🎭 Salt Lake Valley Theatre — Upcoming Plays & Musicals
Plays and musicals from Sandy to downtown Salt Lake and Magna — Hale Centre Theatre, Pioneer Theatre Company, Salt Lake Acting Company and the valley's community stages. Listed by theatre, each with its season in date order. 🎄 marks holiday shows.
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Hale Centre Theatre — Sandy
Our Town
Description: Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning portrait of Grover's Corners, New Hampshire. Guided by the Stage Manager, the play moves through ordinary mornings, a courtship and a wedding, and finally the hillside cemetery — arguing that the smallest daily things are the ones worth noticing while there's still time.
Dates: July 6–October 19, 2026
Venue / Address: Hale Centre Theatre • 9900 S Monroe St., Sandy, UT 84070
Tickets: Buy tickets at hct.org →
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Description: Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's exuberant retelling of the biblical Joseph — the dreamer, the jealous brothers, the coat of many colors, and a long road from a pit in Canaan to the right hand of Pharaoh. The score careens through calypso, country, and full Elvis, and the whole thing runs about as family-friendly as musical theatre gets.
Dates: August 3–October 24, 2026
Venue / Address: Hale Centre Theatre • 9900 S Monroe St., Sandy, UT 84070
Tickets: Buy tickets at hct.org →
Ken Ludwig's Moriarty
Description: A new Sherlock Holmes thriller from Ken Ludwig, the comic playwright behind Lend Me a Tenor and Baskerville. Holmes and Watson square off against the criminal mastermind who has haunted the detective's career, in a fast-moving mystery of disguises, double-crosses, and a small cast playing a great many people.
Dates: August 17–November 14, 2026
Venue / Address: Hale Centre Theatre • 9900 S Monroe St., Sandy, UT 84070
Tickets: Buy tickets at hct.org →
Anastasia
Description: The Broadway musical about a young woman in 1920s Paris who may be the lost Romanov grand duchess.
Dates: November 16, 2026–January 18, 2027
Venue / Address: Hale Centre Theatre • 9900 S Monroe St., Sandy, UT 84070
Tickets: Buy tickets at hct.org →
🎄 A Christmas Carol
Description: Hale's long-running holiday tradition returns to the intimate Jewel Box stage. For many Salt Lake Valley families it's the official start of the season.
Dates: November 27–December 26, 2026
Venue / Address: Sorenson Legacy Jewel Box Stage, Hale Centre Theatre • 9900 S Monroe St., Sandy, UT 84070
Tickets: Buy tickets at hct.org →
The Heart of Rock and Roll
Description: A feel-good jukebox musical built on the hits of Huey Lewis and the News, about an ambitious young salesman torn between his career and the rock-and-roll dreams he set aside.
Dates: December 14, 2026–April 17, 2027
Venue / Address: Hale Centre Theatre • 9900 S Monroe St., Sandy, UT 84070
Tickets: Buy tickets at hct.org →
Arsenic and Old Lace
Description: Joseph Kesselring's classic dark comedy: a drama critic discovers his sweet, charitable aunts have been poisoning lonely old gentlemen with elderberry wine.
Dates: January 11–April 10, 2027
Venue / Address: Hale Centre Theatre • 9900 S Monroe St., Sandy, UT 84070
Tickets: Buy tickets at hct.org →
The Lord of the Rings
Description: The stage musical adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's epic, following Frodo and the Fellowship on the quest to destroy the One Ring. The headliner of Hale's 2027 season.
Dates: February 15–April 17, 2027
Venue / Address: Hale Centre Theatre • 9900 S Monroe St., Sandy, UT 84070
Tickets: Buy tickets at hct.org →
Come From Away
Description: The Tony-winning musical about the small Newfoundland town that took in 7,000 stranded air travelers after the 9/11 attacks.
Dates: April 26–August 7, 2027
Venue / Address: Hale Centre Theatre • 9900 S Monroe St., Sandy, UT 84070
Tickets: Buy tickets at hct.org →
West Side Story
Description: Bernstein and Sondheim's Romeo-and-Juliet story of rival gangs on New York's Upper West Side, with "Tonight," "Maria" and "America."
Dates: May 10–July 17, 2027
Venue / Address: Hale Centre Theatre • 9900 S Monroe St., Sandy, UT 84070
Tickets: Buy tickets at hct.org →
Pioneer Theatre Company — University of Utah
Little Shop of Horrors
Description: The deliciously dark sci-fi rock musical by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman. A meek floral-shop assistant discovers a strange and exotic plant with an appetite that could make him famous — if he can keep feeding it. Featuring the doo-wop classics "Skid Row," "Suddenly Seymour," and a man-eating plant named Audrey II.
Dates: October 23–November 7, 2026
Venue / Address: Simmons Pioneer Memorial Theatre, University of Utah • 300 S 1400 E, Salt Lake City, UT 84112
Tickets: Buy tickets at pioneertheatre.org →
🎄 The Man Who Came to Dinner
Description: A holiday-season classic from George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. When an acerbic celebrity critic slips on the ice outside a Midwestern home and is forced to recuperate inside, he turns the household upside down in this fast, witty, screwball comedy.
Dates: December 4–19, 2026
Venue / Address: Meldrum Theatre, University of Utah • 375 S 1400 E, Salt Lake City, UT 84112
Tickets: Buy tickets at pioneertheatre.org →
Mean Girls
Description: The Tony-nominated musical comedy based on the hit film. New student Cady Heron learns the brutal social hierarchy of high school the hard way when she falls in with the Plastics. Sharp, hilarious, and packed with songs from an all-star creative team.
Dates: January 29–February 13, 2027
Venue / Address: Simmons Pioneer Memorial Theatre, University of Utah • 300 S 1400 E, Salt Lake City, UT 84112
Tickets: Buy tickets at pioneertheatre.org →
Eureka Day
Description: A whip-smart, timely comedy set at a progressive California private school where a community health scare forces a group of well-meaning parents to confront just how far "consensus" can stretch. Winner of the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play.
Dates: March 12–27, 2027
Venue / Address: Meldrum Theatre, University of Utah • 375 S 1400 E, Salt Lake City, UT 84112
Tickets: Buy tickets at pioneertheatre.org →
Season Finale — Title to Be Announced
Description: Pioneer Theatre Company closes its 65th season with a musical it calls "a truly spectacular way to close out this milestone year." Title to be announced.
Dates: April 30–May 15, 2027
Venue / Address: Simmons Pioneer Memorial Theatre, University of Utah • 300 S 1400 E, Salt Lake City, UT 84112
Tickets: Buy tickets at pioneertheatre.org →
Salt Lake Acting Company — Downtown SLC
Very Like a Whale
Description: A world premiere from Troy Deutsch, created with Flying Bobcat Theatrical Laboratory, opening SLAC's 55th season. The Great Salt Lake is disappearing — and so is the Sharp family's grip on itself. When the eccentric siblings reunite at their late father's lakeside home, they're forced to reckon with his legacy and with whatever is surfacing in the drying salt outside the window.
Dates: September 30–October 25, 2026
Venue / Address: Salt Lake Acting Company • 168 W 500 North, SLC, UT 84103
Tickets: Buy tickets at saltlakeactingcompany.org →
🎄 The Pigeon Gets a Big Time Holiday Extravaganza!
Description: Mo Willems' Pigeon, Elephant & Piggie and friends throw a brand-new holiday musical party. SLAC's professional show for young audiences, built for little kids and the grown-ups who read them these books.
Dates: December 4–29, 2026
Venue / Address: Salt Lake Acting Company • 168 W 500 North, SLC, UT 84103
Tickets: Buy tickets at saltlakeactingcompany.org →
The Thin Place
Description: The Utah premiere of Lucas Hnath's quietly unnerving play, which unfolds like a séance and plays with what the audience thinks it hears.
Dates: February 3–28, 2027
Venue / Address: Salt Lake Acting Company • 168 W 500 North, SLC, UT 84103
Tickets: Buy tickets at saltlakeactingcompany.org →
Lizzie
Description: An all-woman rock musical that retells the 1892 Lizzie Borden murders from Lizzie's side. Utah premiere.
Dates: April 7–May 2, 2027
Venue / Address: Salt Lake Acting Company • 168 W 500 North, SLC, UT 84103
Tickets: Buy tickets at saltlakeactingcompany.org →
SLAC's Summer Show 2027
Description: SLAC's annual homegrown musical parody of Utah life, politics and headlines. Rewritten every year.
Dates: June 23–August 15, 2027
Venue / Address: Salt Lake Acting Company • 168 W 500 North, SLC, UT 84103
Plan-B Theatre — Rose Wagner
Facing East
Description: A 20th-anniversary revival of Carol Lynn Pearson's play about a Latter-day Saint couple grieving their son, staged at the theatre that premiered it in 2006.
Dates: October 22–November 8, 2026
Venue / Address: Studio Theatre, Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center • 138 W 300 S, Salt Lake City, UT 84101
Tickets: Buy tickets at planbtheatre.org →
🎄 Radio Hour Episode 18: The Land of Oz (with RadioWest)
Description: A world-premiere adaptation of L. Frank Baum, performed as a live radio drama hosted by RadioWest's Doug Fabrizio. The audience plays the "live studio audience." One hour, family friendly.
Dates: December 16, 2026 • 11:00 AM & 7:00 PM
Venue / Address: Jeanné Wagner Theatre, Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center • 138 W 300 S, Salt Lake City, UT 84101
Tickets: Buy tickets at planbtheatre.org →
What the Phở?
Description: A world-premiere play by Utah playwright Wendy Dang.
Dates: March 4–21, 2027
Venue / Address: Studio Theatre, Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center • 138 W 300 S, Salt Lake City, UT 84101
Tickets: Buy tickets at planbtheatre.org →
University of Utah Theatre
Carrie
Description: The musical adaptation of Stephen King's first novel, staged by U of U theatre students just in time for Halloween.
Dates: October 2–11, 2026
Venue / Address: Meldrum Theatre, University of Utah • 375 S 1400 E, Salt Lake City, UT 84112
Tickets: Buy tickets at theatre.utah.edu →
Hamlet
Description: Shakespeare's tragedy of a grieving prince, a haunted castle and a revenge that consumes everyone around it.
Dates: November 13–22, 2026
Venue / Address: Babcock Theatre, University of Utah • 300 S University St., Salt Lake City, UT 84112
Tickets: Buy tickets at theatre.utah.edu →
Sweet Charity
Description: Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields' musical about a big-hearted dance-hall hostess looking for love in 1960s New York, with "Big Spender" and "If My Friends Could See Me Now."
Dates: February 12–21, 2027
Venue / Address: Meldrum Theatre, University of Utah • 375 S 1400 E, Salt Lake City, UT 84112
Tickets: Buy tickets at theatre.utah.edu →
The Twelve
Description: A University of Utah Theatre production at Kingsbury Hall.
Dates: March 18–20, 2027
Venue / Address: Kingsbury Hall, University of Utah • 1395 E Presidents' Cir., Salt Lake City, UT 84112
Tickets: Buy tickets at theatre.utah.edu →
Arcadia
Description: Tom Stoppard's witty play that moves between 1809 and the present day at an English country house, mixing romance, math and garden design.
Dates: April 9–18, 2027
Venue / Address: Babcock Theatre, University of Utah • 300 S University St., Salt Lake City, UT 84112
Tickets: Buy tickets at theatre.utah.edu →
Desert Star Playhouse — Murray
Scooby-Doo: Even Stranger Things
Description: Back by popular demand, Desert Star's musical send-up puts the Mystery Machine gang on their strangest case yet, packed with song parodies, groan-worthy gags, and the house tradition of booing the villain. As always, the play is followed by the Olio — a high-energy musical revue that makes it two shows for one ticket. Cabaret seating with food service at your table.
Dates: August 27–November 7, 2026
Venue / Address: Desert Star Playhouse • 4861 S State St., Murray, UT 84107
Tickets: Buy tickets at desertstarplayhouse.com →
🎄 Nutcracker: Men in Tights
Description: Desert Star's holiday parody mashes up the Nutcracker with a Robin Hood-style romp. Boo the villain, cheer the hero, and stay for the Olio musical revue after. Cabaret seating with food service.
Dates: November 12, 2026–January 2, 2027
Venue / Address: Desert Star Playhouse • 4861 S State St., Murray, UT 84107
Draper Historic Theatre
Little Shop of Horrors
Description: The doo-wop musical about a flower-shop clerk and a very hungry plant, in Draper's intimate historic theatre.
Dates: October 9–31, 2026
Venue / Address: Draper Historic Theatre • 12366 S 900 E, Draper, UT 84020
Tickets: Buy tickets at draperhistorictheatre.org →
Puffs
Description: A loving comedy send-up of seven years at a certain wizarding school, told from the view of the house nobody notices.
Dates: November 12–21, 2026
Venue / Address: Draper Historic Theatre • 12366 S 900 E, Draper, UT 84020
Tickets: Buy tickets at draperhistorictheatre.org →
🎄 Frozen
Description: Anna, Elsa and Olaf bring Arendelle's winter to Draper for the holidays.
Dates: December 7–22, 2026
Venue / Address: Draper Historic Theatre • 12366 S 900 E, Draper, UT 84020
West Valley Arts
Wait Until Dark
Description: Frederick Knott's classic 1966 thriller turns the screws in a Greenwich Village apartment, where a blind woman named Susy Hendrix finds herself the target of a con man and two ex-convicts hunting a doll stuffed with heroin. When Susy realizes the elaborate charade being staged around her, she cuts the lights — and the men who came for her must play the final round on her terms, in the dark.
Dates: October 2–24, 2026
Venue / Address: West Valley Performing Arts Center • 3333 Decker Lake Dr., West Valley City, UT 84119
Tickets: Buy tickets at wvcarts.org →
The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals
Description: Hatchetfield looks like any other small town — until residents start bursting into song, then into choreography, and a musical pandemic spreads across the city. StarKid Productions' horror-comedy, from the team behind A Very Potter Musical and Holy Musical B@man!, follows Paul, an ordinary guy with an ordinary dislike of musicals, as he and a handful of survivors try to stop the apocalypse before the jazz hands get them too.
Dates: October 29–November 1, 2026 • 7:30 p.m., with 4 p.m. matinees Oct. 31 and Nov. 1
Note: Oct. 29–31 performances are recommended for ages 8 and up. The Nov. 1 performance is uncensored and recommended for adults only.
Venue / Address: West Valley Performing Arts Center • 3333 Decker Lake Dr., West Valley City, UT 84119
Tickets: Buy tickets at wvcarts.org →
Finding Neverland
Description: The musical about playwright J.M. Barrie and the family that inspired him to create Peter Pan. All ages.
Dates: January 29–February 20, 2027
Venue / Address: West Valley Performing Arts Center • 3333 Decker Lake Dr., West Valley City, UT 84119
Tickets: Buy tickets at wvcarts.org →
Steel Magnolias
Description: Robert Harling's comedy-drama about the friendships among women in a small-town Louisiana beauty salon. Ages 11 and up.
Dates: March 19–April 10, 2027
Note: Includes themes of illness and loss.
Venue / Address: West Valley Performing Arts Center • 3333 Decker Lake Dr., West Valley City, UT 84119
Tickets: Buy tickets at wvcarts.org →
Rent
Description: Jonathan Larson's Tony- and Pulitzer-winning rock musical about young artists in New York's East Village. Ages 15 and up.
Dates: June 11–27, 2027
Note: Contains mature themes and strong language.
Venue / Address: West Valley Performing Arts Center • 3333 Decker Lake Dr., West Valley City, UT 84119
Tickets: Buy tickets at wvcarts.org →
Parker Theatre
To Kill a Mockingbird
Description: Harper Lee's story of Scout Finch, her father Atticus, and a small Alabama town's reckoning with justice.
Dates: September 12–October 17, 2026
Venue / Address: Parker Theatre • 3605 S State St., South Salt Lake, UT 84115
Tickets: Buy tickets at parkertheatre.org →
The Woman in Black
Description: Stephen Mallatratt's ghost-story thriller returns to Parker Theatre for a third year by popular demand. Ages 10 and up.
Dates: Coming this fall — see parkertheatre.org for dates
Venue / Address: Parker Theatre • 3605 S State St., South Salt Lake, UT 84115
Tickets: Buy tickets at parkertheatre.org →
🎄 A Christmas Carol
Description: Parker Theatre's holiday staging of Scrooge's Christmas Eve reckoning.
Dates: November 21–December 24, 2026
Venue / Address: Parker Theatre • 3605 S State St., South Salt Lake, UT 84115
Tickets: Buy tickets at parkertheatre.org →
The Empress Theatre — Magna
Jekyll & Hyde
Description: The Frank Wildhorn musical, set in the shadowed streets of Victorian London. A brilliant doctor's experiment to separate good from evil unleashes an alter ego he cannot control, and his noble pursuit spirals into obsession and murder. Gothic atmosphere, a powerhouse score, and one of musical theatre's great dual roles — performed here by two rotating casts.
Dates: October 2–17, 2026 • Thu–Sat 7:30 p.m., with 2 p.m. Saturday matinees
Note: PG-13 for sensuality, adult themes, and murder. Two casts alternate performances — check the schedule when booking.
Venue / Address: The Empress Theatre • 9104 W 2700 South, Magna, UT 84044
Tickets: Buy tickets at empresstheatre.com →
Annie
Description: The Empress's next musical: Little Orphan Annie and her search for family in Depression-era New York.
Dates: Coming soon — see empresstheatre.com for dates
Venue / Address: The Empress Theatre • 9104 W 2700 South, Magna, UT 84044
Tickets: Buy tickets at empresstheatre.com →
Venue Directory
For complete schedules, visit these websites directly:
Hale Centre Theatre
- Website: hct.org
- Phone: 801-984-9000
Pioneer Theatre Company
- Website: pioneertheatre.org
- Box Office: 801-581-6961
Salt Lake Acting Company
- Website: saltlakeactingcompany.org
Plan-B Theatre
- Website: planbtheatre.org
- Phone/Text: 801-297-4200
University of Utah Theatre
- Website: theatre.utah.edu
Desert Star Playhouse
- Website: desertstarplayhouse.com
Draper Historic Theatre
- Website: draperhistorictheatre.org
West Valley Arts
- Website: wvcarts.org
Parker Theatre
- Website: parkertheatre.org
- Box Office: 801-532-6000
The Empress Theatre
- Website: empresstheatre.com
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