Here’s what Utah’s major performing arts groups are staging this fall
Tumble is the time for likely back to school, looking at the leaves adjust shade, ordering pumpkin spice everything, and for Utah’s big performing arts groups to start their new seasons.
Here’s a thumbnail guidebook to what the area’s main accomplishing arts groups — theater, dance, classical tunes and opera — are staging from now via November.
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Ballet West is scheduled to deliver back again its generation of “Dracula” — noticed listed here in its 2021 gown rehearsal — to the Capitol Theatre in Salt Lake City, Oct. 20-28, 2023.
Ballet West • A person of America’s main ballet corporations, the troupe kicks off the 2023-2024 year with “Dracula” — total with traveling vampires — Oct. 20-28. That will be adopted by “Firebird,” a trio of performs that involves the title dance, dependent on founder Willam Christensen’s unique choreography and established to Igor Stravinsky’s audio, as very well as George Balanchine’s “Stars and Stripes Forever” and the premiere of Joshua Whitehead’s “Fever Dream,” Nov. 3-11. Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, Salt Lake City. Tickets available at BalletWest.org.
Broadway at the Eccles • The only touring manufacturing coming to the Eccles this tumble is Lincoln Centre Theatre’s revival of Lerner & Loewe’s “My Fair Girl,” in which the irascible linguistics professional Henry Higgins bets he can flip a Cockney flower seller into someone passable as royalty. It runs Nov. 12-18. Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main St., Salt Lake Town. Tickets out there at saltlakecity.broadway.com.
Hale Heart Theatre • Utah’s durably well-liked neighborhood theater organization is programming year-round on its two phases. Correct now, the comedy mystery “Catch Me If You Can” is actively playing via Nov. 11 in the Sorenson Legacy Jewel Box Theatre. An adaptation of Jules Verne’s “Around the Planet in 80 Days” will be mounted at the Younger Living Centre Phase from Sept. 13 to Oct. 21. Then arrive the holiday reveals: “Elf: The Musical” in the Jewel Box from Nov. 6 to Jan. 6 and the 39th once-a-year staging of “A Xmas Carol” in the Centre Stage, Nov. 24 to Dec. 28. Mountain The united states Carrying out Arts Centre, 9900 S. Monroe St., Sandy. Tickets accessible at hct.org.
Pioneer Theatre Enterprise • Two large productions to commence off the 2023-2024 year of Utah’s most significant professional theater firm: A phase adaptation of Agatha Christie’s secret basic “Murder on the Orient Categorical,” Sept. 22-Oct. 7 and a Halloween-timed staging of the camp vintage musical “The Rocky Horror Clearly show,” Oct. 20-31. Pioneer Memorial Theatre, University of Utah campus, 300 S. 1400 East, Salt Lake Metropolis. Tickets accessible at PioneerTheatre.org.
Prepare-B Theatre • The avant-garde company’s fall production is a are living broadcast (with a are living audience) of “Radio Hour,” Strategy-B’s collaboration with KUER’s RadioWest, this time tackling “Sherlock Holmes and the Last Difficulty,” scripted by Matthew Ivan Bennett and starring KUER’s Doug Fabrizio as Holmes, on Oct. 27 (reveals at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.). Jeanne Wagner Theatre, Rose Wagner Undertaking Arts Middle, 138 W. 300 South, Salt Lake Metropolis. Tickets readily available at PlanBTheatre.org.
(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Actor-musician Dee-Dee Darby-Duffin is scheduled to conduct as component of Repertory Dance Theatre’s work “I Am…,” established for Oct. 5-7, 2023, at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center in Salt Lake City.
Repertory Dance Theatre • The dance troupe has two fall displays on the routine: “I Am…,” a narrative of a Black girl, choreographed by Natosha Washington and featuring actor/performer Dee-Dee Darby-Duffin, functioning Oct. 5-7 and “Venture,” a trio of commissioned works from preceding winners of RDT’s “Regalia” choreography competitiveness, additionally two a lot more premieres, Nov. 16-18. Rose Wagner Executing Arts Centre, 138 W. 300 South, Salt Lake Metropolis. Tickets readily available at RDTUtah.org.
Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company • The enterprise starts off its 60th anniversary year, Sept. 21-23, with “Groundworks,” a retrospective clearly show featuring a tribute to founders Shirley Ririe and Joan Woodbury, as well as a work by Alwin Nikolais, whose choreography played a significant part in the company’s formation. Rose Wagner Undertaking Arts Centre, 138 W. 300 South, Salt Lake City. Tickets obtainable at RirieWoodbury.com.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Actor and playwright Sarah Shippobotham is scheduled to complete her one particular-woman play, “Can I Say Sure to the Costume?” from Sept. 27-Oct. 29, 2023, to kick off Salt Lake Acting Company’s 2023-2024 year.
Salt Lake Acting Corporation • SLAC’s slide generation runs Sept. 27-Oct. 29: The earth premiere of writer-performer Sarah Shippobotham’s one particular-woman exhibit “Can I Say Certainly to the Costume?,” in which a center-aged girl is trapped in a marriage-gown changing place as she “questions her lifetime choices and what it really implies to be a female.” SLAC, 168 W. 500 North, Salt Lake Town. Tickets available at SaltLakeActingCompany.org.
Utah Opera • The company’s slide manufacturing is Puccini’s “La Bohème,” sung in Italian with English supertitles, functioning for five performances from Oct. 7 to 17. Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, Salt Lake City. Tickets available at UtahOpera.org.
Utah Provides • Four eclectic shows at Kingsbury Hall this slide: The joropo audio ensemble Cimarrón, doing standard Colombian and Venezuelan songs, on Sept. 27 SALT Contemporary Dance’s 1930s-themed present “Radio Silence,” Oct. 20-21 the acrobatic dance troupe Circa performing its latest function, “Humans 2.,” on Oct. 25 and Timothy White Eagle’s “The Indigo Place,” described as “an immersive, ritualistic theater and set up work,” Nov. 9-11. Kingsbury Corridor, College of Utah, 1395 E. Presidents Circle, Salt Lake Town. Tickets readily available at UtahPresents.org.
Utah Shakespeare Corporation • Absolutely sure, it’s a summertime thing, but the Utah Shakespeare Competition is even now functioning by Oct. 7, with ongoing productions of “Jane Austen’s Emma” and “The Play that Goes Wrong” in the Randall L. Jones Theatre, and “TImon of Athens” and “Coriolanus” in the Anes Studio Theatre. Also, the outside Engelstad Shakespeare Theatre will host a student production of “Twelfth Night” on Sept. 29 and 30, and Oct. 2, 6 and 7. Southern Utah University, Cedar Metropolis. Tickets available at bard.org.
Utah Symphony • Utah’s premier classical new music firm has a baker’s dozen of packages scheduled from now via November, but there are some highlights: Dvořák’s “New World” Symphony & Barber’s Violin Concerto on Sept. 15-16 Beethoven’s Ninth on Nov. 3-4 and Tony winner Audra McDonald carrying out with the symphony on Nov. 10-11. Abravanel Corridor, 123 W. South Temple, Salt Lake Town. Tickets readily available at UtahSymphony.org.
