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

Jan 22, 2025 · Repertory Dance Theatre’s Emerge was splendid multigenerational showcase of Utah dance talent January 16, 2025; Pioneer Theatre and Arizona Theatre companies’ co-production of fresh adaptation of Dial M for Murder classic thriller is riveting, gobsmackingly good

Jan 2, 2025 · EDITOR’S NOTE: This review and interview feature of Porcelain War, the winner of the Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. Documentary Competition at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, was first published last year at The Utah Review.

Jan 15, 2025 · It is like no other tale Salt Lake City audiences will hear this holiday season. Televangelist Lucas Karol heals the “sick,” performs “exorcisms,” but most importantly, collects donations from his followers for these miracles on his daytime TV show, Scriptures Unscripted.

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Jan 23, 2025 · EDITOR’S NOTE: Part II summarizes the films and programs from Sundance 2025 that are part of The Utah Review coverage.For Part I which is an overview of the state of the film industry in Utah, see here.. Among the Sundance feature-length films with a significant Utah connection is Omaha, a drama filmed in Utah about a father who takes his two children on a cross-country trip, after a family ...

3 days ago · KILO-WAT is Plan-B Theatre’s first play that touches prominently on sports and in particular, an athlete — Misaka, in this case. While Swenson has made Misaka’s historical legacy as a basketball player a compelling entry point into the story, audience members will learn, within the space of less than an hour, that his legendary story is more deep-seated in its historical importance than ...

This week, Ballet West’s new production will give the trinity of art, dance and music a resplendent tribute fit for an empress. It will feature Utah premieres of works by two of the best-known international choreographers and a reprise of a Balanchine masterpiece that was the choreographer’s first work he set in America 90 years …

5 days ago · The 2023 National Geographic documentary The Mission, directed by Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss, captured the story of John Chau, 26, an Oral Roberts University graduate and evangelical missionary who was killed in 2018 by arrows when he attempted to make contact with one of the most isolated Indigenous peoples, on remote North Sentinel Island …

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