Tag: Salt Lake Acting Company
Peculiar yet approachable, alternating between effulgent and piercing, complex and elucidating, Audrey Cefaly’s play Alabaster on paper, at first glance, might not be the ideal candidate for a filmed theatrical production, especially as part of the National...
Spring 2021 news from three independent theatrical companies in Salt Lake City include a $1 million capital campaign, a fine update on the dinner theater genre and a video piece highlighting the multifaceted legacy of Utah women.
INTRODUCTION
One year ago, when The Utah Review presented the 2019 edition of the top 10 moments of the Utah Enlightenment, it was a jubilant representation of Utah’s integral strengths as a community of...
In a different immigration system, a Palestinian chef, a Pakistani cartoonist and a Mexican army medic, who came to the U.S. as a child but was deported as an adult because he lacked updated documents, would have...
Major anniversaries always call for big celebrations. For an independent performing arts company, a golden anniversary not only demands an extravaganza but it also is a moment to highlight the triumph of resilience in demonstrating to the...
Several major arts organizations in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area have adapted their programming and classes to streaming and interactive platforms. Initial responses and numbers of participants also have been encouraging, indicating that arts and culture...
Nora Helmer likely would be pleased at how far Norway has
come in gender equality. In the World
Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index, Norway ranks second, eclipsed
only by Iceland, and has closed 84 percent of its gender gap....
Since The Utah Review started publishing in 2014, the emphasis
on the Utah Enlightenment has dominated the coverage of what is new and
original in the arts and culture landscape locally. Utah’s natural beauty
always has appealed strongly as a...
Never underestimate the discriminating influence of the young
reader and children’s audiences in the performing arts. Few markets in the literary
publishing industry are as competitive as children’s books. The most successful
stories may start with a fantastical, even wacky,...
The world that Amali Wilson is about to experience as an adolescent who has just begun her menstrual cycle is, on one hand, a turbulent one marked by police brutality, sexual assault, discrimination and disenfranchisement. On the...
