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The Anthem of Summer: Reflections on Youth Theatre 2024
August 19, 2024Guest post by Penelope Caywood, Youth Theatre Artistic Director and Adjunct Assistant Professor “At Theatre SchoolThe way that I liveThe thoughts that I thinkThe things that I giveMy personal...
Learning in London
August 09, 2024
Everybody dies; getting there is the exciting part in our final production
March 25, 2024It’s not until the play has already started that we find out what role each cast member will be playing for that particular performance. It’s a lottery system. Done live for all to see. And that’s...
Theatre’s “Dancing at Lughnasa” lives where tradition meets modernization
March 08, 2024Widely regarded as playwright Brian Friel’s masterpiece, Dancing at Lughnasa is a luminous, touching portrait of a family trapped by tradition on one side and modernization on the other,...
Remembering Marilyn Holt, the “Matriarch of Utah Theatre”
March 06, 2024Theatre in Utah has been rich with leading ladies, and our community has unfortunately lost one of our greatest: Marilyn Robinson Holt (1928-2024). She earned three degrees at the University of...
Welcoming Our New MTP Head: Erin Farrell Speer
May 15, 2023Please join us in welcoming Erin Farrell Speer to the Department of Theatre as the new head of the Musical Theatre Program! Most recently, Erin was an Assistant Professor at the University of North...
Genre-Defying, Gender-Inclusive AS YOU LIKE IT Is a Raucous, Joyful Riff on a Shakespeare Classic
March 12, 2023When Rosalind meets Orlando, the chemistry is undeniable. Their courtship will have to wait, however: almost immediately afterward, Rosalind is banished from court on pain of death. Meanwhile,...
THE SWEET SCIENCE OF BRUISING Takes On the Hidden History of Women's Boxing
February 07, 2023[SALT LAKE CITY, UT, FEBRUARY 7, 2023] – The University of Utah Department of Theatre presents Joy Wilkinson’s The Sweet Science of Bruising. The production runs from February 17 through February...