OGDEN — Last night at the Eccles Theater at Weber State University, I attended a lovely production of Our Town. The “lovely” I use here is in the British sense…

PROVO — It seems like every writer eventually gets around to writing about the theatre itself: the business of telling stories in which they are engaged. From Shakespeare (think Hamlet’s…

SALT LAKE CITY — The Would-Be Gentleman, presented at the University of Utah’s Babcock Theatre, was wildly entertaining. While Molière’s comédie-ballet was originally written and performed for King Louis XIV…

PROVO — Oh my H-e-double-c-k” last night I laughed my pants off at Divine Comedy’s semi-annual “Best of Divine Comedy” show. If you aren’t familiar with Divine Comedy, they are…

We’re looking for reviewers right now in Salt Lake, Davis and Weber counties. Yes, we’re openly recruiting people to enlist in the UTBA “army” of play reviewers. In other words,…

SALT LAKE CITY — I must confess upfront that I often have the hardest time writing reviews of shows I love. An uneven play warrants criticism—pointing out, in one’s own…

SALT LAKE CITY — Last night I had the lucky opportunity to attend a Christ focused musical called Power in His Touch. On purpose I went to this musical without…

SALT LAKE CITY — “Lonely grief is hounding me, like the lonely shadow hounding me. It’s always there just out of sight, like a fragile tree on a lightening night.”…

If I could choose one word to describe UTBA’s second month, it would be growth. Almost every possible measure of visitor traffic has risen. We’re noticing more blogs linking to…

PROVO — Casey at the Bat was introduced in 2007 at the NAMT (National Alliance for Music Theatre) Festival for New Works; so as far as musicals go, this one…