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Plan-B Theatre, KUER’s RadioWest plan live broadcast premiere of Radio Hour Episode 12

April 23, 2018 By Les Roka Leave a Comment

Plan-B Theatre, KUER’s RadioWest plan live broadcast premiere of Radio Hour Episode 12

NOTE: On Thursday, April 26 at 9 a.m., The Utah Review will live blog the only live performance of Radio Hour Episode 12: Stand, produced by Plan-B Theatre and KUER-FM’s RadioWest program. Tune into KUER-FM 90.1 and follow The Utah Review during the broadcast. Utah playwright Matthew Ivan Bennett is impeccably an artist of Renaissance […]

Samba Fogo’s Ouça promises to be exuberant, gregarious visual, listening experience

April 19, 2018 By Les Roka Leave a Comment

Samba Fogo’s Ouça promises to be exuberant, gregarious visual, listening experience

The guitarist Andre Feriante wrote that we “live in silence.” In finding his natural pulse as a composer, he believes “music that is aware of the gates of silence can cause you to see more of where you really live.” Music that inspires contemplation and heightened senses can take many forms – introspective and quiet […]

Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company to close out season with Return, featuring music by Salt Lake Electric Ensemble; cultural diplomacy tour to South Korea, Mongolia

April 17, 2018 By Les Roka 1 Comment

Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company to close out season with Return, featuring music by Salt Lake Electric Ensemble; cultural diplomacy tour to South Korea, Mongolia

Many of the best literary works of science fiction, when they touch on entropy in complex systems, technologies and problems of existential significance, excel in how they render the human community of characters in genuine emotional and spiritual attributes. In the starkest environment, there is an overwhelming hunger, as portrayed literally and metaphorically. This was […]

Unconventional pairings, old and new, highlight NOVA Chamber Music Series’ Bach and New Horizons

April 9, 2018 By Les Roka Leave a Comment

Unconventional pairings, old and new, highlight NOVA Chamber Music Series’ Bach and New Horizons

Today, it seems unbelievable to think that in the decades following J.S. Bach’s death in 1750, his music was relegated for the most part to obscurity. Concert life in the 18th century was vastly different from today’s programming objectives, as William Weber, a frequently cited social historian of music, has researched. In 18th century Leipzig, […]

Repertory Dance Theatre’s Current concert brings two world premieres, works by three former dancers and winner of 2017 Regalia choreographer competition

April 5, 2018 By Les Roka Leave a Comment

Repertory Dance Theatre’s Current concert brings two world premieres, works by three former dancers and winner of 2017 Regalia choreographer competition

Dance’s creative laboratory is much like its scientific counterpart. The drive to experiment is informed and directed by the history of revolution and breakthroughs in methodology, technique and process. Those who participate in the laboratory – as mentor or choreographer, as new scientist or dancer – eventually move on, further consolidating the legacy of their […]

Plan-B Theatre, Flying Bobcat Theatrical Laboratory to take audiences on breathless, dizzying ride in Austin Archer’s Jump

March 27, 2018 By Les Roka Leave a Comment

Plan-B Theatre, Flying Bobcat Theatrical Laboratory to take audiences on breathless, dizzying ride in Austin Archer’s Jump

Nearly nine years ago, Shirley Dygert, then in her mid-50s, went on her first tandem jump at the Skydive Houston drop zone in Texas. Her husband, who had plenty of thrilling experiences of his own as a cliff diver, stayed on the ground to photograph his wife’s first jump. As a 2014 Sports Illustrated feature […]

UMFA talk to feature Spencer Finch, who created largest Pantone installation piece Great Salt Lake and Vicinity

March 23, 2018 By Les Roka Leave a Comment

UMFA talk to feature Spencer Finch, who created largest Pantone installation piece Great Salt Lake and Vicinity

One of the most popular stops since the Utah Museum of Fine Arts reopened last year after its comprehensive renovation is Great Salt Lake and Vicinity, an installation artwork by Spencer Finch featuring more than 1,100 Pantone color swatches in the museum’s G. W. Anderson Family Great Hall. The work constitutes a richly detailed field […]

Utah Film Center’s 7th Peek Award honors Dina, Sundance award-winning documentary

March 20, 2018 By Les Roka Leave a Comment

Utah Film Center’s 7th Peek Award honors Dina, Sundance award-winning documentary

Dina, a documentary film about a middle-aged woman with Asperger’s Syndrome who marries her boyfriend (Scott), is a perfectly timed selection for the 7th Peek Award for Disability in Film by the Utah Film Center. The film, which took the Grand Jury Prize in documentaries at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, continues an evolving narrative […]

Fry Street Quartet to close out Haydn-Bartók cycle in NOVA Chamber Music Series gallery concert

March 19, 2018 By Les Roka Leave a Comment

Fry Street Quartet to close out Haydn-Bartók cycle in NOVA Chamber Music Series gallery concert

An atypical but most enlightening cycle juxtaposing string quartets composed by Franz Joseph Haydn and Béla Bartók will come to a close in a March 25 concert by the Fry Street Quartet, as part of the NOVA Chamber Music Series’ gallery programs. Two Bartók quartets – the lyrical second and the experimental fourth which employs […]

Utah Film Center to present 7th Tumbleweeds kids film festival March 2-4 at three SLC downtown venues

February 23, 2018 By Les Roka 1 Comment

Utah Film Center to present 7th Tumbleweeds kids film festival March 2-4 at three SLC downtown venues

The seventh presentation of the Utah Film Center’s Tumbleweeds Film Festival for Children and Youth from March 2-4 promises to be the most ambitious for the Intermountain West region’s only children’s film festival. There are 15 feature-length films, 14 of which are receiving their Utah premieres. The slate represents 12 countries on four continents. There […]

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World, U.S. premieres highlight recent spring productions of Sackerson, Repertory Dance Theatre, NOVA Chamber Music Series

World, U.S. premieres highlight recent spring productions of Sackerson, Repertory Dance Theatre, NOVA Chamber Music Series

By Les Roka

This spring has blossomed with numerous adventurous concerts and performances, including several world and U.S. premieres, with works presented by the Repertory Dance Theatre, Sackerson and NOVA Chamber Music Series. SACKERSON: SCARLET For a small theatrical company without a permanent home, Sackerson has managed consistently to electrify the Salt Lake City performing arts scene with […]

Jonathon Thompson’s River of Lost Souls superbly probes long historical chain leading to Gold King Mine disaster

Jonathon Thompson’s River of Lost Souls superbly probes long historical chain leading to Gold King Mine disaster

By Les Roka

Near Salt Lake City, the Bingham Canyon Open Pit Copper Mine sits atop a 70-square-mile underground plume of contaminated groundwater. A burst spilling into the valleys could trigger Utah’s worst environmental disaster ever. While the Gold King Mine spill that occurred in southwestern Colorado attracted a great deal of public attention in early August 2015, […]

Jump by Plan-B Theatre, Flying Bobcat Theatrical Laboratory achieves unique poignance

Jump by Plan-B Theatre, Flying Bobcat Theatrical Laboratory achieves unique poignance

By Les Roka

When the play Jump opens, the audience is enjoying the pithy, rapid banter between Erick, the young confident skydiver (Matthew Sincell), and Phil (Darryl Stamp), a 60-year-old first-timer, as they prepare for the fateful jump from 12,000 feet above the ground. The audience laughs as Erick tries to ease the nerves of Phil, who rattles […]

Etiquette: pop-up production by Sackerson that redefines theater

Etiquette: pop-up production by Sackerson that redefines theater

By Les Roka

NOTE: The review of Etiquette is written by Matthew Ivan Bennett, a Utah playwright whose work has been premiered by Plan-B Theatre. Bennett’s next premiere is Radio Hour Episode 12: Stand, which will be presented by Plan-B Theatre and KUER-FM’s RadioWest program live on April 26 at 9 a.m. Etiquette may sound like the title […]

Timeless values shape Salt Lake City Public Library’s celebrations of key historic milestones, new 21st century initiatives

Timeless values shape Salt Lake City Public Library’s celebrations of key historic milestones, new 21st century initiatives

By Les Roka

There are three milestones this year for the Salt Lake City Public Library system. The City Library main branch marks its 15th year in its award-winning building, the system celebrates its 120th anniversary and the Chapman branch in the Poplar Grove neighborhood on the city’s west side, one of the last Carnegie libraries in Utah, […]

The Weird Play, co-production of Plan-B Theatre and Sackerson, a liberating theatrical experience of love and interpretation

The Weird Play, co-production of Plan-B Theatre and Sackerson, a liberating theatrical experience of love and interpretation

By Les Roka

More than 50 years ago, Susan Sontag’s essay Against Interpretation became one of her most famous and widely scrutinized writings. Sontag wrote in the last line of the essay, “In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art,” – a declaration that resonated in her deep admiration for Franz Kafka’s work and, in […]

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