When Plan-B Theatre’s anthology of eight original, full-length plays is published next month by Juniper Press and Oxide Books, the book will be a compelling, vivid testament to the company’s growing influential presence on Salt Lake City’s cultural scene. In fact, Plan-B hardly plays a modest subculture role in the community. The Plays From Behind […]

For more than 70 years, there has been a persistent fascination with the story of Everett Ruess, the young artist and naturalist who, in 1934, disappeared at the age of 20 in the Escalante canyon country of southern Utah. In fact, the years have hardly dimmed the vibrancy of the young Ruess’s memory, a living […]

“Say that I starved;
that I was lost and weary:
That I was burned and blinded by the desert sun;
Footsore, thirsty, sick with strange diseased;
Lonely and wet and cold, but that I kept my dream!”
Everett Ruess – Wilderness Song
As a high school sophomore, Debora Threedy took her first acting class to overcome her fear of speaking […]

Plan-B Theatre, along with the Theatre Arts Conservatory, will open 2008 with a student version of its popular “extreme” slam-styled event in which a set of five 10-minute plays is created, rehearsed, and performed in 24 hours.
The culmination of this frenetic creative process, featuring 25 actors between the ages of 14 and 19,will be presented […]

Don’t expect a whiff of historical accuracy when Gutenberg! The Musical! comes to the Plan-B Theatre stage later this month. However, this madcap biographical treatment of the printing press inventor – called by Variety “as accurate as a political campaign commercial, albeit more amusing” – does have a worthy message for those in the business […]

Editor’s Note: Since 1991, Plan-B Theatre has enjoyed a continuously growing presence on the city’s performing arts scene. Operating under a small professional theatre agreement with Actors’ Equity Association, the company has developed a reputation for original productions and premieres of plays that encompass a diverse range of issues hitting directly at the heart of […]