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• The Mystery of Edwin Drood at Timp Arts: Who Gets Cast as the Suspect? (October 13, 2026)
• Kotaro Fukuma Opens Bachauer’s 2026–27 Season with Homage to Liszt (October 13, 2026)
• Listening to Mrs. Bennet: Larson’s Pride and Prejudice at The Ruth (October 12, 2026)
• Sometimes It Should Just Be Play: John Cage's MusiCircus (October 10, 2026)
• Review: In 'Sugar Skull! A Día de Muertos Musical Adventure,' Tradition Lives in the People Who Carry It (October 6, 2026)
• Very Like a Whale: A Whale of a Tale, and a Lake Worth Believing In (October 6, 2026)
• Bachauer Foundation Opens 2026-27 Concert Series Celebrating Its Laureates (October 4, 2026)
• Painted in Light, Driven by a Pulse: PYGmalion's Witch by Jen Silverman (October 3, 2026)
• Pilgrimage: A Listener's Guide to Kotaro Fukuma's Liszt Program (September 29, 2026)
• Niladri Kumar: The Space Between the Notes (September 28, 2026)
• Bringing the Canyon Indoors: Footpath Theatre Company on Three Lives of Western Minerals and Their Origins (September 26, 2026)
• Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill: Witnessing "Strange Fruit" (September 20, 2026)
• The Demon Is Better Behaved: Spencer Ford on Writing Possessive! The Musical! and Taking It to Edinburgh Fringe (September 19, 2026)
• The Death of Nero by Mikhail Kuzmin: A Century-Old "Lost" Russian Play Finally Gets Its World Premiere in SLC Thanks to ThreePenny Theatre Company (August 31, 2026)
• Water for Elephants Review: A Circus of Wonder on Tour (August 26, 2026)
• A Curse That Never Strikes: MacB*tches at MadKing's Fellowship Theater (August 16, 2026)
• Second Week Roundup at Great Salt Lake Fringe: King John & Dramapocalypse! (August 8, 2026)
• Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival Review: Salt Monster Theatre Co.'s Replacements (August 8, 2026)
• Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival Review: In My Room by Laura Elise Chapman (August 7, 2026)
• Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival Review: Sugar Mud by Meat Bar (August 6, 2026)
• Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival Review: There's Only Two Left (August 4, 2026)
• Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival Review: Happy Birthday, Mr. President (August 4, 2026)
• Not Today, But Surely Tomorrow: Good Company Theatre's "Waiting for Godot" (July 29, 2026)
• First Weekend Roundup at the Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival: The Variants, Polaroids from the Apocalypse, and Cache Dexter's 2,045,148,705th Most Interesting Person in the World (July 29, 2026)
• Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival Review: Diaries of a Post-Mormon Girl (July 28, 2026)
• "Welcome to the New Century": A Review of "The Hiss" at Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival (July 26, 2026)
• Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival Review: "This is Jane" Opera Tells the Real Story of Chicago's Jane Collective (July 26, 2026)
• Twelve Shows to Catch at This Year’s Great Salt Lake Fringe (July 24, 2026)
• Who's Directing Whom: Power and Consent in Voodoo's Venus in Fur (July 19, 2026)
• Spotlight: Power, Consent, and Seduction Take the Stage in Voodoo Theatre Company's "Venus in Fur" (July 12, 2026)
• A French Toast, Both Kinds: A Review of Meanwhile Park's New Rom-Com (July 11, 2026)
• Alicia Keys' Hell's Kitchen: Music as Inheritance (July 8, 2026)
• Review: SLAC's Gaslight Zone — You Won't Want to Leave! (June 27, 2026)
• More Than Technique: Inside the Gina Bachauer 50th Anniversary Young Artists Semifinals (June 26, 2026)
• Meet Our Newest Contributor: Dennise (June 23, 2026)
• Free Sundance Screenings for Utah Locals This Summer (June 20, 2026)
• Lil Poppet Productions' True West: Coyotes in the Kitchen (June 19, 2026)
• Rabbit Hole at Creekside Theatre Fest: Grief Without a Safety Net (June 13, 2026)
• Eccles Theater Review: Back to the Future —The Musical (June 10, 2026)
• Disney's Tarzan at CenterPoint Theatre: Community Theatre Has No Business Being This Good (June 6, 2026)
• "It's Physics, Not Physical": The Semantics of Platonic Friendship in [SIC] (June 6, 2026)
• Sweetie Pies Only Theatre Co. Debuts "The Aliens" at Picnic Cafe (May 31, 2026)
• Something Rotten! at Ziegfeld Theater: Broadway Love Letter, Shakespeare Roast, and Pure Theatrical Chaos (May 17, 2026)
• Salt Lake Festival Guide | May 15–17, 2026: Living Traditions Festival, Kilby Block Party, Utah Food Festival & More (May 15, 2026)
• Meanwhile Park and the Art of Gathering: A Conversation with Jeff Paris and Matthew Ivan Bennett (May 12, 2026)
• Thin Air and Emotional Survival: The Central Metaphor of “Annapurna” (May 6, 2026)
• Once on This Island at The Ruth: Storytelling as Survival Through Music and Memory (May 6, 2026)
• Utah's Hyperscale Data Center and HB-76: A Conversation with Anna Graff (April 29, 2026)
• Review of Come From Away at Pioneer Theatre Company: Remembering Crisis Through Acts of Care (April 25, 2026)
• If You Know the Soundtrack: A Conversation with Dr. Kofi J. Adisa on Music, Community, and Memory (April 24, 2026)
• The Fantasticks Review: Performing Illusion, Confronting Reality (April 21, 2026)
• RED Review: Control, Color, and the Cost of Creation (April 18, 2026)
• Gathering Voices: Raising the Curtain Turns Performance Into Civic Action in Utah (April 15, 2026)
• Lukas Geniušas and Anna Geniushene Return to Bachauer: “Heart to Heart” with Rachmaninoff, Copland, and Adams (April 14, 2026)
• Murder Ballad at SLAC: A Loud, Messy Rock Opera That Knows Exactly What It’s Doing (April 13, 2026)
• The Keeping Place by Colton Kraus: Memory, Performance, and the Responsibility of Holding (April 12, 2026)
• Love Is Seeing Clearly in the Dark: The Phantom of the Opera at Eccles Theater (April 11, 2026)
• Review—A Voice in Motion: Samara Joy at Utah Presents (April 8, 2026)
• At the Kitchen Table: Dan Froot & Company’s Arms Around America and Theatre as an Ongoing Practice (April 4, 2026)
• WRTG 4950 Student Group Collaboration on Graffiti Art & Murals in Salt Lake City: Mapping as Rhetoric (March 31, 2026)
• Review: The Prom at Ziegfeld Theater Turns Laughter into a Powerful Reflection on Belonging (March 28, 2026)
• “We Sing It Anyway”: Hadestown Review — Repetition, Labor, and a Jazz-Infused Greek Tragedy (March 25, 2026)
• King James at Pioneer Theatre Company: Fandom, Friendship, and the Politics of Belief (March 21, 2026)
• Listening for the American Dream: A Conversation with David McCourt on New Documentary "Amerigo" (February 15, 2026)
• Review: DUMBED DOWN at Plan-B Theatre Company — Teaching Is Like Tylenol (February 13, 2026)
• Eccles Review: Murder, Mechanism, and Mayhem—Clue Delivers Precision Farce (February 11, 2026)
• PYG Review: Becky, Nurse of Salem—Returning to the Past to Tell History Differently (February 9, 2026)
• Wasatch Theatre Review: Friendly Universe and the Work of Theatre for the Very Young (February 8, 2026)
• SLAC Review: Here Comes the Sun—The World Premiere of Sunny in the Dark by Elaine Jarvik (February 7, 2026)
• Grasmere Review: The Poet and the Muse, and the Violence of Genius (February 1, 2026)
• Pioneer Theatre Review: "Ten Brave Seconds" and the Courage of Staying in the Room (January 31, 2026)
• Sundance Review: Three Shorts to Check Out on Care, Courage, and Survival (January 30, 2026)
• Sundance Review: Jaripeo—Poetry, Queerness, and Machismo Inside Mexico’s Rodeo Culture (January 28, 2026)
• Inside "Jaripeo": A Sundance Red Carpet Q&A with Producer Sarah Strunin (January 28, 2026)
• Sundance Review: Beth de Araújo’s "Josephine" Confronts the Reality of Rape Culture (January 26, 2026)
• Sundance Review: Aanikoobijigan—Repatriation of Native Ancestors (January 26, 2026)
• Sundance Review: The Lake — A Powerful but Partial Look at Great Salt Lake Crisis (January 26, 2026)
• Why Protesting Isn’t Moving ICE — and What Actually Will (January 25, 2026)
• Free Expression and the Future of Film: ACLU Panel at Sundance 2026 (January 24, 2026)
• Sundance 2026: Kimberlé Crenshaw, Ava DuVernay, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Jacqueline Stewart Confront Censorship and the New McCarthyism in The Story of Us (January 22, 2026)
• Review: "A Beautiful Noise" Brings Neil Diamond's Music to Life at Salt Lake City’s Eccles Theater (January 21, 2026)
• Review: Sō Percussion Brings A World Premiere with Steel Pan Lineage to Libby Gardner Hall (January 16, 2026)
• "Deliberate Joy": Francesca Harper on Legacy, Memory, and Ailey II (January 12, 2026)
• Hart Theater Company’s “The Last Five Years” Review (SLC) (January 10, 2026)
• SLC White Party 2026: A Voyage Through Time (December 31, 2025)
• Sundance 2026: Guide for Utah Locals (December 18, 2025)
• The Rhetorical Review — 2025: A Year Witnessing Performance, Community, and Care (December 15, 2025)
• “A Machine Built to Break Down”: Pioneer Theatre Company’s Noises Off Delivers a Carefully Orchestrated Collapse (December 7, 2025)
• Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed: The Rock Experience at SLAC (December 7, 2025)
• ’Twas the Night Before: Cirque du Soleil’s First Christmas Show Makes Its Salt Lake City Debut (December 5, 2025)
• A Funny, Bloody, Queer Gothic: Voodoo Theatre Company’s "The Moors" Bites Back (November 17, 2025)
• Inhabiting the Inner Space: Arthur Greene and the Passage from Pain to Triumph at the Gina Bachauer International Piano Foundation (November 16, 2025)
• "Book of Ego" by Irene Loy: Drama Therapy and the Excavation of Self (November 14, 2025)
• “Keep Marching”: Suffs the Musical Bring the Suffrage Fight into 2025 (November 13, 2025)
• Review: PYGmalion’s “Tiny Beautiful Things” — Writing as Empathy and Witness (November 9, 2025)
• AI Isn’t Invisible, It’s Draining the Planet: Why We Need to Know the Cost Before We Click (November 8, 2025)
• Kurbasy’s Songs of the Ukrainian Forest at Kingsbury Hall (November 7, 2025)
• The Dos and Don'ts of Theatre Criticism (October 31, 2025)
• “You Still Matter”: Pioneer Theatre Company’s "Dear Evan Hansen" Hits a Nerve in Utah (October 25, 2025)
• Lakecia Benjamin Has Risen: An Alto Sax Goddess in Her Noble Rise Era (October 24, 2025)
• "Deep Love: A Rock Opera"— The Living, the Dead, and the Space Between (October 21, 2025)
• Ballet Hispánico at Kingsbury Hall: Motion, Memory, and the Pulse of Latin Identity (October 16, 2025)
• “Don’t Dream It — Be It”: "The Rocky Horror Show" at the Ziegfeld Theater (October 11, 2025)
• Listening Walls and Lost Names: Westminster University’s "The Hatmaker’s Wife" (October 7, 2025)
• The Kitchen as Crucible: Reinvention in "The Roommate" (October 5, 2025)
• The World Premiere of "Just Add Water": Great Salt Lake Speaks (October 4, 2025)
• A Classic Reborn: "Some Like It Hot" Finds Liberation in Jazz and Gender (October 1, 2025)
• Golden Resonance: Wynona Yinuo Wang Opens Bachauer's 50th Anniversary Season (September 27, 2025)
• The Soundtrack of Sacrifice: A Two-Hander That Hits Home for Performers (September 14, 2025)
• When a Flamingo Meets a Seagull: "Eb & Flo" and the Future of Great Salt Lake (September 13, 2025)
• Bachauer 2025–26 Concert Series: Celebrating 50 Years of Piano Excellence (September 9, 2025)
• A Technicolor Language: Joseph in ASL at the Ziegfeld (September 6, 2025)
• Beyond Labels: An Interview with Arturo Sandoval on Jazz, Genres, and Authenticity (August 26, 2025)
• The Urban Arts Festival: Fifteen Years of Streets as Canvas (August 19, 2025)
• Grid City Music Festival Returns with 80+ Bands, 75 Murals, and Three Days of Free Performances (August 11, 2025)
• Faith, Fire, and the Virgin’s Gaze: WVPAC's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (August 10, 2025)
• Big Hair, Bigger Hearts: How "Steel Magnolias" Makes Room for Grief, Laughter, and Love (July 29, 2025)
• There’s Still Magic in Oz: Tuacahn’s Timely Tribute to a Classic (July 27, 2025)
• "Welcome to Fat School": Class Is in Session, and the Curriculum Is Radical Self-Love (July 27, 2025)
• "The Rest is Silence": Therapy, Tragedy, and Shakespearean Shenanigans (July 27, 2025)
• Extra! Extra! Tuacahn’s “Newsies” Delivers a Pressing Revival (July 27, 2025)
• “Park Bench Royalty”: A Junkyard Fable with a Beating Heart (July 26, 2025)
• "Juan Jose and the Deathly Vatos": Chicano Magic, Spanglish Mayhem, and a Wand Made of Resistance (July 26, 2025)
• When Words Were Enough: "Dear Jack, Dear Louise" at USF (July 26, 2025)
• From the Ocean Floor to Red Rock Heights: Tuacahn’s "Little Mermaid" Makes a Lasting Impression (July 25, 2025)
• “My Brother Was a Vampire”: Flying Backward Through Queer Grief and Gothic Memory (July 21, 2025)
• Meanwhile Park 2025: Backyard Theatre and the Queer Art of Survival (July 11, 2025)
• When Power Protects Itself, Justice Disappears (July 10, 2025)
• Mid-Life Crisis Rocks for a Cause with Summer Christmas Concert in Layton (July 5, 2025)
• SPRM, Spiked Soda, and Satire: SLAC’s Real Wives Roast the Beehive (June 29, 2025)
• "The Fork": A Music-Filled Farcical Feast with Heart (June 22, 2025)
• & Juliet” Review: A Queer, Pop-Feminist Remix Takes Over Salt Lake City (June 19, 2025)
• Threads of Memory: Archive and Identity in the Work of Jessica Nicole Begay and Alexandria Yaa (June 18, 2025)
• Home Is Mismatched Dishes: Rediscovering "The Box-Car Children" on Stage (June 9, 2025)
• "Dreamgirls" at The Grand: Where Black Brilliance Takes Center Stage (May 23, 2025)
• What We Leave Behind: The World Premiere of "Paper Weight" by Skyler Denfeld (May 19, 2025)
• Rewriting the Punchline at Ziegfeld Theater: Tootsie's Impact on Gender Norms (May 17, 2025)
• A Bonfire, a Breakdown, and the End of the World: "The Grown-Ups" Utah Premiere (May 11, 2025)
• Messy, Honest, and Unforgettable: "Waitress" at PTC (May 4, 2025)
• Pygmalion’s "Be Here Now": The Art and Ethics of Presence (May 3, 2025)
• Wicked: Performance, Power, and the Manufacture of Truth (April 18, 2025)
• “The Aunties” Brings Indigenous Stories and Community to Utah Stages (April 15, 2025)
• "Coach Coach": Self-Reflexivity, Late Capitalism, and the Theatre of Becoming (April 7, 2025)
• A’lante Flamenco Ignites the Westminster Concert Series with Passion and Precision (April 6, 2025)
• "Life of Pi": Survival, Spirituality, and the Power of Puppetry (April 2, 2025)
• Fatherhood, Friendship, and Fragility: A Powerful Case for the Existence of God (March 29, 2025)
• The World Premiere of "The Beatrix Potter Defense Society": A Gendered Reclamation of Artistic Freedom (March 26, 2025)
• Hart Theatre Company's "Next to Normal": A Raw and Resonant Exploration of Mental Illness (March 10, 2025)
• Voodoo Theatre Company’s “The Antipodes” : A Metatheatrical Look at Storytelling and the Weight of Creativity (March 9, 2025)
• "The Oresteia" by Playwright Emilio Casillas: A Contemporary Reimagining of Three Greek Tragedies (March 2, 2025)
• Les Misérables: A Timeless Story of Justice, Revolution, and Redemption (March 1, 2025)
• Natural Woman, Timeless Story: “Beautiful” Brings Carole King's Legacy to Life (February 15, 2025)
• The World Premiere of KILO-WAT by Aaron Asano Swenson: Basketball, War, and the Power of Storytelling (February 11, 2025)
• Beats from Below (January 31, 2025)
• Book Review—Rhetorical Healing: The Reeducation of Contemporary Black Womanhood by Tamika L. Carey (January 15, 2025)
• Improv Salt Lake: Building a Hub for Creativity and Community in Salt Lake City (December 30, 2024)
• "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike": A Theatrical Exploration of Family and Identity (December 14, 2024)
• "Kimberly Akimbo": A Unique Blend of Humor and Heart (December 11, 2024)
• Unpacking Neverland: Removing Indigenous Stereotypes from Tiger Lily in "Peter Pan" (November 7, 2024)
• Obsession Unleashed: Onstage Adaptation of Steven King's "Misery" Delivers the Perfect Halloween Thrills (October 26, 2024)
• The World Premiere of "Full Color": Painting a Portrait of Life’s Realities by Utah BIPOC Artists (October 24, 2024)
• Exploring Genres Through Music Lesson Plan (October 20, 2024)
• Big Vocals and Laughs in a Time Capsule: The National Tour of "Funny Girl" (October 11, 2024)
• Rabbit Tales: A Heartwarming Leap into PG Players' "Harvey" (September 22, 2024)
• Brushes with Conflict: The Utah Premiere of "God Kinda Looks Like Tupac" by Emilio Rodriguez (September 13, 2024)
• Love Takes the Lead: "Mrs. Doubtfire The Musical" (September 12, 2024)
• Parker Theatre's "Twelfth Night": A Comical Exploration of Identity and Disguise (August 20, 2024)
• Rhetorical Analysis PDF (August 9, 2024)
• Unearthing the Psyche: Western Minerals Shines with Desert Mystique (August 5, 2024)
• "Hamilton" Unbound: A Timeless Fusion of History and Modernity on Stage (August 3, 2024)
• Shrewdly Hilarious: Campy Shakespeare at Its Best (July 29, 2024)
• A Magically Pastoral Tale of Redemption: Utah Shakespeare Festival's "The Winter's Tale" (July 28, 2024)
• Humanizing a Legend: "The Mountaintop" at Utah Shakespeare Festival (July 26, 2024)
• Stellar Aspirations: Illuminating the Life of Henrietta Leavitt in "Silent Sky" (July 24, 2024)
• Step Right Up: Hilarious Hijinks at Utah Shakespeare Festival's "The 39 Steps" (July 22, 2024)
• Much Ado About Everything: Noting the Humor and Heart in Shakespeare's Comedy (July 21, 2024)
• "Frozen" in the Desert: Tuacahn’s Icy Spectacle (July 17, 2024)
• Tuacahn's “Ring of Fire” Shines but Struggles to Ignite the True Spirit of Johnny Cash (July 17, 2024)
• Pirouettes and Puberty: The Fierce and Unflinching World of "Dance Nation" (July 6, 2024)
• Opening a Korean Restaurant in Utah: A Culinary and Cultural Journey by Jaeeun Jung (June 21, 2024)
• A Beautifully Melancholy Tune: Bob Dylan's Genius Reimagined in "Girl From the North Country" (June 13, 2024)
• AI in Medicine by Nicholas Hom (May 27, 2024)
• Annie at the Eccles: A Timeless and Relevant Triumph (May 12, 2024)
• Come From Away the Musical: Where Compassion Takes Flight (May 5, 2024)
• "Bitter Lemon": Welcome to Hell, Macbeth! (April 10, 2024)
• A Modern Classic Reimagined: "Pretty Woman: The Musical" (April 3, 2024)
• Voodoo Theatre’s "The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey": a Heart-warming yet Heart-breaking Illumination of the Importance of Individualism and Tolerance (March 2, 2024)
• MJ the Musical: Moonwalking that Just May "Heal the World" (February 29, 2024)
• Reshaping Shakespeare for the Better: The World Premiere of "Balthazar" by Debora Threedy (February 15, 2024)
• Makeup Artist Spotlight: Kirk Cambridge-Del Pesche: "Don't Give Up! Manifest Your Destiny! Trust Your Process!" (January 12, 2024)
• A Royal Triumph of Women Power: SIX the Musical Reigns Supreme (January 10, 2024)
• Lions, Tigers, and Stunning Vocals, Oh My! Dorothy Shines in "The Wiz" (January 3, 2024)
• Ignorance is No Longer an Option: The Large-Scale Meat Problem in America  (December 3, 2023)
• Shakespeare Reimagined: "The Tempest" at University of Utah (November 19, 2023)
• Much Ado About . . . Something: Kenny Leon's Update to a Classic (November 15, 2023)
• Wasatch Theatre Company Features Indigenous Playwright, Larissa FastHorse and "The Thanksgiving Play" (November 12, 2023)
• Hello World! Welcome to Rhetorical Review (November 2, 2023)