s work. However, there has…
Opening night with Shakes’s "A Midsummer Night’s Dream"
CEDAR CITY — I would first like to say, what a privilege it is that my first review for Utah Theater Bloggers Association is on a Utah Shakespeare Festival production.…
THE GLASS MENAGERIE at #UtahShakes
CEDAR CITY — I couldn’t be more pleased to begin our second annual trip to the Utah Shakespeare Festival with Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie. My first experience with the…
All the Festival's a stage
CEDAR CITY — Pop quiz! What attracts 130,000 audience members per year, has won a Tony Award, and has been running for 50 years? Of course, the answer is the…
Open-Air Shakespeare is a Delight
PLEASANT GROVE — Shakespeare’s plays are something that everyone seems to run into at some point in their lives. It is required reading in most high school curricula, and anyone…
Nothing to fear from Goldilocks at Desert Star
MURRAY — Desert Star is somewhat unique in the dinner theater genre. They know what works for them and they do it well. They have created a very well-oiled machine…
Cursing the Pimpernel a little myself
MURRAY — The UTBA reviews a wide variety of productions, and, in my reviewing experiences, I’ve been in the audience for a good mix of shows. So, as I attended…
Do you know what it takes to make an Ormitha Macarounda?
SALT LAKE CITY — Harold Pinter’s The Dumb Waiter may just reveal the answer to this review’s title question as well as many others that main character, an hired assassin,…
10 Questions with Jo Winiarski, Set Designer
In preparation for our the Utah Shakespeare Festival’s 50th anniversary, we’re resurrecting one of our readers’ favorite features: our 10 question interviews. Choosing Jo Winiarski for our first interview of…