My play Farewell To Eden, which has its closing performances this Friday, Saturday (matinee and evening, and Monday) at the Provo Theatre (105 East, 100 North in Provo), has been getting some good press. As some shameless self promotion and a plug for the closing performances, I wanted to share a couple of the positive reviews.
First, [...]

For those of you keeping track: this year I read sixty-eight books (if you don’t include the Calvin and Hobbes and Fox Trot compilations I skim while brushing my teeth and the countless picture books I’ve read my kiddos) and twenty-four of them were Mormon–not quite as many as last year and not enough of [...]

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I love the form; I’ve always have a, always had a love/hate relationship with comics: I love the form, but some of the content are not to my liking.
Yeah, I’ve read you’re not a big superhero fan.
No, I’m not. I’ve done a lot of superheroes, but basically I’d rather have more uh, less fantastic [...]

Hancock County, performed last week by Westminster College in Salt Lake City, was a riveting evening of theater. The thing is, though, that no matter who performs it, or how well, that level of interest is going to be the case, because of the inherent drama in the story and the skill of Slover’s writing. So [...]

The New Play Project is performing the world premiere of national award-winning playwright Mahonri Stewart’s “Swallow the Sun,” a new play based on the early life of C.S. Lewis, author of “The Chronicles of Narnia,” “The Screwtape Letters,” “Mere Mere Christianity” and “Till We Have Faces.”
Although Stewart said that this play holds special significance for [...]

Facial hair as a barometer for evil as typified in The Work and the Glory series.
This post will examine all three of The Work and the Glory films. For the sake of clarification, only the first, Russell Holt’s The Work and the Glory, will be referenced by that title. The two sequels, both [...]

The Deseret Book Conference Sale circular arrived earlier this week. I was intrigued by the description of a book by Elder Neal A. Maxwell. It’s called The Enoch Letters. It turns out that it is a reprint — the original work was published in 1975 and republished in 1981 as Of One Heart: The [...]

Last night we had a staged reading of my play “The Reluctant Convert” about C.S. Lewis’ conversion from atheism to Christianity. It was a very productive, edifying experience, having given me a lot of food for thought about where to take my next draft of the script.