Stream a Utah theatre production during your self-isolation
As the theatre companies reel from the effects of the coronavirus, a new trend has emerged in the theatre world: streaming productions. The New York Times has reported on the efforts of companies from...
View ArticleA rusty, not rustic, AS YOU LIKE IT from Grassroots Shakespeare
OREM — The Grassroots Shakespeare Company is the latest theatre company to bounce back from the COVID-19 pandemic. Their first production is Shakespeare‘s pastoral comedy, As You Like It. While it is...
View ArticleBYU’s AS YOU LIKE IT is a bullseye (for the wrong target audience)
PROVO — As You Like It is the BYU Young Company’s latest touring show, and it is an odd production for the company. Not because of any artistic choices that can make Shakespeare shows falter, but...
View ArticleWestminster’s AS YOU LIKE IT is pleasant, despite some unevenness
SALT LAKE CITY — “Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?” Shakespeare asks in his play As You Like It. Left and right, the characters in As You Like It fall in love instantly. That does not make...
View ArticleAS YOU LIKE IT lives up to its title at Creekside Theatre Fest
CEDAR HILLS — It is the summer Shakespeare season in Utah, and right now the best option for Bardophiles in northern Utah is Creekside Theatre Festival’s As You Like It. When As You Like It begins,...
View ArticleLessons learned from seeing 4 productions of AS YOU LIKE IT
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 Juliet within a short time, there are lessons...
View ArticleMad King’s AS YOU LIKE IT carouses with “drunk Shakespeare”
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 a challenge for a Utah...
View ArticleBook review: SHAKESPEARE AND THE EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGIST
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...
View ArticleUTBA reviewers sound off: Excellence in 2022
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 St. George, UTBA reviewed 248 theatre...
View ArticleA rushed AS YOU LIKE IT at the U of U can still please
SALT LAKE CITY — For regular theatre-goers, seeing Shakespeare is almost mandatory. His work has been produced and adapted for centuries, with no signs of stopping, and each new iteration can be a...
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