
If You Can’t Laugh at Tragedy Then You’re in Trouble
Morag Shepherd’s latest play, MY BROTHER WAS A VAMPIRE, is a horror comedy that follows a bizarre, broken, and blisteringly brazen journey in reverse. Siblings
Morag Shepherd’s latest play, MY BROTHER WAS A VAMPIRE, is a horror comedy that follows a bizarre, broken, and blisteringly brazen journey in reverse. Siblings
Plan-B Theatre’s Script-In-Hand Series, launched in 2004, provides the first public audience for many a play. This season’s series has a festival vibe to it,
A couple of years ago, something happened that threw me off. No, it wasn’t the global pandemic — though COVID did affect me and my
I have been attending LDS Singles wards for twenty-four years. Once, while discussing my single status with my sister, we joked about me sitting at
Most folks have a love/hate relationship with winter here in the valley. For me it has been hate/hate/hate/strongly dislike/disdain/tolerate/resign to; trending towards acceptance. It has
THE CLEAN-UP PROJECT began as a journal entry in response to the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. I told Jerry Rapier at Plan-B
Seasonal fruitcake and year-beginning resolutions are both mostly fruitless, but we still have to try some each year. Fruitcakes have a prodigious self-life while the resolutions
If Utah and most of the rest of the country is going to continue this Sisyphean cycle of Daylight Saving/Losing fake time travel, I’m going
ROSE EXPOSED: WE JUST DON’T KNOW receives its world premiere Saturday, August 28 at 8 pm in the Jeanne Wagner Theatre at the Rose Wagner
The first draft of what ultimately became my play ALLI AND #3 was pretty much a disaster; the only piece I liked was the character
The act of going within to heal, however needed these days, easily gets pushed aside like the pile of holey socks and shirts that has
It’s July and the temperatures are pushing 100, school’s out, and tourists are stampeding through the wild places as if they were nervously crossing the
The Living Traditions Festival is celebrating 35 years of fostering the preservation and inclusion of Utah’s diverse cultural landscape through presentations of dance, music, craft,
LOCAL COLOR is comprised of four short plays by members of Plan-B’s Theatre Artists of Color Writing Workshop: DoLs by Dee-Dee Darby-Duffin (a comedy about becoming friends in the most awkward situation imaginable); GUISE by Chris Curlett (a dramedy about [re]defining masculinity); ORGANIC by Tito Livas (a dark comedy about love, perception and Grindr); and SUCIDE BOX by Tatiana Christian (an even darker comedy about the deadly side of customer service).
As a writer-actor, I seek an actor’s viewpoint when I write. But I found that I needed more in developing my new play Art & Class,
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