Upcoming Shows
An Undiscovered Room
Jul 24, 2026 – Jul 26, 2026
Interdisciplinary Arts Collective
Interdisciplinary Arts Collective presents “An Undiscovered Room” – a journey into lost and hidden spaces. Over the course of the performance, the audience travels through a maze constructed inside the venue with a series of poles and stitched-together curtains of found and recycled materials.
The performers of Interdisciplinary Arts Collective - dancers, musicians, poets, and actors - navigate the space alongside the audience. Specific conditions inside the maze, such as an encounter with another person, a shift in sound or lighting, etc., triggers performance scores for the artists. Dance, music, and text emerge from these encounters as each score is performed and the work unfolds in a constantly evolving labyrinth of experience, discovery, and connection.
“An Undiscovered Room” is interested in practices of orientation and attunement / in how we might move through the lost and hidden spaces where visibility and certainty twist back on themselves to blur into possibility. IAC designed the maze as a living, resonating space that invites curious travel and encourages its voyagers to explore spatial, sonic, and embodied relationships as we affect and are affected by our encounters with each other. We look forward to meeting you there among the twists and turns.
interdisciplinaryartscollective.com
Genre: Dance, Music
Rating: FF - Fairly Fringe-y (PG-13)
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Polaroids from the Apocalypse by Sara Alanis Morales
Jul 24, 2026 – Aug 2, 2026
PYGmalion Productions
It's 2095, things are not going well. Mom keeps taking Polaroids. Dad is slooowwwwly finishing the long novel Les Miserables. 17 year old Olive is angry and angsty and always has been. Brother Leo charming in a creepy kind of way. There is an impending cataclysm that might bring the family closer together -- or tear them apart. One Polaroid at a time.
Genre: Theatre, Comedy, Drama, Original Script, Dramady, Regional Premiere
Rating: FF - Fairly Fringe-y (PG-13)
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The Emperor's New...Everything!
Jul 26, 2026 – Aug 1, 2026
Salt Lake Children's Theatre
The Emperor’s New… EVERYTHING! is an original 45-minute interactive children’s play set in the whimsical Empire of Oblivionia, where a gullible young Emperor is deceived by a trickster posing as a trend‑predicting noble. With audience participation, the adventure reveals that true leadership comes from wisdom, fairness, & care.
www.saltlakechildrenstheatre.org
Genre: Theatre, Comedy, Original Script, Audience Interaction, Kids' Fringe
Rating: F - Family Friendly (PG)
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The Variants
Jul 25, 2026 – Aug 2, 2026
Curious Modern Plays
Balancing sharp humor with emotional volatility, The Variants captures the chaos of how even the closest relationships can fracture when beliefs collide.
During weekly video chats, a mother and her three adult children hold themselves together the only way they know how: routine, humor, and just enough denial to keep things moving.
But when their long-delayed reunion is finally within reach, one son refuses to play by the rules, setting off a chain reaction that pulls every fault line to the surface.
What begins as a single act of defiance quickly escalates—exposing secrets, shifting alliances, and forcing each member of the family to confront what they believe, and what those beliefs cost.
As the distance between them finally closes, the question isn’t just if they can come together, but what it will take.
Featuring Annette Wright, Kirt Bateman, Eva TerraNova, and Allen Smith.
Directed by Teresa Sanderson.
A Curious Modern Plays production, in association with Meanwhile Park and with support from Salt Lake Acting Company.
curiousmodernplays.com/the-variants
Genre: Theatre, Comedy, Original Script
Rating: FFF - Full-Fledged Fringe (R)
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To Be Frank...
Jul 25, 2026 – Aug 1, 2026
Salt Lake Community College
Inspired by The NeoFuturists, “To Be Frank” will shatter the fourth wall as audiences soar through a fast and furious hour of interactive theatre, dance, slam poetry, song, improv, games, and more. Diving deep into their lived experience and fueled by a desire to be the representation they have longed to see onstage, over the past 2 weeks, 11 actors have created 25 original pieces rooted in ‘a moment of truth’. They will attempt to perform all 25 with 1 catch: the audience gets to choose which piece they want to see next.
Genre: Theatre, Original Script, World Premiere, Audience Interaction
Rating: FF - Fairly Fringe-y (PG-13)
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Under Observation
Jul 25, 2026 – Aug 2, 2026
Shaped for Sportive Tricks Theater Co.
Plagued by potentially prophetic dreams, recently disabled parasitic botanist Isaac races against the clock, his (loving?) boyfriend, and corporate bylaws to save the unobtrusive Dwarf Mistletoe from certain extinction, all while attempting to manage worsening symptoms.
Under Observation is a queer thriller dance/theater piece written by Tony Trunnell heavily based on 'The Rite of Spring' by Stravinsky that leaves the audience asking 'Am I allowed to watch this?’
Genre: Theatre, Dance, Comedy, Drama, Original Script, World Premiere, Avant-Garde/Experimental
Rating: FF - Fairly Fringe-y (PG-13)
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The Unseen
Jul 31, 2026
Creators Dance Project
The Unseen opens in rupture.
A sudden emotional fracture disrupts control before it has time to form, exposing the raw, unfiltered edge of the human experience. From there, the work pulls inward—into the quieter, psychological terrain that follows impact, where thoughts loop, emotions settle, and tension hides beneath the surface.
Through layered physical storytelling, moments of restraint are interrupted by flashes of unpredictability and humor, revealing the instability beneath even the most composed exterior. Patterns emerge, distort, and collapse as dancers navigate the constant push between control and release.
The Unseen explores the full spectrum beneath the surface—where humor, pressure, contradiction, and vulnerability coexist—and where what is hidden continues to shape what is seen.
Genre: Contemporary Dance, Drama
Rating: F - Family Friendly (PG)
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Keller has an hour to win an Oscar
Jul 25, 2026 – Aug 2, 2026
Keller-Lee
Every actor dreams of winning an Oscar, and Keller is going to be one of those lucky few that actually do. In an hour. From graduating to giving the acceptance speech, Keller is going to speed run the entertainment industry and accomplish every dream she's ever had before the Concerta wears off. Featuring Kermit the Frog (unconfirmed), Stephen Colbert (unconfirmed), Emma Stone (unconfirmed), Sam Reich (unconfirmed), and more! (Unconfirmed)
Genre: Theatre, One-Person Show, Comedy, Original Script, World Premiere, Audience Interaction
Rating: FFF - Full-Fledged Fringe (R)
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Puppet Karaoke
Jul 26, 2026 – Aug 2, 2026
Puppets in the City
Puppet Karaoke is an improvisational performance with audience participation. Audience members pick their favorite song, chose a puppet from the many we bring and the puppet performs the song. No singing is necessary and a stage with curtains is provided. The puppeteers of Puppets in the City are on hand for all any of the participants' needs, including back up "singers" and bubbles. Yes, bubbles!
Genre: Theatre, Music, Comedy, Audience Interaction
Rating: FF - Fairly Fringey (PG-13)
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REPLACEMENTS
Jul 25, 2026 – Aug 2, 2026
Salt Monster Theatre Co.
Two workers sit in a pristine room, performing simple tasks in perfect unison: fill out paperwork, clean, reset the machine. The rules are clear. The expectations are not. At the end of each shift, one of them will be “replaced.”
At first, it’s routine. Predictable. Controlled. Then instructions shift and become increasingly specific, then unstable, then impossible. What once felt like a job turns into a relentless evaluation with no clear criteria.
As the pressure builds, the line between obedience and survival begins to blur. Every action matters. Every hesitation is noticed. Success is undefined, and failure is inevitable.
Replacements is an original, dark absurdist play exploring obedience, labor, and a system that demands perfection and explains nothing. In a world where worth is measured by alignment and strict obedience, two workers must decide what matters most: following instructions or knowing when not to. |
www.abharrison.com/saltmonstertheatreco
Instagram: @saltmonstertheatrco
Facebook: Salt Monster Theatre Co
Genre: Theatre, Drama, Original Script, World Premiere, Avant-Garde/Experimental
Rating: FF - Fairly Fringey (PG-13)
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Sugar Mud
Jul 25, 2026 – Aug 2, 2026
Meat Bar
Get on the dirt clod bitches -- we're gettin' picked up by a tornada'! “Sugar Mud” is a surreal, solo clown show presented by Meat Bar, a Los Angeles based comedian and performance artist. This show is inspired by their Granny (born 1908) getting picked up by a tornado (in 1920), the writer Jorge Luis Borges (born 1899) and his short story Circular Ruins (written in 1940), an eternal marriage becoming an eternal divorce (∞), their Mormon temple name [redacted], rock bottoms, and rocks.
The show takes place on a floating clod of dirt that hovers in the eye of the storm. You—the audience—get sucked up into this domain, ruled by a crone so ancient, so washed up, they are difficult to distinguish from the rock formations that surround them.
Through a vortex of magical surrealism and fringe society wisdom, 'Sugar Mud' explores themes of natural order, oral histories, historical birth orders, family lineage, and generational rock bottoms. The show examines the device of storytelling–how it is used to foist systemic control, and the alchemy that occurs when stories are rewritten–restructuring the imposed order. And because we’re traveling through time in a tornado, much thematic mass gets picked up along the way. The show asks important questions like “what’s dangerous and to who?,” “who’s is this?,” and “what’s the dog’s name?”
But most importantly, on its floor and on it's face, the show is absurdly stupid.
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Audience Reviews:
“Sugar Mud was an inventive, beautiful mix of sacred and profane. Surprises throughout and the ending had me sitting with my mouth wide open. I felt like I was in the damn Courage the Cowardly Dog house.”
“Rarely do you arrive in a theater and get transported both gently and instantaneously. Part magical realism, part grandma hang time – Meat made us all familiars in this strangely beautiful space.”
“I got lost in this show’s magic – its elegant movement, its crunchy weird comedy, its ethereal exploration of familial ick and heart – this is a special show.”
“This is easily one of the best show's I've seen in my dang life. Meat was not just a granny, a Mormon gossip – I was a grand kid, I was a Mormon gossip. I was so brought into this transcendent world and did not want to leave. The stage pictures, set, and costuming were in a riveting conversation with each other. Laughing every second, this lil’rally throbbed with brilliance.”
"I didn't know performance could look like this."
Genre: Theatre, One-Person Show, Comedy, Drama, Original Script, Avant-Garde/Experimental, Clown
Rating: FF - Fairly Fringe-y (PG-13)
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The 2,045,148,705th Most Interesting Person in the World
Jul 24, 2026 – Aug 1, 2026
Cache Dexter
I admit: I’m not the most interesting person in the world. I’m the 2,045,148,705th most interesting person in the world. The 2,045,148,704th most interesting person in the world, the person one spot ahead of me, is named Baby Satan. You think: He does sound interesting, with a name like that. But he’s just an average accountant from Ohio, and it’s a crime that he is more interesting than me. This show is my attempt to become more interesting than Baby Satan.
Genre: One-Person Show, Comedy
Rating: FF - Fairly Fringe-y (PG-13)
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Twink or Swim
Jul 25, 2026 – Aug 1, 2026
J'myle Koretz
Twink or Swim: A 1990s Salt Lake City gay teen enlists in the US Navy and is sent to Japan to join the crew of a 224’ long warship made out of wood--the boat, and the Sailors, too.
J'myle Koretz is a Seattle-based stand-up comedian. He was born in Salt Lake, the only city where being a Jew makes you a gentile. He came out in 2000, just as Mitt Romney was saving the Winter Olympics. After he left West High School in 2003, he worked briefly for Howard Dean and John Kerry’s presidential campaign. He joined the Navy and spent four years in the Western Pacific on the crew of USS Patriot, an Avenger-class warship, visiting over 30 countries on a mission to sweep mines and meet guys.
He lives in Seattle and performs stand up comedy from San Francisco to Vancouver.
Genre: One-Person Show, Comedy
Rating: FF - Fairly Fringe-y (PG-13)
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Dramapocalypse
Jul 25, 2026 – Aug 2, 2026
After one of them says The Word, (You know, the one word you’re not supposed to say in a theatre that starts with ‘M’) the members of a dysfunctional high school drama board are locked in their auditorium by the ghost of William Shakespeare himself. Telling them he promises to only kill the person who invoked him so long as they fess up, the group must figure out who among them would be dumb enough to say the word. Will these idiosyncratic kids manage to find the culprit, or will heightened tensions be the death of them?
Genre: Theatre, Comedy, Original Script, World Premiere
Rating: FFF - Full-Fledged Fringe (R)
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Helen
Jul 30, 2026 – Aug 2, 2026
Annabelle Willes
Helen of Sparta knows how the story ends: badly. Yet she keeps telling it, over and over again, helpless as the tragedies of the Trojan War unfold in front of her eyes. She oscillates between being part of the story and simply watching it happen around her.
Maybe this time it will be different.
Inspired by ancient and contemporary tragedies alike, HELEN is an original play firmly rooted in the storytelling traditions of Ancient Greece, seeking to highlight the humanity in all of its characters—for better or for worse.
Genre: Theatre, Drama, Original Script, World Premiere
Rating: FF - Fairly Fringe-y (PG-13)
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It Could Be Any One of Us
Jul 25, 2026 – Jul 30, 2026
Jack Bell & Max Rhineer
"It Could Be Any One of Us” is a hilarious play about the crushing inevitability of progress and the death of humanity as we know it. When three friends discover a member of their party is a robot in a not-so-distant future, they will stop at nothing to root them out. Will it be one of the two humans, or the metal puppet who talks through a speaker? There's no way to be sure. After all, AI is so lifelike these days.
Genre: Theatre, Comedy, Drama
Rating: FFF - Full-Fledged Fringe (R)
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THE HISS
Jul 24, 2026 – Aug 2, 2026
Lark & Loon
December 31, 1999. 6 friends, 1house party. 4 of them are trying to be the next Kurt Cobain. 1 of them is succeeding. The golden boy, the riot grrrl, the goth, the watcher, the painter, and the transplant. Malcolm is trying to figure out what exactly happened that night, and why no one wants to talk about it. Within all of the haze and the grunge basslines, "THE HISS" is a drama told through music, movement, and spoken word ... about what it means to live the truth.
Genre: Theatre, Music, Drama, Original Script, World Premiere, Avant-Garde/Experimental
Rating: FFF - Full-Fledged Fringe (R)
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The Quest of the Dragon
Jul 25, 2026 – Jul 26, 2026
Silå Productions
The Quest of the Dragon is an adventure of epic proportions where nine kids embark on a quest to save their town. An original student play, written, directed and produced by students, with original songs. The show lasts 45 minutes. This is the second play from Selå Productions with this cast.
Genre: Theatre, Comedy, Drama, Original Script, World Premiere, Kids' Fringe
Rating: F - Family Friendly (PG)
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This is Jane
Jul 24, 2026 – Aug 2, 2026
Opera Contempo
It all begins with a phone call. When a pregnant student seeks an illegal abortion in 1965, it leads to the creation of one of the most important activist groups of all time: the Jane Collective, Chicago’s revolutionary underground abortion service. This is Jane tells the story of the Collective through the lives of those who were part of it as patients, volunteers, staff, and practitioners, drawing on interviews, memoirs, and historical sources, and testifies to the continuing need for reproductive rights.
Act 2, Scene 3: Jane volunteer Kate has overhead other Janes talking, and has learned that the man currently providing abortions for Jane's clients isn't a licensed doctor. She tells Rosie, a volunteer who is also one of Jane's leaders, and Rosie admits that not only did she know that, but that the man has been training select Jane volunteers to perform abortions themselves. Rosie argues that it'll be better for their clients to have women taking care of them, that the costs will be lower, and that the procedure is safer than removing tonsils. Kate comes around to agree with Rosie and sees the wisdom in using trained Janes to provide abortions, but insists that Rosie tell the rest of the Janes.
Act 2, Scene 4: At a meeting of all of Jane's volunteers, Cici, Rosie, and Lainie, all leaders in Jane, announce the change from using the previous abortion provider to having trained Janes do the procedures. The Janes fracture here, with some women enthusiastically in support of the training while others feel it's unethical and storm out.
Act 2, Scene 5: Cici, who has long been the leader of Jane, brings in Rosie and Lainie, her right-hand women, to tell them that the cancer for which she's been receiving treatment has become terminal, and that she has to scale back on some of her Jane activities. She explains her situation and asks them to help take over for her when she cannot work any longer.
Genre: Theatre, Music, Drama, Original Script, World Premiere, Avant-Garde/Experimental
Rating: FF - Fairly Fringe-y (PG-13)
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Daisy Voo’s Juggling Debut
Jul 30, 2026 – Aug 2, 2026
Daisy Voo
He’s great at juggling and mediocre at everything else. 18 years of dedication has led Daisy Voo to this point. A show of intense yet effortless tricks, laughs, and audience members being held at knifepoint.
https://daisyvoo.univer.se/
https://www.instagram.com/daisy.voo?igsh=cGc5M251cXZ2ZTgx
https://www.tiktok.com/@daisyvoo
Genre: One-Person Show, Magic, Juggling and comedy
Rating: FF - Fairly Fringe-y (PG-13)
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Happy Birthday Mr. President.
Jul 24, 2023 – Aug 1, 2026
Trust Fall
A table, cookies, pop-its, paper cups, the Intern, a COO, a CFO, the CEO, and perhaps the worst birthday party ever. At a first glance, the activities seem to be pleasant; pin the tail on the donkey, beer pong, and charades; but, it becomes quickly apparent that in a culture where time is money, and the ultimate currency is time itself, it becomes quite difficult to enjoy yourself. This ordinary office party becomes a very unordinary day in the lives of the party-goers, challenging them to engage in themes of friendship, humanity, purposeful-existence, and to let go of the clock. Happy Birthday Mr. President is a cautionary tale, and a reminder of the simple joys of life. And, if you don’t like it, you only spent an hour of your time–but you did spend it.
Genre: Theatre, Comedy, Original Script, World Premiere
Rating: FF - Fairly Fringe-y (PG-13)
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in my room
Jul 25, 2026 – Aug 2, 2026
Laura Elise Chapman
a romp! a cabaret! a charcuterie of laura through the ages! come sneak a peek into what this gal has gotten up to in her room over the years, not in a perv way sicko, just a cheeky sampler of moments and songs and tears and cheers from behind her bedroom door. come on in!
Genre: Theatre, Dance, Music, One-Person Show, Comedy, Drama, Original Script, World Premiere
Rating: FFF - Full-Fledged Fringe (R)
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Ophelia is STILL Drowning!?!
Jul 25, 2026 – Aug 1, 2026
Sandra Detweiler "Something is rotten in Denmark, but Ophelia has it pretty good. ""The eldest daughter of a nobleman, Ophelia lived in fantasy""… or something like that. If only her dad would stop micromanaging her love life. If only Prince Hamlet would hurry up and propose. If only her brother would let her play his electric guitar….
Ophelia Is STILL Drowning!?! is a one-person play that mixes Shakespeare with smart phones and rock music, asking us to consider some of the most fundamental questions of our time—
How are women still limited by the expectations of society?
Is tragedy inevitable, or is a celebrity football player all we need to save us?
How do patriarchal power structures undermine bodily autonomy for everyone?
And, what if Ophelia knew how to swim?
Content advisory: contains mentions of death and suicide"
Instagram-Ophelia is STILL Drowning
Instagram-Sandy Detweiler
Genre: Theatre, Music, One-Person Show, World Premiere
Rating: FF - Fairly Fringe-y (PG-13)
Shakespeare's King John – A Solo Performance
Jul 30, 2026 – Aug 2, 2026
The Giddy Round
Shakespeare’s bold, strikingly modern King John is one of his sharpest critiques of unconstrained power and its abuses—an unflinching portrait of the bloody price that a whole society must pay for a few men’s political ambitions. Yet even in his jagged narrative, he finds poignancy, humanity, heartbreak and humor shimmering through a darkly cynical vision that feels startlingly, urgently familiar. An international collaboration, this swift and lean solo adaptation directed by Macedonian director Damjan Dimovski features an unforgettable cast of characters, each meticulously embodied by actor Matthew Windham.
https://thegiddyround.wixsite.com/site
Genre: Theatre, One-Person Show, Drama
Rating: F - Family Friendly (PG)
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The Unanswered Questions of a Post Religious Girl in Her 20s
Jul 25, 2026 – Aug 1, 2026
Tabitha Whittekiend
Like many others in Utah, a girl was raised to believe that there were certain, unalienable, truths about what was good and what was bad. But as she leaves the religious bubble she has always known, she must navigate the life that comes with. She learns to cope with the help of a woman's best friend, her journal. Come along as we explore (but perhaps don't answer) questions such as: "Am I allowed to say fuck?", "At what point can I mark yes on sexually active at the gynecologist?" and "Will I get schizophrenia if I smoke weed?".
https://tabithawhittekiend.my.canva.site/
Genre: Theatre, Comedy, Original Script, World Premiere
Rating: FFF - Full-Fledged Fringe (R)
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There's Only Two Left
Jul 24, 2026 – Aug 2, 2026
Method: Theatre Company
An acting trio prepares for their debut performance when they find one of their members dead. Follow their journey through an improvised performance, where we learn the hidden secrets of their relationship and the lengths they would go to protect their innocence. The story ends differently every night–even the actors on stage don’t know what’s going to happen next!
Genre: Theatre, Original Script, Avant-Garde/Experimental, Improv
Rating: FF - Fairly Fringe-y (PG-13)
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