MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG to artistic success

Woody White, Briana Shipley, and Peter Layland (Photo: Christian Cragun)

PROVO — “How did you get to be here? What was the moment?” It’s normal from time to time for a person to look back on the life decisions that made them the person they are today. Maybe you do it every year as your birthday approaches; maybe the tendency to look back—sometimes with regrets, other [...]

Utah students shine at KCACTF Regional Festival

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OGDEN — Last week, Weber State University hosted the 44th annual Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF) Region VIII conference. KCACTF is the nation’s foremost theatre festival for college and university productions. Lasting from February 7 through 11, 2012, this year’s conference drew students, faculty, and artists from Utah, Arizona, central and southern California, southern [...]

The World’s Most Famous Diary, Live on Stage

PROVO — I saw a play at BYU,The Diary of Anne Frank, which has to be the most read diary in the world.  Everybody knows the story of a little girl who was forced into hiding, shut behind a bookcase with her family during World War II.  People may not know all of the details, [...]

If you love classic films, BYU’s “Stage Door” is a treat.

PROVO — Something about theatre and film fascinates us as a culture; as an audience, we want to know what happens backstage and off screen. Part of it is our obsession with celebrity. But we also long to know the performers we see on stage and screen; we want to know how like—or unlike—their characters [...]

Rappucini or His Daughter…

OREM — There are two kinds of reviews: first, the travel advisory; the ‘hey, if you’re going out tonight, here’s a little heads up on your choices’; and second, the pronouncement of value; the Anton-Ego- a’-la-Ratatouille, set in stone enshrinement as glorious art or trash. So here’s the problem . . . Mr. Ego (or [...]