Selma ’65 commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Selma Voting March. Based on true events, this solo piece explores the stories of white civil rights activist Viola Liuzzo and FBI informant Tommy Rowe. Rowe was among the Ku Klux Klan members who overtook and gunned down Liuzzo’s Oldsmobile in March 1965. Liuzzo, who witnessed racial hatred firsthand
Standard Examiner, by Nancy Van Valkenburg A play that first came to life at Weber State University is back on a Utah stage with its original director and lead. “Mockingbird,” a 2014 Julie Jensen play about a girl, Caitlin, struggling with the loss of a loved one and with autism, opens April 16 at the
By Barbara M. Bannon Special to The Tribune They were two of the brightest and most articulate women of their era. And they hated each other intensely. Who knows when and how Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy became enemies? McCarthy claimed that the basis was political: Hellman continued to support Stalinist Russia long after the
