David G. Pace
DAVID G. PACE, a native Utahn, is a writer living in New York City. He worked as a theater critic in Salt Lake City for ten years.
City of Saints
Articles/Essays – Volume 51, No. 2
When Dennis Cormier arrived on the fifteenth floor of the Church Office Building in downtown Salt Lake City, his first appointment was already waiting. The visitor was fleshy, jowls and hips, about Dennis’ age, and…
Read moreMormon Angels in America: Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes
Articles/Essays – Volume 27, No. 4
For Mormons, the co-option of our most sacred story for the purposes of theater might at first seem blasphemous. In fact, Eugene England in his regular This People round-up of recent LDS-related books and plays…
Read moreAfter the (Second) Fall: A Personal Journey toward Ethnic Mormonism
Articles/Essays – Volume 31, No. 1
When my first marriage ended in divorce in 1991, what I describe as my current spiritual life seemed to begin. It is the first of three seminal moments in the past three years that I…
Read morebash | Neil LaBute, bash: latterday plays
Articles/Essays – Volume 32, No. 3
The last time we saw Mormons prominently featured on the New York stage was in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, where an orgasm-inducing female Angel Moroni crashed (literally) through an apartment ceiling and radicalized an…
Read moreGod’s Army: Wiggle Room for the Mormon Soul
Articles/Essays – Volume 35, No. 2
If you can get past the unfortunate title of Richard Dutcher’s God’s Army, you will find the first commercial film of what might be a new era in Mormon art. Dutcher’s creation likely spikes interest…
Read moreEndowing the Olympic Masses: Light of the World
Articles/Essays – Volume 36, No. 1
Refashioned beyond recognition, Salt Lake City hosted the Winter Games in February 2002. While the world partied Olympically—Budweisers in hand, whooping it up in chaotic street fetes—Latter-day Saints found haven in the LDS Conference Center.…
Read moreOur Big Fat Temple Weddings: Who’s In. Who’s Out. And How We Get Together
Articles/Essays – Volume 36, No. 3
The popular film My Big Fat Greek Wedding suggests that ethnic families will flood pell mell into any space provided by a family member who announces she or he is getting married. In the case…
Read moreAmerican Trinity
Articles/Essays – Volume 44, No. 2
The other two are more patient than I am. They bide their time. What’s worse, Jonas is always telling me that I am shirking my duty. I haven’t talked to him in over a century.…
Read moreThe Postum Table
Articles/Essays – Volume 47, No. 3
The family had been in the dream house about three months. It was October, and they were gathered for Family Night. A box of See’s chocolates, wrapped in glossy white paper, sat like the fruit…
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