Editor’s Note: Mark Alvarez, a Salt Lake City attorney, who frequently writes on immigration issues, is a guest correspondent for this piece which discusses the costs associated with the failure to move forward on comprehensive immigration reform. As always, it hits on the most acutely salient points in the current debate. Robert Altman’s “Nashville” begins [...]

Happily, even for audience members attending the world premiere Plan-B Theatre run of Aden Ross’ ‘Lady Macbeth’ who may only be incidentally familiar with the eight Shakespearean characters this incredibly clever playwright has lifted from the classics, they will readily appreciate the full vigor of truthful metaphors in this hilarious invention. Ross lifts the frustrating, [...]

LADY MACBETH Don’t use your fake words on me. I answer to a higher law. What do you call that? When you hear God whispering in your ear? FOOL Substance abuse. –Aden Ross, 2011 At about the same time, ‘Amerika,’ was given its world premiere by Plan-B Theatre in 2006, Aden Ross had already begun [...]