EDITOR’S NOTE: Sundance’s elite short film slate is highlighted. Les Roka’s reviews five short films from various offerings while Thomas Dugrosprez reviews this year’s Animation Short Program. The ...

This year’s selections in The Utah Review for the top ten moments of the Utah Enlightenment in 2025, the eleventh annual edition, stood out for being fearless, fierce and indomitable in human spirit.

This year’s Sundance slate included short film programs, including focused tracks in animation, documentary and midnight-appropriate stories. The slate is filled with outstanding examples of the short ...

Starting its second decade, the Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival will feature 23 shows, many from outstanding indie theater companies in three venues, during the event which will run from July 24 to ...

Twelve awards were announced today in the 22nd annual Fear No Film portion of the Utah Arts Festival, including a Grand Jury Prize, Fearless Filmmaker Award, four honorable mentions and six audience ...

In the mixed media painting Consuela – dee Flying Yoke, Mexican-born artist Amelec Diaz offers a brilliant statement on the stubbornness of efforts to prevent any attempts to introduce, enrich and ...

FIRE . . . flaming, burning, searing, and penetrating far beneath the superficial items of the flesh to boil the sluggish blood. FIRE … a cry of conquest in the night, warning those who sleep and ...

Although the feature-length slate is among the smallest in the festival’s history, the lineup of six documentaries, indeed, is a bracing exploration of fearlessness, highly elucidating and even ...

Marking its tenth anniversary season, UtahPresents, a major performing arts presenter at the University of Utah, has a blockbuster slate for the 2025-2026 season. This includes a phenomenal ...

A fantastic exhibition of dance ensemble chemistry, the Lo and Behold concert by the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company was the perfect spring tonic. In all three works – a new commission created by Culture ...

For Ballet West dancers, the company’s historic production of The Nutcracker is more than an annual holiday tradition. For many, it is a proving ground. It is sort of a report card for dancers who are ...

“Only one who knows English in its Elizabethan fullness, who can ride with gusto the Elizabethan winds of rhetoric, lyric, and vituperation, who puts no bounds to the theater’s mirroring of nature and ...