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Performing Arts

Jesse McCartney on Aug. 5, 2006 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (Photo by Paparazzo Presents)

Jesse McCartney’s Blast from the Past

By Adelina Whitten July 13, 2018

Hearing “Beautiful Soul” on the stereo brings us back to the early 2000s when Jesse McCartney was a teenage heartthrob whose music we played on repeat. However, we don’t have to listen through a...

Ballet Technique Class

The Grown-up Ballet Intensive

By Abigail Raasch, Arts Writer July 10, 2018

In the middle of hot Salt Lake City summers, students from all over the world come to train with the University of Utah School of Dance Ballet Program and various guest artists during a four-week period....

Explore More of the Wizarding World with Apple Juice Productions

Explore More of the Wizarding World with Apple Juice Productions

By Jaycen Eggleston May 25, 2018

We were all hoping for letters on our eleventh birthdays. When they didn’t come we were all a little disappointed, but also felt silly for having hoped in the first place. Because we couldn’t go to...

The cast of Mamma Mia!  Courtesy Pioneer Theatre Company.

PTC’s “Mamma Mia!” Is a Dancing Queen Disappointment

By Josh Petersen May 20, 2018

In “Mamma Mia!” now playing at Pioneer Theatre Company, audiences nostalgically look back to a simpler time watching characters nostalgically reflect farther to an even simpler time. On stage, the...

Appreciate the Arts this Summer with Utah Arts Festival

Appreciate the Arts this Summer with Utah Arts Festival

By Palak Jayswal, Arts Editor May 17, 2018

Kick your summer off right with the largest outdoor arts festival in Utah. The Utah Arts Festival has won awards for its production each year in downtown Salt Lake City on local, national and international...

Mary Fanning Driggs, Coleen Sexton, and Amy Bodnar in Mamma Mia!  Courtesy Pioneer Theatre Company.

Take a Chance on PTC’s “Mamma Mia!”

By Josh Petersen May 7, 2018

Here we go again. If you are pining for a bygone era of bell-bottoms, disco balls and terrible haircuts, you may want to experience Pioneer Theatre Company’s production of “Mamma Mia!” This final...

Photo Courtesy Twilight Concerts

Summer Music Guide: Affordable In-State Concerts

By Josh Petersen April 28, 2018

For many University of Utah students, music festivals and outdoor concerts can be as fundamental to summer as ice cream, swimming and sunburns. While many festivals across the world attract hundreds of...

Red Bike

“Red Bike” Rides Straight into Success

By Jaycen Eggleston April 26, 2018

CORRECTION: "Red Bike" was not produced in 2017, the play received a reading in that year. “Hopes and dreams aren’t dead yet, they’re alive here,” an audience member said during the panel discussion...

Teresa Vibanco and Halee Rasmussen work on a set piece inside the Babcock Theater, Nov 8, 2016. Adam Fondren Daily Utah Chronicle.

Arts Are a Foundation for Academic Success

By Jaycen Eggleston April 25, 2018

In her opening remarks at an ArtsLINK conference held at the University of Utah on March 3, Kelby McIntyre-Martinez, assistant dean for Arts Education & Community Engagement at the U, explained the...

Cap and Gown with 18 School of Humanities tassle in Salt Lake City, UT on Tuesday, April 10, 2018

(Photo by Adam Fondren | Daily Utah Chronicle)

Pursuing Dreams Over High Salary Degrees

By Madge Slack April 23, 2018

Many students entering college and even those well into their degree are plagued by the question: Am I in the right major? Business, science, humanities, they all have stigmas attached. Business majors...