OGDEN — We know four college students who’ll be maxing out their Fitbit activity trackers over the next two weekends.The theater students are featured in “The 39 Steps,” a four-person comedy thriller opening Friday, Feb. 21, at Weber State University. The show plays weekends through ...
SALT LAKE CITY — Puppets, songs, and the Great Salt Lake.This play has it all.Ogden playwright Jenny Kokai, who teaches theater at Weber State University, has written a new play that is receiving its world premiere this week in Salt Lake City. “Singing to the Brine Shrimp,” presented by ...
The Off Broadway Theatre just went waaaay off-Broadway.For 25 years, the local theater company’s home, at 272 S. Main St., was just around the corner from 300 South — also known as Broadway — in downtown Salt Lake City.But no more.The OBT, co-founded by Layton residents Sandy and Eric ...
Princess parties. They’re definitely not just for little girls anymore.At least, this one isn’t.This weekend, direct from New York City, the Broadway Princess Party will make two stops in Utah. The program — combining Broadway, musicals and princesses for an evening of tiara-topped magic ...
If you haven’t seen “Peter Pan” in Peery’s Egyptian Theater, you haven’t really seen “Peter Pan.”This week, Ogden Musical Theatre is bringing to town the Broadway musical about a flying boy who refuses to grow up. And producers are touting the opportunity to see Peter and the ...
<strong>Utah singer-songwriters playing Layton show</strong>LAYTON — Two local singer-songwriters will perform this weekend at the Davis Arts Council’s Free Sunday Night Concert Series.Charlie Jensen and Whitney Lusk will each take the stage to perform their ...
<strong>‘one singular sensation’ coming to Ziegfeld</strong>SOUTH OGDEN — “A Chorus Line” opens this weekend at The Ziegfeld Theater.The musical centers on a group of Broadway dancers who endure a grueling audition process for a part on a chorus line. ...
In 1967, at the “ripe old age” of 6, Milt Olsen attended the very first Mormon Miracle Pageant in the small central Utah town of Manti.This month, as president of that pageant, he’ll preside over its last.After 52 years of performances each summer, the Mormon Miracle Pageant — which ...
Forget everything you thought you knew about opera — that it’s long, that it’s not particularly accessible, that it’s written in a foreign language.Because next week, Utah Opera is presenting its “10-minute Opera” programs in Brigham City, Ogden and Salt Lake City, and the event ...
Call someone a “Chinaman” these days and you’d better be ready for a fight — most likely verbally, and quite possibly physically.But playwright Jason Ma says there was a time that term carried less cultural baggage.In the playbill for the Utah performances of his new musical, “Gold ...
