Play About a Play? Utah State Theatre Opens with Some Showbusiness

Play About a Play? Utah State Theatre Opens with Some Showbusiness

Utah State Theatre, the production program in the department of theatre at Utah State University, proves that all the world's a stage with its 2003–2004 season. That theme is the connecting thread for the season that opens with Anton in Show Business, a play by Jane Martin. The dramatic comedy runs Sept. 25-27, with both an evening and matinee performance on Saturday, Sept. 27, and Oct. 1-4 at the Caine Lyric Theatre, located at 28 West Center Street in downtown Logan. Curtain times for Anton are 7:30 p.m. for evening performances and 2 p.m. for the matinee.

The play, by Jane Martin, is a satire on the state of American regional theatre. It follows the travails of three actresses as they audition for and rehearse Anton Chekhov's The Three Sisters. The production is trouble-plagued from the start. The theatre's high-minded artistic director (degrees from Harvard and Yale) has nabbed a trendy Englishman to head the operation, but he is out of tricks when a well-known television star takes a liking to a pair of co-stars he has rudely dismissed. (read more)