Sundance 2025: Twelve short films that stood out for The Utah Review this year: comedy, horror, documentary, drama, animation

Feb 12, 2014 · Congratulations on stumbling across the most momentous event to happen around these parts since several folks looked down on the valley below them - and proclaimed it a pretty rad place. They we're right and we want to tell you why. We’re bringing together the very best local writers and photographers to cover the best...

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

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 …

2 days ago · In the first half of the ingeniously crafted play KILO-WAT by Aaron Asano Swenson, Ken, the Japanese-American podcaster, takes the audience through the family roots and foundations in the story about Wat ‘Kilo-Wat’ Misaka as a sports star. A Utah native of Japanese descent, he played point guard to lead the University of Utah basketball team to an NCAA championship in 1944 and the NIT ...

The Utah Review is Utah's premier independent arts magazine, focused on covering the very best of the local arts scene. Our writers cover everything from film to theatre to dance; always with a critical focus on Utah first and foremost. Since our inception in 2014, The Utah Review has been the Official Online Magazine for...

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 ...

This week, Ballet West’s new production will give the trinity of art, dance and music a resplendent tribute fit for an empress. It will feature Utah premieres of works by two of the best-known international choreographers and a reprise of a Balanchine masterpiece that was the choreographer’s first work he set in America 90 years …

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.

Made evident by the consistently enthusiastic response by the audience throughout the 90-minute show, Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company’s 61st season opener, Re-Play, was a roaring successful sampler of the legendary institution’s artistic brand and character.