Leicester Productions’ delightful new short doc The Pho King chronicles story of SLC man’s efforts to connect community through a popular Vietnamese dish

Feb 4, 2025 · KILO-WAT is Plan-B Theatre’s first play that touches prominently on sports and in particular, an athlete — Misaka, in this case. While Swenson has made Misaka’s historical legacy as a basketball player a compelling entry point into the story, audience members will learn, within the space of less than an hour, that his legendary story is more deep-seated in its historical importance than ...

Feb 4, 2025 · In the opening of Aaron Asano Swenson’s new play KILO-WAT, Ken Kushida, a Japanese-American podcaster, sets the stage for telling the story about Wat ‘Kilo-Wat’ Misaka, a Utah native of Japanese descent who played point guard to lead the University of Utah basketball team to an NCAA championship in 1944 and the NIT championship in …

Solid ensemble chemistry, a nice selection of musical sendups and the especially strong performances of Zeb and Skruuck, the extraterrestrial character leads, have combined to make Salt Lake Acting Company’s (SLAC) summer show Close Encounters in the Beehive the perfect light fare during this hot, dry season.

Jan 23, 2025 · EDITOR’S NOTE: Part II summarizes the films and programs from Sundance 2025 that are part of The Utah Review coverage.For Part I which is an overview of the state of the film industry in Utah, see here.. Among the Sundance feature-length films with a significant Utah connection is Omaha, a drama filmed in Utah about a father who takes his two children on a cross-country trip, after a family ...

Jan 22, 2025 · Repertory Dance Theatre’s Emerge was splendid multigenerational showcase of Utah dance talent January 16, 2025; Pioneer Theatre and Arizona Theatre companies’ co-production of fresh adaptation of Dial M for Murder classic thriller is riveting, gobsmackingly good

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Feb 2, 2025 · This year’s Sundance slate included short film programs, including focused tracks in animation, documentary and midnight-appropriate stories. The slate is filled with outstanding examples of the short film category, from around the world. The 57 shorts were selected from 11,153 submissions this year. The Utah Review presents …

Sep 25, 2024 · The Bunker is a marvelous piece of dance theater, which resonates with the same wit, energy and flourish that the company’s founders — Joan Woodbury and Shirley Ririe — created, especially during the 1980s and 1990s. Created by Laja Field and Martin Ďurov, the work is a sassy, fabulous, serve-the-tea homage to the world of reality pop culture, concocted with the refinement of, for ...

Dec 20, 2022 · An outstanding experience from this year’s Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival, The Combat, a production by Opera Contempo and NEXT Ensemble was a superb adaptation of an early 17th century protean opera that was written in the form of a dramatic madrigal. The work is a bracing contemporary version of Claudio Monteverdi’s Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, set to a poetic libretto by ...