Theater

The BYU Theatre Department performed a sneak-peak of their new play 'House of Desires' in the Museum of Art last Friday to pique interest in Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz’s play and the Spain and the Hispanic World exhibit.

Donny Osmond has announced he will be returning for a limited time to 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat' in a UK tour starting this December.

By Emily Roberts Jones

Broadway is swinging open this fall after COVID-19 forced musicals and plays to close in March 2020. Theaters on New York City’s “Great White Way” and across the country, including in Salt Lake City, are beginning to fill up with excited spectators.

The Utah Shakespeare Festival is celebrating its 60th anniversary and season while honoring its founder.

Leer en español: Hora del espectáculo: Cómo el teatro en vivo está regresando a Utah

Actor Dallyn Bayles sings a duet with actress Rebecca Lopez at the premiere of 'America Nine-Eleven' musical. The two played a couple who were expecting a child. In the musical, Lopez's character soon after dies on Flight 93, the hijacked plane that crashed in a Pennsylvania field on 9/11. (Ryan Turner)

The tagline of the musical 'Xanadu' is 'To love someone else and to create art, that is Xanadu.' This message has brought community members together to put on the musical as a benefit production at the Hale Center Theater in Orem (HTCO) to raise money for Chris Clark, who was recently diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

'The Music Man' emphasizes the importance of seeing the good in others. (www.sundanceresort.com)

Acting professor Barta Heiner has been in more than 100 theater and film productions and is retiring this year. (Theater and Media Arts Faculty and Staff Profiles)

BYU's Theater Education BA and the University of Utah's Theater Teaching BFA prepare students to teach theater in schools and other areas of the community. (Dalton Johnson)

Acting in a play may be nerve-wracking to some, but it can be scarier when you know your performance is being critiqued by nearly 100 theatre students.

Melissa Cote and Tom Cowen, who both work at Spooky World Presents Nightmare New England were married the night of Monday, Oct. 26, 2015, in front of the attraction's haunted house. (Associated Press)

The set for 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' at the Covey Center for the Arts. (Savannah Hawkins)

Officials broke ground ground on a 130,000 square-foot, state-of-the-art theater in Sandy earlier this month. (Blakely Gull)

Brigham Young University's Harris Fine Arts Center, home of the BYU Student Theatre Association. The group on campus is student run and hopes to teach others about the majors and activities in the arts departments. (Student Theatre Association)

T'Naiha Ellis and Christopher Gallacher pose for a picture for 'Crazy For You.' The play will be shown at BYU during Education Week.