Students can now purchase up to two half-price tickets to Ballet West’s Valentine’s production of Madame Butterfly and Gong. The production began on Feb. 13 and will continue until this Saturday. Student rush tickets can be purchased no earlier than one hour before the performance begins – 6:30 p.
Two UVU student choreographers will compete in the Choreography Design Project this Thursday and Friday in the Ragan Theater. The Project, which is sponsored by the Utah Regional Ballet, allows emerging, pre-professional, and professional choreographers to compete with their peers, using professional dancers.
Last Friday Clark Planetarium opened Under the Sea 3D, a documentary narrated by Jim Carrey about life in the ocean in exotic, isolated locations in the Indo-Pacific region. Fish seemingly appear to float around the theater in true 3D form. According to imax.
G, widely known for its uncomplicated, mysterious sign on Geneva Road near Center Street in Orem, is home to UVU student Guillermo Cruz. The establishment, which is set up as a cozy single-serving buffet style restaurant, is also Cruz’s base camp for a catering and personal chef service.
Valentine’s day is coming up on Saturday, and until then students are sure to be bombarded from every avenue with hearts, naked babies with wings, chocolate, and flowers. For some, this week is an ethereal time, devoted to love. And you know we love love. For others, Valentine’s day is just a reminder that you’re alone, with happy couples shoving their collective joy in your forsaken face.
It’s probably happened to you before, after a long day at school and/or work, you get home to realize that you only have ten minutes to prepare for that big date. Panic sets in, logic takes a back seat, and you’re insecure for the rest of the night. Here’s how to get pretty for a date without the hysteria.
Three of the Timpanogos Storytelling Festival’s favorite story tellers will perform at the Midwinter Storytelling Conference this Friday at Mountain View High School in Orem. Local favorite Bill Harley, joined by Elizabeth Ellis and Syd Lieberman, will perform amid two days of storytelling workshops at the BYU Conference Center, held Feb.
UVU’s production of Nosferatu, a multimedia re-creation of the German silent film originally directed by F.W. Murnau, has been chosen to perform in the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival in Los Angeles. Nosferatu will perform again in UVU’s Ragan theater this week in preparation for the festival.
Twelfth Night, which was performed at UVU in December, is making a second showing this month at Scera Center for the Arts. Don’t go to this event expecting a run-of-the-mill Shakespeare play — director John Graham has designed the performance around a French European 1920s classic chic concept, mixed in with a few punk and emo elements.
Producing Chess is an ambitious choice, even for venues with funding and resources that greatly outnumber those available at UVU. Therefore, the UVU theater department’s choice to put on the show seemed pretty shocking. Chess, written by MAMMA MIA composers Bj?rn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, along with lyricist Tim Rice, is filled with taxing vocals for both the ensemble and leading characters.