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Five stars of the critically acclaimed musical television series NASHVILLE will perform in Park City this Saturday, August 23, 2014 in the unprecedented Nashville Cafe concert at Deer Valley Resort's Snow Park Outdoor Amphitheater. BroadwayWorld was given the opportunity to speak with both Clar...

Two-time Tony Award winner (and six-time nominee) Sutton Foster is coming to Utah! Direct from her critically acclaimed turn in VIOLET on Broadway, she will be gracing the stage of Brigham Young University's de Jong Concert Hall as part of its BRAVO! professional performing arts series, on Friday an...

The first production in Utah Rep's 2nd Stage series is LOVE LETTERS, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The readers' theater drama stars two highly acclaimed Utah performers: Mark and April Fossen, under the direction of Chase Ramsey....

AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY, honored with the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and five Tony Awards (including Best Play), will be staged from August 15 to 31, in a co-production by Utah Repertory Theater Company and Silver Summit Theatre. Director Mark Fossen shared with BroadwayWorld his passion for the play,...

Pulitzer Prize nominee Craig Wright recently spoke with BroadwayWorld about his drama GRACE, which played on Broadway in 2012 and will have its Utah premiere this month. Utah Repertory Theater Company and Around the Globe Theatre will stage the co-production April 25-May 10 at the Sugar Space Theatr...

The upcoming production at the SCERA Center for the Arts will be the final farewell performance of THE FARLEY FAMILY REUNION. After years and years of fun and laughter, and thousands of shows around the country, James Arrington has decided that this will be the very last time he'll perform the show...

The delightful Rebecca Watson took the time out of her busy rehearsal schedule to speak with BroadwayWorld about her role as Beatrice in Pioneer Theatre Company's production of Shakespeare's MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, opening this weekend....

Spencer Liff, a rising star in the dance world, happily took time from his demanding schedule to speak with BroadwayWorld about some of his dance experiences, as well as about his choreography for A SNOW WHITE CHRISTMAS, playing at the Jeanne Wagner Theatre this holiday season....

"To reflect the beauty of autumn," American Shakespeare Center veteran and popular Utah singer-actress Eve Speer will present "Autumn Song: A Musical Evening" Friday, Nov. 8, in the Chateau at Le Jardin in Sandy, Utah....

Creative team members of Utah Repertory Theater Company's 'Bonnie & Clyde' had the rare opportunity to meet with composer Frank Wildhorn in preparation for the company's Utah premiere of the musical....

RENT has become a musical classic! Part of American Theatre history. Nearly 20 years later, this edgy rock musical's message still resonates, bringing something new to each generation....

Utah Repertory Theater Company is gearing up to present the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical RENT from September 20 to October 6 at downtown Salt Lake City's The Project. Musical director Rick Rea spoke with BroadwayWorld about the personal and universal impact of the groundbreaking ...

Janine Sobeck, dramaturg for Utah Repertory Theater's upcoming production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's CAROUSEL, has a number of impressive credits to her name, including working on the pre-Broadway engagement of NEXT TO NORMAL at Arena Stage. She graciously spoke with BroadwayWorld to discuss her c...

Local actor William Cooper Howell is currently performing the role of Che in EVITA (music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Tim Rice) at the Egyptian Theatre in Park City. He was happy to answer questions from BroadwayWorld about his involvement in the production, as well as other theatre experience...

Saratoga Springs Theatre Company will soon be the first theatre in Utah, and among the first in the nation, to produce the hilarious and poignant SHREK THE MUSICAL. An exceptionally talented local cast will bring the iconic Dreamworks animated film to life in a regional premiere....

Johnny Hebda is the founder of an exciting new theatre company in Utah-the Utah Musical Theatre Company. He took the time out of his busy schedule to speak with BroadwayWorld about the theatre's ambitious mission, its debut production, Side Show, and the rest of its upcoming season....

The lead roles of conjoined twins Violet and Daisy Hilton in the musical 'Side Show' are certainly among the most challenging in Broadway history. Along with performing the rewarding score, the two actresses must simulate their unfortunate 'Siamese twins' connection without gimmicks, because the sho...

The world premiere of The Christmas Box, a musical stage adaptation of Richard Paul Evans' bestselling novel (music, lyrics, and book by David R. Naylor), is being presented at Empress Theatre in Magna this holiday season....

Tony-nominated Douglas Sills, the original Sir Percy Blakeney in The Scarlet Pimpernel on Broadway, is currently starring as Gomez in the national tour of The Addams Family at the Capitol Theatre. He was gracious enough to take the time to speak with BroadwayWorld about his experiences reinventing ...

Natalie Toro, star of A Tale of Two Cities on Broadway, took some time during her run as Camila in In the Heights at Pioneer Theatre Company to teach a master class to local actors: "Acting Through Song."...

Lauren Noll talks about working with local theaters and her final job before setting off to make it on the Great White Way....

Utah native Thayne Jasperson talks about his debut on Broadway as Darcy in NEWSIES, his desire to play Tarzan and how he doesn't want to grow up....

Zion Theatre Company founder Mahonri Stewart is a prolific local playwright who has had over a dozen of his plays produced by theatre companies in Utah. Stewart graciously agreed to speak with BroadwayWorld about his new theatre company....

Founded in 1991, the Salt Lake City-based Plan-B Theatre Company develops and produces unique and socially conscious theater, with a particular emphasis on new plays by Utah playwrights. Broadway World caught up with the company's producing director, Jerry Rapier. ...

From staring in THE CHORUS LINE on Broadway to Co-Executive Producer at Salt Lake Acting Company, Cynthia Fleming is one of the movers and shakers in the Salt Lake theater scene....

Local director and actor Lane Richins talks about his current production, Chapter Two, those who have an influence on his work and bird watching....

Local actor Jesse Peery talks Utah theater, upcoming projects and gives advice to those wanting to do what he does. ...

When Pioneer Theatre Company premiered Charles Morey's "Laughing Stock" in 2001, New York actor Craig Bockhorn was cast as one of the leads. And now Bockhorn revisits the same role with Charles Morey, the play's director and author, for the Pioneer Theatre Company's second staging, which will open F...

The national tour of the hit Broadway musical ROCK of AGES rolls into Salt Lake City's Kingsbury Hall on March 2-3. Broadway World interviews the tour's Stacee Jaxx, played by Matt Nolan. ...

Exclusive Broadway World interview with Jacquelyne Jones, the actor playing Zorro's love interest in the U.S. premiere of ZORRO The Musical at the Hale Centre Theatre, in West Valley, Utah....

Exclusive Broadway World interview with Derek Smith, the actor playing the lead role in the U.S. premiere of ZORRO The Musical at the Hale Centre Theatre, in West Valley, Utah. Next year, a national tour and Broadway debut is planned. ...