Utah Premiere
https://pioneertheatre.org/season/2023-2024-season/natasha-pierre-great-comet/
Utah Premiere | Inaugural production in the Meldrum Theatre at the Einar Nielsen Fieldhousehe LehmanUtah Premiere | Inaugural production in the Meldrum Theatre at the Einar Nielsen Fieldhouse
Director Karen Azenberg
Dramaturg Alexandra Harbold
https://pioneertheatre.org/season/2023-2024-season/the-lehman-trilogy/
Photo credit: Todd Collins Photography
The tragicomic tale of two rhyming pirates scuttled on a desert island – sans captain, sans crew, lots of sand. Featuring human/treasure chest eroticism, spoon and flask fisticuffs, and palliative pirate drag. From A Footpath Theatre Company comes a new play hot off the poop decks of Brooklyn, where it premiered to some sold-out houses and was acclaimed by at least one critic. 'Finely rendered characterizations... stretches of real beauty.' (QOnStage.com)
April 13-15, 2023 | 7:30 PM
Black Box Theater at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center
Featuring an evening length work by Daniel Charon in collaboration with Alexandra Harbold
Regular tickets: $35
Senior tickets: $15 (must be purchased in person or over the phone with ID upon pick up)
Moving Parts Family and Sensory Friendly performance - April 15, 1-2 PM: $10
by Heidi Schreck
Directed by Karen Azenberg
Fifteen-year-old Heidi earned her college tuition by winning Constitutional debate competitions across the United States. In this hilarious, hopeful, and achingly human new play, she resurrects her teenage self in order to trace the profound relationship between four generations of women and the founding document that shaped their lives. Schreck’s timely and galvanizing play became a sensation off-Broadway before transferring to Broadway where it received two Tony Award nominations among countless other accolades. The New York Times hailed What the Constitution Means to Me as “not just the best play to open on Broadway so far this season, but also the most important.”
“Uproariously funny, wrenching moving, critically challenging & politically inspiring!”
—The New York Review of Books
“Endearingly funny & deeply affecting. It would be hard to identify a work for the theatre with its finger more on the pulse of America right now.”
—The Washington Post
“Joy comes from watching an imaginative a new kind of theatre emerge.”
—The New York Times
ASL-Interpreted Performance: Saturday, April 22 at 2 p.m.
Please contact the Box Office at 801-581-6961 for more information.
Inspired by the real history of female boxing in Victorian London, THE SWEET SCIENCE OF BRUISING follows four very different women in their bid to become Lady Boxing Champion of the World. As they spar and train under the tutelage of an eccentric trainer/promoter, all four women find an unexpected sense of freedom and solidarity in the "sweet science."
Although the stakes for victory soon reach life-changing heights, a different fight awaits each of them in the world outside the ring.
And for women in 19th century England, life rarely plays by Queensbury rules.
To Saints and Stars is a full-length play about the intersection between science and faith. It follows the lifelong friendship of Sofía, a NASA astronaut, and Zoe, the wife of a Greek Orthodox priest. Sofia and Zoe have been friends since they were children and not a day has passed where they haven't seen or spoken to each other. Their lives and friendship are changed forever when Zoe becomes pregnant with her first child and Sofía is chosen for the first manned Mission to Mars. As the day of Sofia’s departure to Mars and Zoe’s due date approaches, their relationship becomes more strained as each woman is forced to re-evaluate what they each have prioritized in their own life and the indelible impact that they have made on each other.
A New Work Project: LIMINALby Troy Deutsch
Stage Play by Troy Deutsch, Based on an Original Story by Also Sisters
A cosmic event leads to a group of strangers being trapped together in a sealed room.
Created in collaboration with Playwright Brandan Ngo, Co-Directors Alexandra Harbold and Robert Scott Smith, Filmmakers Sonia and Miriam Albert-Sobrino and the LIMINAL Company
Studio 115 • February 18 – 27, 2022*
A co-production of University of Utah Department of Theatre and Flying Bobcat Theatrical Laboratory
Liminal is the stage component of a partnership between the Department of Theatre, Flying Bobcat Theatrical Laboratory, and Also Sisters. The stage play was written by Troy Deutsch, based on an original idea by Also Sisters—internationally-recognized filmmakers, multimedia storytellers, and Assistant Professors in the Film and Media Arts—and developed with the assistance of local playwright Brandan Ngo and Plan B Theatre’s Theatre Artists of Color Writing Workshop. Liminal's co-directors, Robert Scott Smith and Alexandra Harbold, are also the co-founders of Flying Bobcat Theatrical Laboratory. An upcoming film by Also Sisters, currently in pre-production, is another component of this collaboration. Although the stage play and the film are standalone works, they will also function as companion pieces as this project continues to grow and develop. https://theatre.utah.edu/liminal
Storm Still—a spirited, rollicking riff on Shakespeare—brings the Bard to the backyard, where three sisters have reunited to sort out the mess their father left behind. As they navigate through paperwork and piles of trash and treasure, they entertain themselves by acting out a fast and loose version of KING LEAR. When the line between fact and fiction begins to blur, their old childhood pastime takes on new meaning. All three must reckon with their grief, their resentment, and the roles they play—willingly or not.
Wild, wooly, and utterly unique, STORM STILL is a heartfelt, slapstick, tragicomedy, featuring an exceptional ensemble of three remarkable actors accompanied by a live band.
The Fairy Story Society and Flying Bobcat Theatrical Laboratory present RONALD AND EDITH at the Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival 2021
By Connor Johnson
Featuring Jessica Graham and Connor Nelis Johnson
Directed by Alexandra Harbold
Friday, July 30 - 7:30 PM
Saturday, July 31 - 7:30 PM
Sunday, August 1 - 7:30 PM
Friday, August 6 - 7:30 PM
Saturday August 7 - 7:30 PM
Sunday, August 8 - 7:30 PM
Performances are free and outdoors, recommended donation is $5.
In 1917, in Roos, Yorkshire, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien watched his wife, Edith, dance in a glade. The sight inspired Tolkien, barely returned from World War I, to write his cornerstone story Beren and Luthien. Ronald and Edith tells a (slightly) altered version of the facts of that fateful day. Join Tolkien and his wife, Edith, as they navigate war and love, elves and demons through storytelling.
Photo by Shawn Francis Saunders
The Night Witches by Rachel Bublitz
Director Alexandra Harbold
https://theatre.utah.edu/this-season/2020-2021-season/the-night-witches
PERFORMANCE TIMES
Oct 23, 24, 29, 30 and Nov 1, 2020 | 7:30pm
Oct 25, 31, and Nov 1, 2020 | 2:00pm
VENUE
Virtual Theatre/Live-Stream
PRODUCTION NOTES
Please join us for a talkback with members of the cast and production team immediately following the performance on Friday, October 30.
Company Sam Nakken, Lina Boyer, Keira Stogin, Katie Calderone, Alexis Pullen, McKinley Barr, Grace Cawley, Shelice Warr, Talia Heiss, Jessica Graham, Francesca Hsieh, Ella Murphy, Taryn McClure, Lauren Neser, Victoria Arlofski
Assistant Director Victoria B Wolfe
Stage Manager Max Erickson, 1st ASM Bryn Swain, 2nd ASM Elizabeth Wiand, 3rd ASM Kalista Vordos
Media Design | Gavin Yehle
Costume Design | Mae Hinton-Godfrey
Original Music & Sound Design | Katelyn Limber
Props design | Arika Schockmel
Lighting Design | Rachael Maria-Lynn Harned
Scenic Design | Ariana Hatch and Abish Noble
Dramaturg Francesca Hsieh
Production Manager Laney Marsella
Pinnacle Acting Company Presents At the Bottom by Christopher Madsen, adapted from The Lower Depths by Maxim Gorky.
Company
Sydney Shoell, Roger Dunbar, Emily Nash, Holly Fowers, Erica Carvalho, Carlos Nobleza Posas, Varlo Davenport, David Hanson, Call Vande Veegaete, Michelle Lynn Thompson, Fina Posselli
Creative Team
Set Design Katherine Jelte
Costume Design Victoria Bird
Sound Design Sam Allen
Lighting Design and Stage Management Dylan McKernan
Director Alexandra Harbold
The Gateway, 31 S Rio Grande St, Salt Lake City, UT 84101
Feb 27-Mar 8, 2020, 7:30 PM, 2:00 PM matinees on March 1st and 8th.
Tickets: $12-18
Contact: pinnacleactingcompany@gmail.com
www.pinnacleactingcompany.org/
The Trojan War is over, but Odysseus and his men have not returned. Back home, his wife Penelope, plagued by suitors, promises to remarry as soon as she has finished her father-in-law’s shroud—which she unravels every night. Meanwhile, Odysseus is stranded on islands, caught in storms, trapped by a Cyclops and a sorceress, and impeded by other monsters and gods. Will he ever make it home to his wife and fatherless son?
This adaptation by Mary Zimmerman (Metamorphosis, Guys and Dolls, The White Snake) weaves her own spell on Homer’s classic tale of adventure, trials and steadfast love.
CREDITS
Playwright: Homer
Adapted and originally directed by Mary Zimmerman
Adapted from the translation of “The Odyssey” by Robert Fitzgerald
DIRECTOR Alexandra Harbold
PERFORMANCE TIMES
Nov 8, 9, 13-15, and 17 2019 | 7:30pm
Nov 9, 10 and 17, 2019 | 2:00pm
ASL INTERPRETER11/09/2019 @ 2pm
DEATH OF A DRIVER by Will Snider
September 11 - October 20, 2019
When an American engineer moves to Kenya to build a road that will shape the country’s future, her charismatic African driver becomes her first employee and trusted friend. After a dispute over a local election lands him in jail, she questions the integrity of their alliance. DEATH OF A DRIVER is a sharp political drama about the complexities of “doing good” abroad.
https://www.saltlakeactingcompany.org/this-season/item/1467-death-of-a-driver
The Rivals
By Richard Brinley Sheridan
Directed by Alexandra Harbold
April 5-14, 2019
Babcock Theatre
The Rivals is a tightly woven farce of aristocratic and bourgeois love rivalry in the city of Bath. Sheridan’s comic masterpiece spins its tale around two couples who are thwarted on their way to matrimony. Featuring some of theatre’s great comic characters, the windbag Sir Anthony Absolute and the foolish Mrs. Malaprop–The Rivals is an uproariously funny feast that satisfies many a lusty appetite all while poking good fun at our superficial, narcissistic, preening times.
Sweat By Lynn Nottage
Director Mary B. Robinson
Is the “American Dream” still alive? And if so, who gets to pursue it?
In a small manufacturing town in Pennsylvania, the lives of nine people—friends, co-workers, mothers and sons, former spouses and lovers—intersect as they try to hold onto, or reach for, the American Dream in the face of the increasingly precarious and divisive economic conditions of America at the dawn of the new millennium.
https://www.pioneertheatre.org/season/2018-2019-season/sweat/
Moving Parts Family Series - February 2, 2019 1:00 pm
JQ Lawson Capitol Theatre
Tickets: $35 ($40 day of)
Purchase Tickets: ArtTix.org
Moving Parts Family Series Tickets: ArtTix.org
‘the live creature and ethereal things’ is a journey of the imagination for all ages. This dance performance is inspired by the mission of the Red Fred Project, founded by Dallas Graham, which gives voice to young creatives living in extraordinary circumstances. This magical adventure transports you past the threshold of the ordinary into a world of fantastical possibilities and asks, “if you could tell a story and share it with the entire world, what story would you tell?”
Guest performer Robert Scott Smith joins the Company on this curious, shapeshifting, and theatrical quest. Story telling in both English and Spanish, ‘the live creature and ethereal things’ explores how all of our voices and stories matter, and how our intimate social connections weave the pattern of our lives and happiness. Choreography by Artistic Director Daniel Charon, storyline in collaboration with Alexandra Harbold and Robert Scott Smith of Flying Bobcat Theatrical Laboratory, and original score created by John Paul Hayward, lyrics by Troy Deutsch, and costume design by Jared Gold.
additional support provided by Zions Bank
music commissioned by the Charles and Joan Gross Family Foundation
https://ririewoodbury.com/performances/2018-2019-season/the-live-creature-and-ethereal-things
https://www.theutahreview.com/ririe-woodbury-dance-companys-the-live-creature-and-ethereal-things-concert-is-rarefied-collaboration-of-joy-with-red-fred-project-flying-bobcat-theatrical-laboratory/
DONNA
by Jenifer Nii
read by Colleen Baum, Dee-Dee Darby-Duffin,
April Fossen, Yolanda Stange
directed by Alexandra Harbold
Wednesday, October 24, 7pm
Click here for free-but-required tickets
A re-imagining of DON QUIXOTE: modern-day women find and face their own windmills – which, it turns out, warrant more than just tilting.
From the author of WALLACE (co-written with Debora Threedy, 2010), THE SCARLET LETTER (2012), SUFFRAGE (2013), RUFF! (2015), KINGDOM OF HEAVEN (2016) and THE WEIRD PLAY (2018).
THE WOLVES | Salt Lake Acting Company
by Sarah DeLappe
October 10 – November 11, 2018
Director: Alexandra Harbold
These warriors are ready to take on any comer. Their minds move at warp speed, their emotions jostle for position, their bodies are fine-tuned, and their hormones are raging. It’s war out there on the girls’ soccer field. Get ready for The Wolves.
Utah Theatre Bloggers Association | SLAC SCORES A GOAL WITH THE WOLVES | Megan Crivello . 10/13/2018.http://utahtheatrebloggers.com/28203/slac-scores-a...
Gephardt Daily | Review: ‘The Wolves’ scores at Salt Lake Acting Company | Daisy Blake. 10/17/2018. https://gephardtdaily.com/local/slac/
OSLO by J.T. Rogers | Pioneer Theatre Company | Director Karen Azenberg
September 14 TO September 29, 2018
Sometimes the greatest act of heroism, in the face of a century of war and bloodshed, is the willingness to sit in a room and talk with your enemy.
J.T. Rogers turns the act of diplomacy into a thrilling “how-dunit” in this riveting story of a Norwegian academic who secretly brings together sworn enemies, representatives of the State of Israel and the Palestinians, to broker the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords.
Pinnacle Acting Company presents MACBETH
June 14-16, 22-23, 29-30 at 7:30PM
2:00PM matinee on June 30
Courage Theatre, Westminster College
http://www.pinnacleactingcompany.org/
https://www.facebook.com/events/248974135841843/
COMPANY
Anne Louise Brings, Holly Fowers, Suni Gigliotti,Sean Hunter, Jared Larkin, Ali Lente, Melanie Nelson, Joseph Kyle Rogan, Viviane Turman, Cooper Rushton
CREATIVE TEAM
Andrea Benson Davenport | Costume Design
Sam Allen | Sound Design
Spencer Stringham Brown | Lighting Design
Roya Burton | Set and Props Design
Roger Dunbar | Fight Choreography
Joseph Kyle Rogan | Fight Captain and Additional Choreography
Charisse Baxter | Dramaturg
Victoria Dylan Ray | Stage Manager
Madeleine Gail Rex | Assistant Director (and godsend)
Alexandra Harbold | Director
Profound thanks to Jessica Rubin, Robert Scott Smith, Varlo Davenport, the Rushton family, Erica Alexandra Carvalho, Trevor Leatham
Photographer: Gavan Nelson
Upcoming: http://www.pinnacleactingcompany.org/
a world premiere by Austin Archer | April 5-15, 2018
How will you die?
Will you see it coming?
What if you’re given a second chance?
JUMP explores the impact of survival on those we love.
Featuring Teri Cowan, Nicki Nixon, Matthew Sincell and Darryl Stamp.
Designed by La Beene (Costumes), Cheryl Cluff (Sound), Pilar Davis (Lighting), Cara Pomeroy (Set) assisted by Iris Salazar, Arika Schockmel (Props). Stage managed by Jennifer Freed.
Co-directed by Alexandra Harbold and Robert Scott Smith.
A Plan-B Theatre co-production with Flying Bobcat Theatrical Laboratory in partnership with The David Ross Fetzer Foundation for Emerging Artists.
Directed by Robin Wilks-Dunn | Company Gretchen Case, Nick Cheek-O'Donnell, Mark Fossen, Alexandra Harbold
Feb 1 @ 7:30 pm
Feb 2 @ 7:30 pm
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE DIVISION OF MEDICAL ETHICS AND HUMANITIES AND THE DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE
Written by Ireland’s master storyteller Brian Friel, and inspired in part by researcher Oliver Sacks’ essay “To See and Not See,” Molly Sweeney tells the story of a woman who was blind since childhood. Prompted by the “medical miracle” hopes of both her husband and her surgeon, Molly agrees to a procedure to restore her sight. What follows, in this staged reading featuring U of U Theatre faculty, is a riveting drama about the consequences of pursuing a “cure” at any cost.
Multi-show packages available for 17-18 UtahPresents season - to purchase, click on Buy Tickets and then select either 3 or 5 show package at the top of the performance list. | Price: $10
