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Keolanani Kinghorn
Local news feed • Salt Lake City, Utah
Keolanani (Keola) Kinghorn is the editor, writer, and founder of Rhetorical Review. Originally from the Big Island of Hawaiʻi, she is a PhD student in Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Utah. Through reviews, interviews, spotlights, features, land accountability, and non-profit coverage, she holds space for what performance is doing — and who it's for — with a focus on BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and/or people of color) artists.
Published stories
- “It’s Physics, Not Physical”: The Semantics of Platonic Friendship in [SIC]
- The Fantasticks Review: Performing Illusion, Confronting Reality
- Love Is Seeing Clearly in the Dark: The Phantom of the Opera at Eccles Theater
- Review of Come From Away at Pioneer Theatre Company: Remembering Crisis Through Acts of Care
- Thin Air and Emotional Survival: The Central Metaphor of “Annapurna”
- Sweetie Pies Only Theatre Co. Debuts "The Aliens" at Picnic Cafe
- At the Kitchen Table: Dan Froot & Company’s Arms Around America and Theatre as an Ongoing Practice
- If You Know the Soundtrack: A Conversation with Dr. Kofi J. Adisa on Music, Community, and Memory
- Utah's Hyperscale Data Center and HB-76: A Conversation with Anna Graff
- Once on This Island at The Ruth: Storytelling as Survival Through Music and Memory
- Meanwhile Park and the Art of Gathering: A Conversation with Jeff Paris and Matthew Ivan Bennett
- Something Rotten! at Ziegfeld Theater: Broadway Love Letter, Shakespeare Roast, and Pure Theatrical Chaos