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Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill: Witnessing “Strange Fruit”
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Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill: Witnessing “Strange Fruit”

The Demon Is Better Behaved: Spencer Ford on Writing Possessive! The Musical! and Taking It to Edinburgh Fringe
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The Demon Is Better Behaved: Spencer Ford on Writing Possessive! The Musical! and Taking It to Edinburgh Fringe

The Death of Nero by Mikhail Kuzmin: A Century-Old “Lost” Russian Play Finally Gets Its World Premiere in SLC Thanks to ThreePenny Theatre Company

The Death of Nero by Mikhail Kuzmin: A Century-Old “Lost” Russian Play Finally Gets Its World Premiere in SLC Thanks to ThreePenny Theatre Company

Water for Elephants Review: A Circus of Wonder on Tour

Water for Elephants Review: A Circus of Wonder on Tour

A Curse That Never Strikes: MacB*tches at MadKing’s Fellowship Theater

A Curse That Never Strikes: MacB*tches at MadKing’s Fellowship Theater

Second Week Roundup at Great Salt Lake Fringe: King John & Dramapocalypse!

Second Week Roundup at Great Salt Lake Fringe: King John & Dramapocalypse!

Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival Review: Salt Monster Theatre Co.’s Replacements

Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival Review: Salt Monster Theatre Co.’s Replacements

Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival Review: In My Room by Laura Elise Chapman

Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival Review: In My Room by Laura Elise Chapman

Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival Review: Sugar Mud by Meat Bar

Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival Review: Sugar Mud by Meat Bar

Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival Review: There’s Only Two Left

Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival Review: There’s Only Two Left

Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival Review: Happy Birthday, Mr. President

Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival Review: Happy Birthday, Mr. President

Not Today, But Surely Tomorrow: Good Company Theatre’s “Waiting for Godot”

Not Today, But Surely Tomorrow: Good Company Theatre’s “Waiting for Godot”

First Weekend Roundup at the Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival: The Variants, Polaroids from the Apocalypse, and Cache Dexter’s 2,045,148,705th Most Interesting Person in the World

First Weekend Roundup at the Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival: The Variants, Polaroids from the Apocalypse, and Cache Dexter’s 2,045,148,705th Most Interesting Person in the World

Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival Review: Diaries of a Post-Mormon Girl

Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival Review: Diaries of a Post-Mormon Girl

“Welcome to the New Century”: A Review of “The Hiss” at Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival

“Welcome to the New Century”: A Review of “The Hiss” at Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival

Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival Review: “This is Jane” Opera Tells the Real Story of Chicago’s Jane Collective

Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival Review: “This is Jane” Opera Tells the Real Story of Chicago’s Jane Collective

Twelve Shows to Catch at This Year’s Great Salt Lake Fringe

Twelve Shows to Catch at This Year’s Great Salt Lake Fringe

Who’s Directing Whom: Power and Consent in Voodoo’s Venus in Fur

Who’s Directing Whom: Power and Consent in Voodoo’s Venus in Fur

Spotlight: Power, Consent, and Seduction Take the Stage in Voodoo Theatre Company’s “Venus in Fur”

Spotlight: Power, Consent, and Seduction Take the Stage in Voodoo Theatre Company’s “Venus in Fur”

A French Toast, Both Kinds: A Review of Meanwhile Park’s New Rom-Com

A French Toast, Both Kinds: A Review of Meanwhile Park’s New Rom-Com

Alicia Keys’ Hell’s Kitchen: Music as Inheritance

Alicia Keys’ Hell’s Kitchen: Music as Inheritance

Review: SLAC’s Gaslight Zone — You Won’t Want to Leave!

Review: SLAC’s Gaslight Zone — You Won’t Want to Leave!

More Than Technique: Inside the Gina Bachauer 50th Anniversary Young Artists Semifinals

More Than Technique: Inside the Gina Bachauer 50th Anniversary Young Artists Semifinals

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The Keeping Place by Colton Kraus: Memory, Performance, and the Responsibility of Holding
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Review: The Poet and the Muse, and the Violence of Genius
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Review: DUMBED DOWN at Plan-B Theatre Company — Teaching Is Like Tylenol
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King James at Pioneer Theatre Company: Fandom, Friendship, and the Politics of Belief

Alicia Keys’ Hell’s Kitchen: Music as Inheritance

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RED Review: Control, Color, and the Cost of Creation
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Love Is Seeing Clearly in the Dark: The Phantom of the Opera at Eccles Theater
Lil Poppet Productions’ True West: Coyotes in the Kitchen
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A Funny, Bloody, Queer Gothic: Voodoo Theatre Company’s “The Moors” Bites Back
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“Keep Marching”: Suffs the Musical Brings the Suffrage Fight into 2025
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“You Still Matter”: Pioneer Theatre Company’s “Dear Evan Hansen” Hits a Nerve in Utah
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Golden Resonance: Wynona Yinuo Wang Opens Bachauer’s 50th Anniversary Season
Threads of Memory: Archive and Identity in the Work of Jessica Nicole Begay and Alexandria
Archive and Identity in the Work of Jessica Nicole Begay and
Alexandria Yaa
Hart Theatre Company's "Next to Normal": A Raw and Resonant Exploration of Mental Illness
Hart Theatre
Company’s “Next to Normal”
Life of Pi": Survival, Spirituality, and the Power of Puppetry
“Life of Pi”: Survival, Spirituality, and the Power of Puppetry
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Ballet Hispánico at Kingsbury Hall: Motion, Memory, and the Pulse of Latin Identity
A Bonfire, a Breakdown, and the End of the World: “The Grown-Ups” Utah Premiere
“The Grown-Ups” Utah Premiere
Fatherhood, Friendship, and Fragility: A Powerful Case for the Existence of God
A Powerful Case for the Existence of God
Obsession Unleashed: Onstage Adaptation of Steven King "Misery"
Onstage Adaptation of Steven King’s “Misery”
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The Wiz
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Listening Walls and Lost Names: Westminster University’s “The Hatmaker’s Wife”
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Some Like it Hot
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“Hamilton” Unbound: A Timeless Fusion of History and Modernity on Stage
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“Don’t Dream It — Be It”: “The Rocky Horror Show” at the Ziegfeld Theater
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Pygmalion’s “Be Here Now”: The Art and Ethics of Presence
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“Coach Coach”: Self-Reflexivity, Late Capitalism, and the Theatre of Becoming

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