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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 Theatre’s starring role in the city’s cultural scene

0 Comments Published by Professor Les April 16th, 2008 in Performing Arts, Theater, Community Dialogue, Uncategorized.

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 […]

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