Tag: Salt Lake Acting Company
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...
The riveting counterpoint between Kennedy, a Kenyan driver for hire, and Sarah, a well-intentioned American engineer who leads a road construction project in the African country, animates the astutely integrated strands of historical, political, moral, social and...
If there ever was a congregational vote to sustain the creative leadership that has made Saturday’s Voyeur, the annual summer theatrical tradition of the Salt Lake Acting Company (SLAC), a resilient success year to year, it would...
In 1931, as the Great Depression’s grip tightened, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the obituary for the flimsy age of roaring confidence and youth-driven abandon that had been “jolted” out of existence when the stock market crashed in...
