Shakespeare

Today is New Year’s Eve, and that means is time for UTBA’s annual post where our members discuss the excellent shows they saw in the past year. From Logan to…

Cambridge University Press released a book last year entitled Shakespeare and the Experimental Psychologist, written by Fathali M. Moghaddam, a psychologist at Georgetown University. This book seemed perfectly targeted to…

PROVO — In my latest review for UTBA, I praised the unique experience of the staged readings put on by Contemporary Voices at BYU. I loved attending the reading, but…

EAGLE MOUNTAIN — Something interesting happens whenever a critical mass of Utahns get together: they put on a play. Less than three years after the establishment of Salt Lake City,…

SOUTH SALT LAKE — I do not know how many times I have seen Hamlet. But I do know that the production at the Parker Theatre is the best Hamlet…

MIDVALE — Shakespeare‘s works are produced so frequently in Utah that the six most reviewed straight plays in UTBA’s archives were all written by the Bard. Therefore, it can be…

CEDAR CITY — Shakespeare’s The Tempest tells a storm-tossed tale of shipwreck, new love, and letting grudges go. Utah Shakespeare Festival’s current production has much to admire, and some things…

CEDAR CITY — King Lear is one of Shakespeare‘s most profound tragedies. Suffering pervades the story, and even the few characters who survive experience great hardship. Ironically, the Utah Shakespeare…

CEDAR CITY — The Utah Shakespeare Festival’s production of All’s Well That Ends Well is not good, and it is not bad. It just exists. All’s Well That Ends Well…

Between August 2021 and June 2022, I saw and reviewed four productions of As You Like It. And just as I discovered when I saw four stagings of Romeo and…