About the Show
To commemorate the 25th anniversary of September 11, the Utah Shakespeare Festival presents a special one-time staged reading of Anne Nelson’s The Guys, starring longtime Festival artists Melinda Pfundstein and Chris Mixon.
The Guys follows the true story of a journalist who, in the days following the attack on the World Trade Center, helps a New York fire chief write the eulogies for eight of his men who were killed. Presented as a staged reading in the intimate Anes Studio Theatre, akin to the Festival’s Words Cubed new play program, it is a small play about an enormous event whose power lies in its humanity.
Tickets are $11. All proceeds from the performance benefit 9/11 first responders and their families.
“It’s a beautiful and tender script—so simple, so intimate, and perfectly suited to the Anes Theatre. I’m incredibly excited about our cast: Melinda Pfundstein and Chris Mixon are both beloved members of the Utah Shakespeare family, and I know our audiences will be thrilled to see them together,” said Artistic Director John DiAntonio. “I hope you can join us for what will be a very special morning. The Guys is a small play about an enormous event, but its power lies in its humanity—in two people trying to find the words when words seem impossible. Twenty-five years after September 11, that feels like a story still worth telling.”
Tickets
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The GuysFriday, September 11, 2026, 9:30 am
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