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Salt Lake Magazine's Review: SLAC’s Surely Goodness & Mercy
Review: SLAC’s Surely Goodness & Mercy Salt Lake Magazine | Jeremey Pugh | September 8, 2017 alt Lake Acting Company’s season opener is a tender, thoughtful slice of lunch lady land. We live in a noisy world. What with all the hurricanes and fires and Donald Trumps. And these days…
Salt Lake Acting Company’s season-opening production shatters stereotypes about black culture
Salt Lake Acting Company’s season-opening production shatters stereotypes about black culture By Barbara Bannon | Setpember 15, 2017 As I sat waiting for Salt Lake Acting Company’s production of “Surely Goodness and Mercy” to begin, I was struck by an irony. In the Upstairs Theatre, “Saturday’s Voyeur” was lambasting the…
SLAC’s “Surely Goodness and Mercy” is Surely More Than Merely Good
SLAC’s “Surely Goodness and Mercy” is Surely More Than Merely Good Front Row Reviewers | By Suzanna Whitman | September 7, 2017 Salt Lake Acting Company is known for its thought-provoking theatre, and their production of Chisa Hutchinson’s new play Surely Goodness and Mercy is no exception. The play…
Salt Lake Magazine Review: Saturday’s Voyeur 2017
Review: Saturday’s Voyeur 2017 By Jeremy Pugh | Salt Lake Magazine | July 5, 2017 Can you believe the Russians are the bad guys again? As a middle-of-the-pack Gen-Xer, I caught the last wave of anti-Russia pop-culture vilification at a young age, mainly through Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons featuring the…
Utah Theater Bloggers Review: Saturday's Voyeur 2017
Experience the balm of Gilead of SLAC’s SATURDAY’S VOYEUR By Elise Hanson | Utah Theater Bloggers | July 1, 2017 SALT LAKE CITY — It has been a rough year for Americans. No matter your political leanings, the impossibility of blocking the outcry of impassioned consternation from your universe is a…
Salt Lake Tribune Review: Saturday's Voyeur 2017
Review: Spying on the Russian connections in ‘Voyeur’ By Ellen Fagg Weist & Scott D. Pierce | Salt Lake Tribune | June 30, 2017 How do you satirize Utah's local culture under a Trump administration? The title of this year's edition of "Saturday's Voyeur" — the blunt-edged "The S--- Show"…
Salt Lake Tribune Preview Article for Saturday's Voyeur
Putin, Trump administration get ‘Voyeurized’ in Salt Lake Acting Company’s annual musical satire By Ellen Fagg Weist | Salt Lake Tribune | June 22, 2017 The plot of this year's "Saturday's Voyeur," Salt Lake Acting Company's annual irreverent musical satire, has been compromised by Russian connections, including a starring…
Utah Theatre Bloggers: HAND TO GOD Review
Give a hand to Salt Lake Acting Company's Hand to God by Andrea Fife | April 27,2017 Book-ended by monologues contemplating the nature, origin, and roles of basic Christian tenets of good, evil, the devil, and salvation, Hand to God tells the stories of a teenage boy Jason and his…
Introducing Rae Binstock
Salt Lake Acting Company is thrilled to announce the winner of the 2017 Davey Foundation Theatre Grant: Rae Binstock and her play A LAND OF NO MERCY. The finalists were:KINGS OF AMERICA by Sean Patrick NillTHE ROOM WHERE I WAS HELD by David Zax Rae’s play was selected from 30…
Broadway World: Hand to God Review
SLAC's Hand to God is Raucous, Irreligious, and It's a Must-See By Blair Howell The puppets in HAND TO GOD aren't Julie Taymor's puppets Salt Lake City theatergoers recently saw in the bus-and-truck production of THE LION KING.Salt Lake Acting Company primarily nurtures and produces works by new and emerging…
The Salt Lake Tribune: Hand to God Review
Salt Lake Acting Co.'s 'Hand to God' mixes bawdy humor with insights about human loss, longing By - Barbara M. Bannon Sometimes the way you do something is more important than what you do. Take Salt Lake Acting Company's regional premiere of Robert Askins' raucous, irreverent black comedy, "Hand to…
