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Salt Lake Tribune Review of HARBUR GATE
Powerful Salt Lake production of ‘Harbur Gate’ showcases Iraq veterans’ stories By Barbara M. Bannon Special to The Tribune February 15, 2017 The most profound and powerful thing about Utah playwright Kathleen Cahill's "Harbur Gate," making its world premiere at Salt Lake Acting Company, is how deceptively simple it…
Salt Lake Magazine HARBUR GATE Review
Review: Harbur Gate We’re pretty lucky to have local playwrights among us creating original works. Kathleen Cahill, one such human, is an award-winning writer and the author of Salt Lake Acting Company’s currently running production Harbur Gate. The play consists of three mini-plays that make up a loose Rashomon of…
City Weekly's Interview with HARBUR GATE Playwright, Director and Select Cast
Salt Lake Acting Company: Harbur Gate A chat with the playwright, director and select cast for SLAC's latest production. After an amazing first half to their 2016-2017 season with Bull Shark Attack, Winter, and Diary of a Worm, a Spider, and a Fly, Salt Lake Acting Company kicks off the…
Salt Lake Magazine HARBUR GATE Preview Article
Preview: ‘Harbur Gate’ at SLAC I’m looking forward to playwright Kathleen Cahill’s newest production at Salt Lake Acting Company. I first encountered Cahill’s work in the play The Persian Quarter, which was a taut psycho drama between captor and captive set during the 1979 Iranian Hostage Crisis (those were simpler…
Salt Lake Tribune Preview Article of HARBUR GATE
In Salt Lake world premiere, Kathleen Cahill’s ‘Harbur Gate’ gives a voice to veterans’ stories By barbara M. Bannon Special to The Tribune Utah playwright Kathleen Cahill is admittedly "eclectic" in her interests. So it's not surprising that the inspiration for her new play, "Harbur Gate," about to make…
Salt Lake Magazine Review of Winter
Winter at SLAC: If you see one play about Dementia and Dying this Year... by Jeremy Pugh, October 25, 2016 Salt Lake Magazine When the curtain dropped on Winter—an original play by Salt Lake Acting Company’s resident playwright, Julie Jensen—it seemed that myself and the rest of the house had…
In the Room with Julie Jensen
Very Old and Brand New E (Erika Ahlin): Tell me how your relationship with SLAC began. J (Julie Jensen): I was at a conference and I ran into Ed Gryska. He was from Salt Lake Acting Company and he said to me, “You haven’t sent us any work.” So I…
In the Room with Troy Deutsch
In the Room with Troy Deutsch Erika: You are a young, up-and-coming playwright. Tell us a little more about yourself. Troy: I am from a town of 4,000 people in Minnesota. I went to school at the University of Utah and was in their Actor Training Program. The director of…
Review: 'Winter poses timely questions about life and death in Knockout Salt Lake Premiere
By Barbara M. Bannon Special to The Tribune | First Published Oct 19 2016 04:03PM The essence of theater is collaboration. We've all heard that before, but occasionally a production exemplifies it so perfectly that you want to bottle it for drama students. Peggy Battin wrote a story; Anne Cullimore Decker…
New Utah play looks for dignity — and humor — in dying | Salt Lake Tribune
By ELLEN FAGG WEIST | The Salt Lake Tribune First Published Oct 07 2016 03:24PM • Last Updated Oct 07 2016 06:21 pm It's the fiction that makes nationally renowned Utah playwright Julie Jensen's new play, "Winter," so interesting. Of course, the script's drawn-from-life reality is fascinating, too. "Winter"…
Introducing Brynne Frauenhoffer
Salt Lake Acting Company is thrilled to announce the winner of the 2016 Davey Foundation Theatre Grant: Brynne Frauenhoffer and her play SYNCHRONICITY. The finalists were:CHILL by Eleanor BurgessSINNER-MAN by Liz MaestriPASSING TIME IN ANIMAL TOWN by Ryan Oliveira Brynne’s play was selected from 33 script submissions received from around…
