Ellen Fagg Weist, a former arts and theater reporter, promotes Utah culture as the public information officer for the Utah Department of Cultural & Community Engagement. She is the editor of a collection of fiction,“The Way We Live: Stories by Utah Women.”
A scene: Two women walking through north Sugar House streets, pre-dawn, on cold winter mornings. Usual topics: the declining water levels of Great Salt Lake, what a lost flamingo and a seagull might have in common, the toxicity of lakebed dust, and how to write plays about all […]
Plan-B Theatre’s new play, “Just Add Water,” which opens this week in Salt Lake City (see here), is part of a dozen temporary installations by local, national, and international artists commissioned for Salt Lake City Arts Council’s Wake the Great Salt Lake initiative. The innovative public art project […]
In considering the stories collected in David G. Pace’s American Trinity: And Other Stories from the Mormon Corridor, I keep thinking of lineage. Not priesthood lineage but the literary kind. Mormon writers—excuse me, Latter-day Saint writers—have inherited the problem of genre writers through the ages. Each generation of […]
