Archive for the 'Theater' Category
Plan-B Theatre restores Frankenstein classic with chilling effect to its rightful literary place
0 Comments Published by Professor Les October 17th, 2008 in Performing Arts, Salt Lake City, Theater, Community Dialogue, Current Events, Pop Culture.Neither Halloween nor Hollywood has done much to enhance the literary value of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. While there is an extensive canon of literary criticism postulating in many diverse, conflicting ways about the young author’s intentions, the story has had a huge phenomenological impact upon the popular imagination. Langdon Winner, a Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute scholar […]
Matthew Ivan Bennett’s distinctive Utah voice shapes an adventurous Plan-B season
0 Comments Published by Professor Les September 14th, 2008 in Performing Arts, Salt Lake City, Theater, Community Dialogue, Communication, Current Events.In some respects, the decision to build an entire Plan-B Theatre season around the works of a 31-year-old Utah playwright appears unprecedentedly bold, perhaps even extraordinarily risky.
However, Plan-B’s visibility and reputation have increasingly been built upon works of original voice, always transcending local and national borders when its comes to the contemporary problems and challenges […]
Plan-B’s And The Banned Played On fundraiser set for July 21
0 Comments Published by Professor Les July 8th, 2008 in Salt Lake City, Performing Arts, Theater, Community Dialogue, Current Events.Editor’s Note: The Plan-B Theatre Company will hold its sixth annual fundraiser — And The Banned Played On — Monday, July 21, in the Jeanne Wagner Theater of the Rose Wagner Center for the Performing Arts. The event is also a celebration of the freedom of artistic expression afforded by the First Amendment. Company members […]
