New sets, costumes for Ballet West’s third staging of historical masterpiece, Frederick Ashton’s Cinderella, set for Feb. 7-16

New sets, costumes for Ballet West’s third staging of historical masterpiece, Frederick Ashton’s Cinderella, set for Feb. 7-16

ByLes RokaFeb 3, 2025

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

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

ByLes RokaFeb 2, 202517 min read

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

Sundance 2025: All That’s Left of You is profound, deeply emotional Palestinian version of a multigenerational family saga

ByLes RokaJan 31, 202510 min read

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

Sundance 2025: Come See Me in the Good Light is generously intimate portrait of Andrea Gibson and the art of performance poetry

ByLes RokaJan 31, 20254 min read

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

Sundance 2025: Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore is masterfully crafted documentary

ByLes RokaJan 30, 20256 min read

An outstanding comprehensive documentary portrait which has premiered at Sundance, Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore, directed by Shoshannah…

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