Julie Jensen News

Repertory Dance Theatre's 'Ring Around the Rose' will welcome Pygmalion Productions to the stage on May 11, 2024, at 11:00 am. This Utah theatre staple will present a fun puppet-making workshop with professional actor, Tamara Howell.

PYGmalion Theatre Company presents 'Last Lists of My Mad Mother,' a poignant exploration of the complexities of the mother-daughter relationship amidst the challenges of aging and Alzheimer's disease. Don't miss this heartfelt play at the Rose Wagner Center for Performing Arts in Salt Lake City from Feb. 9 to Feb. 24.

The National Theatre Conference announces its 2023 award recipients, including Jacob G. Padrón as Person of the Year, Deaf West Theatre for Outstanding Theater, a.k. payne for Stavis Playwriting, Isabel Pask for The Paul Green, and Joshua Castille for Emerging Professional.

The American Association of Community Theatre (AACT) has announced AACTFest 2023, the National Community Theatre Festival, will be held in Louisville, Kentucky, June 12 – 17, 2023. 

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts virtually hosted more than 110 outstanding theater students from colleges and universities across the nation as part of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF).

Pygmalion Theatre Company will open its 2022/2023 season with the world premiere of “Mother, Mother: The Many Mothers of Maud' by Julie Jensen, directed by Fran Pruyn, from Nov. 4 to Nov. 19 at the Rose Wagner Center for Performing Arts located at 138 West Broadway in downtown Salt Lake City.

Siblings Skye and Callum love each other, hate each other, and need each other. Oh, and they can fly. A horror comedy that follows a bizarre, broken, and blisteringly brazen journey in reverse.

A NAGGING FEELING BEST NOT IGNORED began performances on July 6, and due to popular demand extended performances through September 7, 2022, featuring a post-show talkback at each performance.

The past two years have been nothing short of disorienting for everyone. With physical theaters shuttered many artists tried to make the most of “Zoom Theatre” but the electricity of live theatre proved elusive online.

These past months Plan-B has weighed the reality of Covid-19. they considered patron safety. And they realized that the best way to celebrate their 30th anniversary is to offer you the first-ever, audio-only, series in Utah history: a feast for the ears to safely stream at home or in the car.

Florida Rep has announced a whole slate of digital offerings as its Fall 2020 Virtual Season. The fall season includes the Stage@Home Virtual Talkback Series (through Oct. 30), the 2020 Virtual PlayLab Festival (Nov. 5-Dec. 11), and a streaming production of 'Clue' starring the theatre's ensemble of professional actors (Oct. 29-Nov. 1).

Florida Repertory Theatre's Education Department has announced in-person classes for September and October featuring limited class sizes and enhanced safety measures. In addition to the safety measures, the classes will be held outdoors in order to keep both the instructors and students safe and healthy.

Roland Tec has partnered with Bishop Arts Center in Dallas and their Executive Producing Director Teresa Coleman Wash and by late June the call was going out to screenwriters, playwrights and solo performers all across the country to write and submit a monologue for their Zoom festival. 

Florida Repertory Theatre is pleased to announce that one of its 2019-2020 Touring Theatre for Young Audiences productions, William Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night,' is now available for online streaming and on-demand in-home viewing. Adapted and directed by Bill Kincaid, the production played to middle and high school audiences for three months before being cut short by COVID-19 closures.

Given current events, Plan-B Theatre has shifted its typical November-April schedule forward to February-June.

Florida Repertory Theatre's Education Department is pleased to announce its 2020-2021 Season line-up for its Theatre Conservatory, Theatre for Young Audiences Touring Series, and its third offering for the 2021 Junior Theatre Festival in Atlanta.

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WomensWork Theatre Collaborative opens its Season of Madness on October 26 with LAST LISTS OF MY MAD MOTHER, by Julie Jensen, a poignant and poetic look at how a primary caregiver struggles to hold on to her humor and humanity as her mother's mind rapidly deteriorates, and as her sister phones in advice from afar.

WomensWork Theatre Collaborative will present a trio of plays about madness in 2019-2020, the Collaborative's first full season of programming.