PYGmalion Theatre Company set to premiere Morag Shepherd’s The Big Quiet, about two LDS sister missionaries

PYGmalion Theatre Company set to premiere Morag Shepherd’s The Big Quiet, about two LDS sister missionaries

ByLes RokaFeb 18, 2025

While there have been plenty of stories about male missionaries in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints rendered in film, television and theater, there has been a dearth in stories about Mormon sister missionaries. However, last year’s release of Heretic, a horror film about a pair of sister Mormon missionaries who hope to convert a reclusive man only to discover that he is pathological, has attracted a fair…

Leicester Productions’ delightful new short doc The Pho King chronicles story of SLC man’s efforts to connect community through a popular Vietnamese dish

Leicester Productions’ delightful new short doc The Pho King chronicles story of SLC man’s efforts to connect community through a popular Vietnamese dish

ByLes RokaFeb 15, 20256 min read

It is fitting that The Pho King, a new locally made short documentary film, will have its premiere…

Unconventional, bold, beautifully woven tale of legend and history: Plan-B Theatre/UtahPresents production of KILO-WAT

Unconventional, bold, beautifully woven tale of legend and history: Plan-B Theatre/UtahPresents production of KILO-WAT

ByLes RokaFeb 12, 20257 min read

In the first half of the ingeniously crafted play KILO-WAT by Aaron Asano Swenson, Ken, the Japanese-American podcaster,…

Like a perfectly fitted glass slipper: Cinderella showcases Ballet West at the heights of its artistic strengths

Like a perfectly fitted glass slipper: Cinderella showcases Ballet West at the heights of its artistic strengths

ByLes RokaFeb 11, 20258 min read

“Out of old tales, we must make new lives,” the great literary scholar Carolyn Heilbrun once wrote. For…

Sundance 2025: SALLY is splendid portrait about the public, private sides of the life of first American woman to go into space

Sundance 2025: SALLY is splendid portrait about the public, private sides of the life of first American woman to go into space

ByLes RokaFeb 5, 20257 min read

A splendid portrait of the first American woman and the youngest American astronaut to travel into space, SALLY,…