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Rob Tennant
Rob Tennant is a Salt Lake City freelance writer.
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- Culture, Theater December 10, 2013
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Jingle Plays
Two theater companies present family-friendly holiday productions.
- In virtually every scene where Buddy the Elf (Quinn VanAntwerp) appears in Pioneer Theatre Company’s production of Elf: The Musical, he towers over the other cast members—literally
- Culture, Theater October 29, 2013
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Review: Pioneer Theatre Company's Other Desert Cities
- If Pioneer Theatre Company’s Other Desert Cities were one of your co-workers, it would be that guy down the hall who’s name is probably Jim, but you’re not sure enough to actually call him that out loud
- Culture, Theater September 24, 2013
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Rent @ Utah Repertory Theater
Review: Small-scale production muddles the modern classic
- Rent—based largely on Giacomo Puccini’s opera La Bohème, which goes to show that the trope of romanticized artistic poverty has been perpetuated by poor artists for centuries and they’re not about to stop—is a bona fide modern classic.
- Culture, Theater July 10, 2012
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Theater Review: Chicago
Singing/dancing the bee's knees, acting flat
- Chicago is a show for folks who like their social commentary and media criticism to come with lots of singing and dancing.
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Chapul Bars
An energy bar made of, yep, bugs
- Pat Crowley—founder and visionary of Chapul, a new company making energy bars in Salt Lake City—wants to feed you bugs.
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Alpha Dominche
SLC's Steampunk coffee machine
- I appreciate good coffee, but I’ll also drink swill. Thank goodness for Khristian Bombeck. He is the inventor of the Steampunk, a new commercial coffee-brewing apparatus being manufactured here in Salt Lake City
- Culture, Theater April 17, 2012
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WTC: Little Shop of Horrors
Comedic musical goes off without a hitch
- Sometimes a show is more than just good; it’s downright fun. Wasatch Theatre Company’s production of the classic treatise on botany, dentistry and the American Dream—Little Shop of Horrors—dares you not to leave humming and grinning.
- Culture, Theater April 17, 2012
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Plan-B Theatre: The Scarlet Letter
Breathing life into the classic text
- There are certain advantages to adapting a literary classic like The Scarlet Letter, playing now at Plan-B Theatre Company—but there’s a lot of pressure, too.
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Snider Bros. Meats
Local "euphemism-free" meat
- Set in the middle of a suburban strip mall at 6200 South and Highland Drive, Snider Bros. Meats isn’t exactly what comes to mind ...
- Culture, Theater February 28, 2012
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Pioneer Theatre Company: Emma
More like an outline true adaptation
- The problem with Pioneer Theatre Company’s production of Emma—adapted from the Jane Austen novel by Jon Jory—is not with the cast ...
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