About the Theatre
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."
Upcoming Shows
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 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...
by Sydney Naegle - March 13, 2026
Review: THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME at Hale Centre Theatre
Mesmerizing and a true Top of the World experience....
by Tyler Hinton - February 17, 2026
The world premiere of new musical HALLMARKED on Hale Centre Theatre’s brand new Miller Family Beehive Stage strikes just the right balance for all potential audience members. If you are a rom-com skeptic, you’ll probably go in looking for a deconstruction of the genre’s tropes, and although yo...
by Sydney Naegle - February 15, 2026
Ballet West's PETER PAN hooks you from the very beginning. You'll never want to leave Neverland....
by Sydney Naegle - February 15, 2026
Fierce. Funny. Fabulous. It Only Takes a Moment to Fall in Love....
by Hayley Westwood - February 11, 2026
Clue Live on Stage! is a delightfully brisk whodunit that feels both comfortingly familiar and almost eerily timely—proof that in an era of hot takes and cold truths, nothing cuts through the noise quite like good old-fashioned farce....
by Sydney Naegle - February 08, 2026
PYGmalion’s Becky Nurse of Salem is a fiery exhibit of generational pain and how history still affects the present no matter how progressive things feel....
by Sydney Naegle - February 07, 2026
What did our critic think of SUNNY IN THE DARK at Salt Lake Acting Company?...
by Tyler Hinton - February 03, 2026
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7…. It will take about 10 seconds for you to fall in love with Pioneer Theatre Company’s New York-ready world premiere of new musical 10 BRAVE SECONDS. See it now so you don’t regret missing a virtually perfect show that by all rights deserves to be a massive hit....
by Tyler Hinton - January 30, 2026
The regional premiere of PETER PAN GOES WRONG on Hale Centre Theatre’s Jewel Box Stage is a fancifully funny worst-case scenario in which everything that possibly could go wrong does, taking the audience on an unforgettable ride....
by Tyler Hinton - January 21, 2026
A BEAUTIFUL NOISE: THE NEIL DIAMOND MUSICAL, currently playing at the Eccles Theater in Salt Lake City, is dually rousing and intimate....
Past Shows
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...
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...
by Sarah RuhlOriginal Music by Todd AlmondApril 8 - May 10, 2020A dinner party gone wild. Two married couples invite a mysterious woman (who hunts...
by Elaine Jarvik March 12 - March 22, 2020 A SLAC world premiere, by Elaine JarvikOn the morning of February 21, 1895, the day after...
by Lucas Hnath February 5 - March 8, 2020 Nora Helmer leaving her husband at the end of Ibsens 1879 masterpiece was the door slam...
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...
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,...
STAG’S LEAP by Sharon Olds at Salt Lake Acting Company A poetic journey, beginning at the end of a thirty-year marriage— While He Told Me,...
Give the gift of theatre to the whole family this holiday season! Step into the jury box and decide the fate of the Big Bad...
In collaboration with Stray Cat Theater of Arizona, Salt Lake Acting Company is proud to present the Co-World Premiere of MERCURY by Steve Yockey. Sunlight...
Due to popularity, we have extended through September 10th! Utah’s favorite summer celebration, SATURDAY’S VOYEUR 2017 by Allen Nevins and Nancy Borgenicht will close out...
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