New sets, costumes for Ballet West’s third staging of historical masterpiece, Frederick Ashton’s Cinderella, set for Feb. 7-16
Few stories have been so versatile for adaptation than Cinderella. There have been versions for children’s theater, pantomime, opera, comic theater, vaudeville, burlesque, melodrama, risqué sendups, Christmas shows, rock music adaptations with Cinderella as antiheroine, television productions, mainstream and art films in many languages (more than 140 versions just of the fairy tale) and the list extends into the farthest creative horizons. Ballet, of course, has produced some of the…
Sundance 2025: Twelve short films that stood out for The Utah Review this year: comedy, horror, documentary, drama, animation
This year’s Sundance slate included short film programs, including focused tracks in animation, documentary and midnight-appropriate stories. The…
Sundance 2025: All That’s Left of You is profound, deeply emotional Palestinian version of a multigenerational family saga
One of the Sundance Film Festival’s greatest impacts has been as a prominent venue in the Western world…
Sundance 2025: Come See Me in the Good Light is generously intimate portrait of Andrea Gibson and the art of performance poetry
Shortly after they were inaugurated as Colorado’s poet laureate in 2023. Andrea Gibson explained in their Substack Things…
Sundance 2025: Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore is masterfully crafted documentary
An outstanding comprehensive documentary portrait which has premiered at Sundance, Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore, directed by Shoshannah…