News on your favorite shows, specials & more!

Crimes of the Heart at University of Utah

Dates: (9/23/2022 - 10/2/2022 )

Theatre:

University of Utah


201 Presidents' Cir
Salt Lake City,UT 84112

  1. View All Salt Lake City Shows
  2.  > 
  3. Crimes of the Heart


Winner of the 1981 Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play. The scene is Hazlehurst, Mississippi, where the three Magrath sisters have gathered to await news of the family patriarch, their grandfather, who is living out his last hours in the local hospital. Lenny, the oldest sister, is unmarried at thirty and facing diminishing marital prospects; Meg, the middle sister, who quickly outgrew Hazlehurst, is back after a failed singing career on the West Coast; while Babe, the youngest, is out on bail after having shot her husband in the stomach. Their troubles, grave and yet, somehow, hilarious, are highlighted by their priggish cousin, Chick, and by the awkward young lawyer who tries to keep Babe out of jail while helpless not to fall in love with her. In the end the play is the story of how its young characters escape the past to seize the future—but the telling is so true and touching and consistently hilarious that it will linger in the mind long after the curtain has descended.



Videos


A Case for the Existence of God in Salt Lake City A Case for the Existence of God
Meldrum Theatre at the Einar Nielsen Fieldhouse (3/28 - 4/12)
Christmas Carol Part 2 in Salt Lake City Christmas Carol Part 2
The Off Broadway Theatre (11/1 - 11/30)
Little Shop of Horrors in Salt Lake City Little Shop of Horrors
On Pitch Performing Arts (OPPA!) (10/24 - 11/15)
Souvenir in Salt Lake City Souvenir
Meldrum Theatre at the Einar Nielsen Fieldhouse (12/6 - 12/21)
A CHRISTMAS STORY: THE MUSICAL in Salt Lake City A CHRISTMAS STORY: THE MUSICAL
SCERA Center for the Arts (12/6 - 12/21)
LES MISERABLES SCHOOL EDITION in Salt Lake City LES MISERABLES SCHOOL EDITION
SCERA Center for the Arts (3/14 - 3/29)
THE WIZARD OF OZ in Salt Lake City THE WIZARD OF OZ
SCERA Center for the Arts (4/11 - 5/3)
VIEW SHOWS  ADD A SHOW  

Recommended For You