Tag Archive for 'plan-b-theatre'
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 gives an exceptional rendition of an exceptional story
0 Comments Published by Professor Les May 31st, 2008 in Salt Lake City, Performing Arts, Theater.At the beginning of The Tricky Part, Martin Moran — that is, actor David Spencer — comes to the stage, casually reminding audience members to switch off their cell phones and he immediately sets the audience at ease. There is an air of improvisation. However, for the next 80 minutes, Moran’s monologue is anything but […]
