http://www.cityweekly.net/utah/articles.sec-8375-1-the-essentials.html By Scott Renshaw

Not many stand-up comedians can boast a 30-year-plus professional career before they’ve sniffed their 50th birthday ...]]> By Kelli Stitzer

In a town stuck in a 20-year drought, water is so scarce that private toilets are unthinkable, and folks have to pay a toll to pee. If these poor souls...]]> By Jacob Stringer

In this age of a highly politicized global culture, it seems suitable to explore the charged and intricate social spheres with...]]> By Rachel Piper

North Carolina author Sarah Dessen has been writing for teens since 1996, long before high-profile books like Harry Potter and The Hunger Games pushed...]]> By Brandon Burt

Sam Shepard’s 1980 play about the complicated relationship between two brothers doesn’t deconstruct their knotty family ties so...]]> By Geoff Griffin

Jazz was created in brothels and bars in New Orleans and perfected in raucous New York City clubs in the wee hours ...]]> By Brian Staker

Self-taught local artist Justin Carruth’s oil paintings (detail of “Premonition” is pictured) study film stills, frame by frame ...]]> By Austen Diamond

This challenge lies at the heart of the experimental Innovations, an evening of original works created by Ballet West dancers for Ballet West dancers...]]> By Jacob Stringer

This year’s spotlight bird at the 13th annual Great Salt Lake Bird Festival is not easy to spot in the state of Utah. One of the last migrating species to...]]> By Austen Diamond

In the finale, with the entire company singing, the grand message of Falstaff can be understood: Everything in the world is a jest. Falstaff, the portly monarch, has...]]> By Brandon Burt

Sam Shepard’s 1980 play about the complicated relationship between two brothers doesn’t deconstruct their knotty family ties so...]]> By Austen Diamond

An unlikely gaggle of wounded Allied soldiers have found themselves together in a clinic ward at World War II’s end in John Patrick’s 60-year-old play. The motley crew, from...]]> By Scott Renshaw

Devotees of creative anachronism—those who dress in period costume to celebrate the era of knights, damsels and faeries—get a bad rap. Sure, their passion may not be...]]> By PF Wilson

If comedian Ian Bagg looks like a hockey player, there’s a good reason: He grew up in British Columbia with aspirations of playing the sport professionally. However...]]> By Jacob Stringer

Other, perhaps more realistic people, choose to instead dress up in costume and ride around to various drinking holes in order to help local charities in the increasingly popular Tour de Brewtah...]]> By Jacob Stringer

Author and San Francisco Bay native Katie Arnold-Ratliff switched coasts to New York to help edit and regularly write for O, the magazine created by Chicago media mogul Oprah...]]> By Scott Renshaw

A tiny piece of film-history trivia—a day of location shooting in 1959 for Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho—provides the germ for a thrilling debut novel that’s about far more than trivia...]]> By Brian Staker

This Is Samoan Art sounds like it might present some kind of artistic travelogue, or fill in the blanks with an encyclopedic overview ...]]> By Austen Diamond

The Live Green SLC! Festival isn’t just for hippies, neo-hippies and eco-freaks. In its first year as sole organizer, ReDirect Guide is making the eighth annual festival local-centric...]]> By Rob Tennant

Plan-B’s SLAM is a great concept, now in its eighth year. Five playwrights meet 23 hours prior to curtain and receive a big envelope with a list of actors and a set of parameters. They write all...]]>