Verona meets corona in 'Through Yonder Window,' a Salt Lake City theater group's parking-garage 'Romeo & Juliet' staged for the COVID-19 era

One thing’s for sure about “Through Yonder Window,” the new play being staged by the experimental Salt Lake City troupe SONDERimmersive: You’ve never seen a version of “Romeo & Juliet” quite like it.

It’s staged in a parking garage, with the audience sitting in their cars, insulated against catching the coronavirus from the cast or other theatergoers. But the play’s themes of disease and despair — this is where Shakespeare coined the term “a plague o’ both your houses” came from — are made more manifest when the players wear face masks and practice social distancing.

The play runs this weekend and next — and may be held over — at The Gateway shopping center in downtown Salt Lake City. Here’s the preview I wrote about it for The Salt Lake Tribune.