Category Archives: On-stage

_The Book of Mormon: The Musical_ and Mormon Minstrelsy

Posted on March 15, 2011 by Mahonri Stewart

Last month, The Book of Mormon: The Musical premiered at the Eugene O’Neil Theater in New York, written by Trey Stone and Matt Parker (the creators of the popular and irreverent TV series South Park), along with their co-collaborator Robert … Continue reading →

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Butterflies and ponies

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Eric R Samuelsen

Since January, I’ve been spending my nights with my daughter Lexie and some actors in the Covey Center for the Arts, in Provo.  I’m directing my play The Plan, and we open next week.  (We run March 18-April 2, Thursdays … Continue reading →

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Working with my daughter

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Eric R Samuelsen

I’m going to embarrass my daughter.  She hates it when I write about her.  A boy might read it.  But I’m having tremendous fun right now, and want to share it. The Covey Center Blackbox is producing my play, The … Continue reading →

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On-Stage: January’s “Mormon Drama Spotlight”

Posted on January 29, 2011 by Mahonri Stewart

This is cross-posted at A Motley Vision. Every month I also plan on setting little spotlights on little news items and tidbits about Mormon Drama along with the monthly Scripting Mormon Drama spot.

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Scripting Mormon Drama: Series Introduction

Posted on January 29, 2011 by Mahonri Stewart

Due to a miscommunication, this was originally posted at A Motley Vision. Later posts in this series will be here, at Dawning of a Brighter Day. Not living in Utah anymore has its advantages and its drawbacks… for me one … Continue reading →

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Mormon LitCrit: Brother, can you paradigm?

Posted on September 3, 2010 by Eric R Samuelsen

Here’ s what happens a lot: I’ll be in a discussion of the Gospel and the Arts, or Literature, or Music or Theatre or whatever, and the same binary comes up.  There are two kinds of art: ‘worldly’ art and … Continue reading →

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On-Stage: Pageantry and Performance Art

Posted on July 20, 2010 by Sam Payne

My wife and I drove to Ogden on Saturday to be part of the audience for a huge show at Weber State University’s Wildcat Stadium. I had written a song for the event, and had shepherded the song through a … Continue reading →

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I Am Jane (with a little Levinas)

Posted on June 6, 2010 by Margaret Blair Young

I wrote the play I Am Jane a decade ago, and we had our premiere performance in an LDS chapel for the Genesis Group meeting. We turned the sacrament table into a deathbed and the choir seats into a pioneer camp. … Continue reading →

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On-Stage: Monsters and tricycle motors

Posted on May 5, 2010 by Eric R Samuelsen

A few years ago, when my oldest daughter was in fifth grade, she asked us one day if we wanted to see her school play.  She didn’t seem very excited about it; kept saying things like “you don’t have to … Continue reading →

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The Writer’s Desk: What if I Don’t Like it?

Posted on April 11, 2010 by J Scott Bronson

Last month my latest play, Brothers, ran for three weeks at the Brinton Black Box Theater in the Covey Center for the Arts in Provo, Utah. It went pretty well–only one sell-out crowd of twelve performances (which isn’t really as … Continue reading →

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