From its humble beginnings in a Unitarian Church in 1969, SLAC has gone on to become the region's premier theatre for contemporary plays. In 1978, SLAC moved to the Glass Factory Theatre, which it called home for five years before returning to a church. Today SLAC's home is the historic 19th Ward House of Worship, originally built in 1896 by early settlers with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in the Marmalade Hill District of Salt Lake City. The 14,000-square-foot facility, which SLAC leases from the City, contains rehearsal space, dressing rooms, offices, lounge and kitchen. Fully-renovated, it includes two flexible theatres: the 113-seat Chapel Theatre, and the 160-seat Upstairs Theatre, which converts into a 206-seat cabaret space for the theatre's annual summer parody, SLAC's Summer Show.
Since 1970, SLAC has produced and presented Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwrights, and has commissioned, developed and produced an impressive body of world premiere plays, many of which have gone on to further productions throughout the world. SLAC Founder Ed Gryska said of the theatre's beginnings, "We were throwing stuff out there that the audience had never heard of; they didn't know what it was, and we educated them. We did the traditional stuff, but we'd always try to do a new play, something very different to balance that out, and I think that got the audiences in. And the audiences grew. I think that SLAC was always growing and becoming more and more important to this community, and it still is."
A World Premiere by Troy Deutsch. The Great Salt Lake is disappearing—and so is this family’s sanity. This comedy follows the eccentric Sharp family as they reunite to sell their late father’s lakeside home. Chaos erupts as they’re forced to confront their legacy and the truth...
Terrific tunes, silly stories, goofy gifts, audience antics: it’s all in this brand-new musical party that sleighs!
What’s going on in the space just behind and above your eyes? The thin place, that fragile boundary between our world and the next.
Created fresh each year by Utahns, for Utahns — because no one roasts us quite like we do.
LES MISERABLES at the Tuacahn Amphitheatre is larger than life with heartstopping reveals, brilliant character development, and exquisite vocals.…
Pioneer Theatre Company’s JOHN PROCTOR IS THE VILLAIN is more than just a show – it’s a transcendent experience that makes you feel deeply and think heavily all while being immersed in a finely crafted piece of art.…
On Saturday, August 29, Broadway star Heather Headley, who originated the roles of Nala in THE LION KING and the title character in AIDA, made her much-anticipated Utah concert debut at the SCERA Shell Outdoor Theatre in Orem.…
The national tour of WATER FOR ELEPHANTS, currently playing at the Eccles Theater in Salt Lake City, is an awe-inducing ride.…
MORIARTY at Hale Centre Theatre is hilariously thrilling as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s band of characters set off to solve the latest case involving the titular villain.…
JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT on Hale Centre Theatre’s Centre Stage in Sandy is a dazzling display of color, character, music, and movement.…
THE LIGHTNING THIEF at The Empress Theatre is totally epic and highly entertaining. Featuring a mostly youth cast, this Percy Jackson musical is well suited to audiences of all ages. …
A FRENCH TOAST at Meanwhile Park is the best-kept secret of the summer with an authentic, gratifying, communal theatre-going experience.…
OUR TOWN on Hale Centre Theatre’s new Miller Family Beehive Stage has a gentle dignity that tugs at your attention and your heart strings, keeping you intensely interested in the everyday lives of ordinary people and immensely invested in their happiness.…
The national tour of Alicia Keys’ HELL’S KITCHEN has arrived at the Eccles Theater in Salt Lake City with swagger and soul. This show is unlikely to play in Utah again, so seize this chance to experience something different and meaningful.…
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The Summer Show experience you've known and loved for decades will have you laughing harder than ever! Pack up your favorite food and drinks and laugh at the quirky, peculiar, sometimes infuriating, always entertaining life and culture of the Beehive State, written every year by...
A chamber rock musical about a love triangle that goes wrong. Sexy with a sharp wit and the driving force of a noir thriller, Murder Ballad explores the complications of love, the compromises we make, and the betrayals that can ultimately undo us.
15-year-old Sunny wonders about the universe, God, and her own creation story. When a DNA test reveals a complicated truth, her journey gets... well... complicated.
Wilbur and all his fellow naked mole rats in The Tunnel have always been, well...naked. Wondering what other possibilities are out there, Wilbur discovers a love for clothing and style. When word of his new passion turns the Tunnel upside down, he proves to everyone that there's...
A coming of a certain age comedy about an unexpected, transformative friendship between two distinctly different women. Being bad never felt so good in this riveting one-act about second acts. “It’s a story about how we keep discovering who we are and what we need as we age and...
by Sarah RuhlOriginal Music by Todd AlmondApril 8 - May 10, 2020A dinner party gone wild. Two married couples invite a mysterious woman (who hunts her own meat) along with her two lovers to a New Years Eve party. From the adventurous and provocative Sarah Ruhl comes a comedy...
by Elaine Jarvik March 12 - March 22, 2020 A SLAC world premiere, by Elaine JarvikOn the morning of February 21, 1895, the day after the great Frederick Douglass died, Susan B. Anthony shows up on his widow's doorstep. She is there to grieve - but is she also feeling guilty?...
by Lucas Hnath February 5 - March 8, 2020 Nora Helmer leaving her husband at the end of Ibsens 1879 masterpiece was the door slam heard round the world. Fifteen years later, and theres a knock at that same door. Noras back. But why? And where has she been? Lucas Hnaths...
America's favorite feline makes his Utah debut at Salt Lake Acting Company! When Pete the Cat gets caught jamming after bedtime, the cat-catcher sends him to live with the Biddle family to learn his manners. There he meets young Jimmy Biddle, the most organized second grader on...
Salt Lake Acting Company is delighted to present the Utah premiere of HIR by Taylor Mac, a sensational dark comedy about a family in transition, playing February 7 – March 11, 2018. Somewhere in the suburbs, Isaac has returned from the wars to help take care of his ailing...
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Disney & Pixar's Finding Nemo: A 70-Minute Family Musical Tuacahn Center for the Arts (5/01-10/24) |
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Grease Tuacahn Center for the Arts (7/10-10/22) |
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John Proctor Is the Villain Pioneer Theatre Company (9/11-9/26) |
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Les Misérables Tuacahn Center for the Arts (5/15-10/23) |
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The Addams Family The Ruth (9/14-10/31) |
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The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee On Pitch Performing Arts (9/04-9/19) |
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Eureka Day Meldrum Theatre in the Einar Nielsen Field House (3/12-3/27) |
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The Man Who Came to Dinner Meldrum Theatre in the Einar Nielsen Field House (12/04-12/19) |
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A Sherlock Carol On Pitch Performing Arts (12/04-12/19) |
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Dear Evan Hansen CenterPoint Legacy Theatre (9/12-10/03) |
