The Utah Shakespeare Festival’s great eight shows
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The Utah Shakespeare Festival showcases eight new performances and celebrates its 62nd anniversary with gathered Utahns.
A new take on “Romeo and Juliet”
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UVU’s Theatre Department brings a new take on “Romeo and Juliet” to the stage of the Bastian Theatre.
UVU’s Twelfth Night brings laughter to the outdoors
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UVU’s School of the Arts presents Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, making use of the Noorda courtyard for the first time. A must see show For the debut of the outdoor theater alone this show is a must-see. With the efforts of these actors though, if you haven’t seen UVU’s Twelfth Night, you are going to want […]
Utah company to stage ‘Much Ado’ as Shakespeare intended
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For four nights, the Orem SCERA Center for the Arts and the Grassroots Shakespeare Company will present what is considered the original romantic comedy–William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. Utah’s Grassroots Shakespeare Company, a local touring group, is dedicated to “original practice,” or producing shows with Shakespeare’s original staging and production techniques. The shows have […]
Through the eyes of 1945: UVU’s production of Much Ado about Nothing
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Unlike the original play of Much Ado About Nothing set in Italy, UVU students performed the play as though it was set in 1945 at the Noorda Blackbox Theatre on Friday, Nov. 9 at 7:30. In this production, Dr. John Newman, the director, chose to adapt the setting in 1945, when WWII was coming to […]
UVU Opera performs a classic Shakespeare love story
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Shakespeare’s greatest love story, Roméo et Juliette, was brought to the stage by UVU Opera at the Loveland Performing Arts Center Jan. 22. The story is the familiar classic everyone loves, except set to music. The story line is also different enough from Shakespeare’s original story that when Romeo and Juliet serenade each other, they […]
Grassroots and UVU’s The Winter’s Tale
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“This isn’t your grandma’s Shakespeare. This is more like your great-great-great-great Elizabethan grandmother’s super awesome Shakespeare!” said Kyle Oram, an actor for the UVU Theatre Arts and The Grassroots Shakespeare Company. The method behind the Grassroots company, is that they aim to produce the plays authentic to Shakespeare performance. The company has rehearsals for two […]
‘Merry Wives’ delights audience with holiday show
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There is an old adage that states “Hell hath no fury like a women scorned.” However, as the Grassroots Shakespeare Company’s latest production illustrates, hell hath no fury like two clever women scorned. In its latest production over the holiday break, GSC performed “Merry Wives of Windsor,” a story of what happens when husbands falsely […]
Othello captures the devastation of tragic love
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In a time of war when ordinary men’s lives can end in a torrent of bullets, it is the green-eyed monster of jealousy and mistrust that is often the fateful undoing of a once-great man. William Shakespeare’s “Othello,” a production by the theater department performed in the Courtyard, captures the true meaning of the term […]
Put out the light and put on a show
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It is a tale of jealousy, selfishness and the downfall of a once great man. And for the first time, people can see a live performance in Utah Valley. “Othello,” directed by Dr. James Arrington, has never been performed in Utah Valley before. The Shakespeare play tells the story of Othello, a moor whose weakness […]