BE HERE NOW, directed by Jason Bowcut
Playing May 2-17, 2025, Be Here Now is a Beautiful play about the bittersweet realities of life.
Pygmalion Productions
“Mountain Meadows” a new play by Deborah Threedy opens 2/17/23. There will be a talk back with the playwright after the 2/18/23 performance.
Pygmalion Theatre Company continues its 2022/23 season with the world premiere of “Mountain Meadows” by Utah playwright Debora Threedy, directed by Morag Shepherd, from Feb. 17 to March 4 at the Rose Wagner Center for Performing Arts located at 138 West Broadway in downtown Salt Lake City. The play braids together two stories, connected by and to the Mountain Meadows Massacre. Nita, granddaughter of a perpetrator, struggles to unearth the truth of the massacre in history. Miranda discovers she is a survivor and attempts to discover the truth of her family’s involvement. Together, their stories tally the cost of refusing to face the truth. The show features Stephanie Howell as Nita, David Hanson, Matthew Ivan Bennett, Carlie Young, Tiffani DiGregorio and Daisy Blake. Plays Feb. 17 to March 4, Thursday and Friday at 7:30 p.m., Saturday at 4 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. Masks required for the following performances: Feb. 23 and March 2, 2023. Otherwise, masks recommended, but not required.
City Weekly calls “Mother, Mother” a terrific exploration of a woman facing the impediments of her era.
Baum’s performance provides the biggest jolt of energy in Mother, Mother, spanning decades from precociously dramatic adolescent to melancholy senior. It’s a terrific exploration of a woman facing the impediments of her era, and becomes the fulcrum in a compelling look at mother-daughter relationships—specifically, the way even a woman who felt limited by the expectations of
ROE… a staged reading to benefit Planned Parenthood of Utah.
Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 case that legalized abortion, is still fiercely debated almost fifty years later. In this incisive play, acclaimed writer Lisa Loomer cuts through the headlines and rhetoric to reveal the divergent personal journeys of lawyer Sarah Weddington and plaintiff Norma McCorvey (“Jane Roe”) in the years following the fateful decision.