POSTED // Sep 6,2007 - Just like a new kid in town who wants to be popular, a new or obscure play sometimes resorts to name-dropping to get attention. Without sophisticated-sounding awards or quoted critic quips to prop up a play, saying you know or are in with the cool, established...

POSTED // Sep 6,2007 - The moment you see the lecture hall setting and a giant Star of David looming in the background, you know that Plan-B Theatre Company’s Masada is not a show that allows worries and cares to disappear. In fact, by the time Masada is over, you feel...

POSTED // Sep 6,2007 - A woman pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman in 1930s Paris. That was the simple premise for Victor, Victoria, the Academy Award-winning 1982 film musical that starred Julie Andrews and was directed by her husband Blake Edwards (of Pink Panther...

POSTED // Sep 6,2007 - In the movie Crossroads, Ralph Macchio beats the Devil by returning to his roots. He plays what’s in his heart—highly trained classical guitar combined with the blues and rock he loves. At a similar crossroads, KRCL 91 FM, Salt Lake City’s...

POSTED // Sep 6,2007 - Throughout history artists have grappled with media such as stone, clay, bronze, video monitors or the earth itself in an attempt to speak through sculptural form directly to human experience. Continuing Dialogue at the Salt Lake Art Center presents the...

POSTED // Sep 6,2007 - In today’s alt-rock-saturated consumer culture, so-called “rebellion” is sold easily as stock. And it’s a pretty callow sight, too: Marilyn Manson makes a spectacle of Satanism, one of rock’s most tired clichés, then...

POSTED // Sep 6,2007 - The history of art has always been profoundly influenced by a parallel history of technological development. The creation of tools like oil paint, the printing press and the camera have forever changed the way artists interpret and present the world....

POSTED // Sep 6,2007 - Parents fainted. Legislators tried to put age limits on it. And professional illustrators raked in the cash. We’re talking, of course, about tattoos, the epidermal art that made twentysomething skin the canvas of the ’90s. But like every fad,...

POSTED // Sep 6,2007 - Throughout the history of art, one of the most pervasive roles of the visual image has been social commentary. The visual arts posses a unique power to act as a social conscience, to illuminate problems within our social structure, to speak of responsibility...

POSTED // Sep 6,2007 - “Cleverly orchestrated” would be the exact words to describe The Belle of Amherst. From the play itself to all efforts that have gone into the current Salt Lake City production, everything feels orchestrated to achieve an assortment of ulterior...