UMOCA's director talks about the challenges of reopening, and engaging the community during a pandemic.
by Scott Renshaw
Choreographer Nicolo Fonte brings Stravinsky's revolutionary work to a new format.
by Scott Renshaw
A locked-down hotel provides fodder for the virtual theater of The Open Syrup
by Scott Renshaw
Arts & Entertainment
UMOCA's director talks about the challenges of reopening, and engaging the community during a pandemic.
Four months later, UMOCA's doors are finally reopening to the public July 15, at a time when there's still incredible uncertainty about the pandemic.
By Scott Renshaw
July 15, 2020
Arts & Entertainment
With theaters closed, SB Dance brings live performance right to your curbside.
Stephen Brown has always taken an unconventional approach to constructing live performances. But there's "unconventional," and then there's having to turn everything you know about presenting a show upside-down.
By Scott Renshaw
June 24, 2020
Arts & Entertainment
Stories to remind you that fantastical fictions can explore our real, messed-up world.
One of the places to find the most empathic stories, though, is the world of geekdom. For as long as the genres have existed, they have been "woke" in exploring complex themes through allegory.
By Bryan Young
June 17, 2020
Arts & Entertainment
Utah Symphony's pandemic-era world-premiere works offer composers opportunities and challenges.
Maestro Thierry Fischer and the Utah Symphony took one of the more counterintuitive approaches possible: What about soliciting and performing brand-new works for full orchestra?
By Scott Renshaw
June 10, 2020
Arts & Entertainment
Sonderimmersive turns Romeo & Juliet into live drive-in theater with Through Yonder Window.
For theater companies around the country and around the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has generated a need to think creatively about where and how it might be possible to produce live theater in this time, when most traditional theater spaces might not seem safe for potential attendees.
By Scott Renshaw
June 3, 2020
Arts & Entertainment
Local comedians talk about getting back on stage after the pandemic pause.
It feels like a hundred years ago, but local stand-up comedians remember it was only March when they were performing in front of large audiences, and able to find laughs in this strange new concept called coronavirus.
By Scott Renshaw
May 27, 2020
Arts & Entertainment
Some Utah institutions dip their toe into reopening during a challenging time.
For the many businesses and gathering places that were forced to close as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, the process of thinking about how they would re-open again began immediately.
By Scott Renshaw
May 20, 2020
Arts & Entertainment
Sara Zarr's Goodbye from Nowhere shares a story of big family gatherings into an isolated world.
There's a bit of an irony to releasing a novel centered around big, rambunctious family gatherings in a time of social distancing. Then again, there's virtually nothing about this time that feels normal, including for authors trying to get their books out into the world.
By Scott Renshaw
May 13, 2020
Arts & Entertainment
For Utah-based Disney vloggers, theme park closures force some adjustments
As much as the world has changed for everyone, you might think it would change less for someone whose livelihood involved creating content for a YouTube channel. But when your focus is Disney theme parks—as it is for Chris and Amanda Provost, who operate the Utah-based Provost Park Pass channel—a drastic change is required.
By Scott Renshaw
May 6, 2020
Arts & Entertainment
Mapping Literary Utah creates an online home for the state's rich writing tradition.
When she was an aspiring poet growing up in Seattle, Utah poet laureate Paisley Rekdal recalls feeling frustrated at the idea that the place she was from was not a place where writers came from—and particularly, writers who looked like her.
By Scott Renshaw
April 29, 2020
Arts & Entertainment
Support local artists and galleries through the online homes for their work.
While most Utah arts venues are closed to promote social distancing, visual artists themselves offer their work for sale online, either through their own websites or through the galleries that represent them.
By Scott Renshaw
April 22, 2020
Arts & Entertainment
A stalwart local art organization shifts its mission due to COVID-19.
While it might be easy to understand the financial impacts on a performing arts organization of lost ticket sales from cancelled events, the impact of COVID-19 on Art Access is more complex, in part a function of the specific timing of social distancing measures.
By Scott Renshaw
April 15, 2020
Arts & Entertainment
A trio of streaming playlists with the fun, hope and comfort we need while stuck at home.
These are, to put it mildly, strange times. We're all locked up in our homes, hoping to prevent the spread of a very serious virus that's wreaking havoc across the world.
By Bryan Young
April 8, 2020
Arts & Entertainment
Yes, sensational Netflix documentary series Tiger King is as wild as it sounds.
It's the other thing that everyone is talking about lately. Out of nowhere, I kept seeing memes about a gaudily dressed man who made some interesting choices with his hair.
By Nick Warren
April 1, 2020
Arts & Entertainment
Arts organizations face the fallout of COVID-19 cancelations and ongoing uncertainty.
Over the course of an unprecedented tumultuous week, leaders of local arts organizations dealt with the harsh realities of "what now" and "what next."
By Scott Renshaw
March 25, 2020
Arts & Entertainment
Elaine Jarvik's new play explores the complexity of progressive movements with different priorities.
On a Super Tuesday, Elaine Jarvik is talking about the challenge of progressive movements often butting up against one another over differing priorities. She just happens to be talking not about those of the moment, but issues that were causing friction more than 100 years ago.
By Scott Renshaw
March 11, 2020
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