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Show The University of Utah Department of Theater is one of the first to be established in the United States. It offers a wide course of classes including theater history, acting, voice training, interpretation, diction, and all phases of production. For the theater major, the theater is a way of life. "Not a nine to five job, but something to live with every minute." The University Theater is a stepping stone, a place to gain experience, to learn about theater life. The stage is preferred over television or movie screen because of the initial and vi- LU Fall Heritage Season introduces PMT Company tal challenge it presents-no retake possibilities. Unfortuantely, the "American" theater is allowing the mass media to commercialize and reduce it to an inferior art form, but hopefully America can produce enough guttiness and integrity among its theater people to keep it from dying. The 1969-70 school year at Pioneer Memorial Theater staged five theater seasons. To please many theater tastes, the main stage season was 87 |