Local comedians talk about getting back on stage after the pandemic pause.
by Scott Renshaw
Some Utah institutions dip their toe into reopening during a challenging time.
by Scott Renshaw
Sara Zarr's Goodbye from Nowhere shares a story of big family gatherings into an isolated world.
by Scott Renshaw
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
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
Arts & Entertainment
The optimistic humanism of Star Trek has taken a bleaker 21st-century turn.
You know what future I want to see? The socialist paradise of Star Trek. A world where basic necessities are conjured from thin air, and money is a thing of the past.
By Bryan Young
March 4, 2020
Arts & Entertainment
Odyssey Dance Theatre's show doesn't go on without those behind the curtain.
With more than 25 years and 600 performances under its feet, Odyssey Dance Theatre delivers productions that appear to run almost automatically.
By Colette A. Finney
February 26, 2020
Arts & Entertainment
Comic-book creator Dave Chisholm brings his many artistic talents to bear on Canopus.
Creative ideas can come together in a wide variety of ways. For comic-book creator and musician Dave Chisholm, it can be a matter of finding the right fit between an idea and a genre.
By Scott Renshaw
February 19, 2020
Arts & Entertainment
Two new world-premiere productions put their female protagonists to the test.
Tragedy plus time equals comedy, an old proverb goes. After four years, playwright Jenny Kokai was ready to put that maxim to the test.
By Scott Renshaw
February 12, 2020
Arts & Entertainment
Two new exhibitions highlight the evolution of Japanese art and social structure.
While samurai's place at the top of society is historically accurate, a new exhibition at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts adds complexity to the layers of that society.
By Scott Renshaw
February 5, 2020
Arts & Entertainment
Better Days 2020 underlines the key role of Utah in voting rights for women.
She says that a friend mentioned to her that a significant anniversary was on the horizon in 2020: Not just the centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which gave American women the right to vote, but the 150th anniversary of Utahgranting them the vote—the first state to do so.
By Scott Renshaw
January 29, 2020
Arts & Entertainment
Community Writing Center offers resources to help every kind of writer improve.
Have standard New Year's resolutions already fallen by the wayside?
By Colette A. Finney
January 22, 2020
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