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Oct 30, 2023 — Utah Film Center set to open 21st Utah Queer Film Festival with new name, impressively diverse film slate, local performers, Matthew Shepard memorial concert highlighting four world premieres by Utah-based composers
The glory of the trinity of art, dance and music: Two Utah …
1 day ago — Pictures at an Exhibition opens just six days after Ballet West opened its 61st season with a blockbuster production of Val Caniparoli’s evening-length Jekyll & Hyde. While the triple bill of ballet repertory signifies the purest artistic expressions of beauty, Adam Sklute, the company’s artistic director in an interview with The Utah Review, …
Film - The Utah Review
Oct 18, 2024 — EDITOR’S NOTE: This three-article package highlights the Utah Film Center’s Utah Queer Film Festival, which marks its 21st year. The second feature is a feature about the Life After Laramie concert of world premieres and the third feature is a detailed rundown of the 2024 slate of feature and short films.
Sundance 2024: Marking 100 years of Utah film and television …
Jan 17, 2024 — NOTE: This feature about 100 years of film and television in Utah is linked to the Part I curtain raiser for the Sundance Film Festival. When James D’Arc came to Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah as a student, he already knew some of Hollywood’s most famous names such as John Ford and John Wayne who had come to Utah to shoot some of the most famous examples of westerns for the silver ...
Theatre - The Utah Review
6 days ago — “History, as nearly no one seems to know, is not merely something to be read. And it does not refer merely, or even principally, to the past,” James Baldwin wrote in a 1965 essay for Ebony magazine (titled, The White Man’s Guilt).
Behind the scenes: Spy Hop’s award-winning PitchNic program set …
3 days ago — PitchNic, one of Spy Hop Productions’ most exciting programs, returns for its 22nd edition this year and this year’s class of young Utah filmmakers is looking to build on a legacy where more than 95% of films that have been produced in the program have gone on to be screened at and win awards at film festivals in the U.S. …
A new twist to annual list of crowning achievements: The Utah …
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 ...
Utah Arts Festival 2021: Slimmer, shorter but still state’s most ...
Aug 16, 2021 — EDITOR’S NOTE: The Utah Review begins its preview coverage today of the 45th Utah Arts Festival, which will be held Aug. 27-29 (noon to 11 p.m. on Aug. 27 and 28 and noon to 9 p.m. on Aug. 29) on the Library Square in downtown Salt Lake City. As this is the state’s largest multidisciplinary arts and cultural gathering each year, The Utah Review considers the Utah Arts Festival a worthy ...
‘One cannot fight what one cannot see’: Plan-B Theatre’s Full Color ...
Oct 29, 2024 — At the opening of Full Color, Plan-B Theatre’s 34th season opener, the setting is pleasant and inviting: eight people enjoying each other’s company and feeling comfortable at home, outside a tent in nature. As each person shares a story, the production’s epiphany expands organically, one narrative at a time. While the audience …
Utah Queer Film Festival 2024: Four world premieres by Utah …
Oct 18, 2024 — A film festival is more than a festival, for there are many community members who see it as a place they can find as home, Russell Roots, director of the Utah Queer Film Festival (UQFF) says.. During the 21st Utah Queer Film Festival, which will run Oct. 25-27 at the Rose Wagner Center for Performing Arts in downtown Salt Lake City, there will be many activities that provide the essential ...