THE STORY: Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., a renowned professor of English who has spent years studying and teaching the brilliant and difficult metaphysical sonnets of John Donne, has been diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. 

Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award, the Lucille Lortel Award, and the Oppenheimer Award

Margaret Edson's powerfully imagined Pulitzer Prize–winning play examines what makes life worth living through her exploration of one of existence's unifying experiences―mortality―while she also probes the vital importance of human relationships. What we as her audience take away from this remarkable drama is a keener sense that, while death is real and unavoidable, our lives are ours to cherish or throw away―a lesson that can be both uplifting and redemptive. As the playwright herself puts it, "The play is not about doctors or even about cancer. It's about kindness, but it shows arrogance. It's about compassion, but it shows insensitivity."

Liahona boasts a nationally award-winning theatre department. Liahona competes annually in the National High School Competition at the Utah Shakespeare Festival in Cedar City, Utah where they have placed first, second, and third multiple times. We compete in UHSAA (Utah High-School Activities Association) Drama where we are the defending Region and State Champions. 

Liahona’s Theatre Department performs multiple shows a year. Past productions include: Matilda, King Henry V, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Twelfth Night, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Disney’s The Little Mermaid Jr., Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Fools, Snoopy!!! The Musical, The Curious Savage, The Giver, the Utah County high school premier of Martyr’s Crossing, the Utah State premier of Disney’s The Lion King Jr., and the National High School premier of First Daughter Suite.