Twenty-four hours. Five playwrights. Five directors. Fifteen actors. This is the tried and true recipe for Slam, an annual production by Plan-B Theatre Company. In twenty-three hours, five short original plays grow from infancy to full maturity. The twenty-fourth hour is when the audience is invited in to the Jeanne Wagner Theatre to see five...
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Utah Shakespeare Festival on BYUtv
Tonight BYUtv broadcasts a live performance of the Utah Shakespeare Festival’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. This is the first time in the festival’s 50 year history that a performance has been broadcast live. The play will be performed at the festival’s signature venue, the Adams Shakespearean Theatre, one of the most authentic replicas of the...
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Fearless Fringe Festival
In the last weekend of August, Salt Lake Acting Company stepped out to the fringe and they did it fearlessly. From August 26 – 28, unique voices in the theatre community had a moment in the spotlight as SLAC hosted the second annual Fearless Fringe Festival, which features new theatrical work in different phases of...
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Shakespeare Festival Turns 50
On the occasion of the Utah Shakespeare Festival's golden anniversary we sent 15 Bytes writer Dale Thompson down to Cedar City to review a couple of this year's productions.
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Duel*Ality by Another Language Performing Arts Company
reviewed by Dale Thompson Just walking in to the performance space tells you you’re in for something a little different. Another Language Performing Arts Company, founded by Elizabeth and Jimmy Miklavcic, is housed on the second floor of the Intermountain Networking and Scientific Computation Center, a research facility on the University of Utah campus. The...
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Plan B’s Mesa Verde
reviewed by Dale Thompson From the moment the audience settles in to their seats for Mesa Verde at Plan – B Theatre, it is clear that Matthew Ivan Bennett’s latest work is going to be raw and stripped to its essentials. What literally and figuratively sets the stage is the work of technical director Randy...
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Bess Wohl’s In at Pioneer Theatre Company
In this month’s edition of 15 Bytes our Culture Conversation focused on local, intimate theatre experiences, especially productions of work by local talent. Among the plays mentioned was In, the work of local playwright Bess Wohl which had its world premier this past weekend. Our review is below. Later this week on this site you’ll...
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The Persian Quarter
Review by Dale Thompson The relationship between America and Iran is often understood through headlines and sound bites that report events but do very little to explore the issues beyond the context of politics. In her latest work, which is also a world premiere, local Utah playwright Kathleen Cahill puts the tension between our two...
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Salt Lake Theatre
“I think [the audience] is going to be shocked because I think they’re expecting this to be an anti-Iranian play and its not,” says Kathleen Cahill about her new play, The Persian Quarter. Watch our video interview with the playwright that accompanies Dale Thompson’s article on the state of theatre in Salt Lake. READ the...
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Go To Hell
Go To Hell: New Theatre from . . . a New Theatreby Davey Davis Go To Hell. A flippant condemnation, and a preview of things to come. There’s lots of skin-deep but fiery anger behind the first production from The New Works Theater Machine, and a whole lot more to behold. The New Works Theater...
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