FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Plan-B Theatre announces Season 36!
Our 2026/27 Subscription Series is comprised of the 20th anniversary revival of FACING EAST by Carol Lynn Pearson, the world premiere of RADIO HOUR EPISODE 18: THE LAND OF OZ by Debora Threedy, adapted from L. Frank Baum - a co-production with RadioWest, and the world premiere of WHAT THE PHỞ? by Wendy Dang.
Our 2025/26 Free Elementary School Tour (our 14th annual!) is the world premiere of SNAIL MAIL by Melissa Leilani Larson. Public performances are also free.
And the Script-In-Hand Series (now in its 22nd year!) continues providing plays-in-progress their first first audience.
TICKETS
Subscriptions -
$63, a savings of 25% -
are available here
or by calling or texting us
at 801.297.4200.
Single tickets -
$25 ($15 students) + fees -
are available here
or by calling 801.355.ARTS.
PRESS INQUIRIES
All playwrights are available for interview. Please call or text Artistic Director Jerry Rapier at 801.297.4200 or email us to schedule.
SHOW ART
All show art for the 2026/27 Season was created by Aaron Asano Swenson.
OUR 2026/27 SUBSCRIPTION SERIES
by Carol Lynn Pearson
October 22-November 8, 2026
in the Studio Theatre @ The Rose
70 minutes
No intermission
No late seating
Ruth (Dee-Dee Darby-Duffin) and Alex McCormick (Jay Perry) are the perfect Mormon couple. Or they were. Reeling from their son's suicide, they unexpectedly encounter his partner Marcus (Kaplan Keener) for the first time.
FACING EAST is an unforgettable journey of faith and family.
Dedicated to the memories of Bruce Bastian (who made it all possible) and Charles Lynn Frost (the original Alex). And serendipitously, Jay Perry, the original Marcus, now plays Alex.
FACING EAST received its world premiere at Plan-B Theatre (Salt Lake City, November 2006 & May 2007; off-Broadway at Atlantic Stage 2 in New York, May-June 2007; and at Theatre Rhinoceros in San Francisco, August 2007). Directed by Jerry Rapier, it featured Charles Lynn Frost as Alex, Jayne Luke as Ruth, and Jay Perry as Marcus. That nearly year-long production received myriad awards, including Best Drama from Deseret News and Best Original Play from Salt Lake City Weekly. FACING EAST has since received dozens of productions and now we're bringing it home.
A WORLD PREMIERE BY DEBORA THREEDY, ADAPTED FROM L. FRANK BAUM, PERFORMED AS RADIO DRAMA WITH YOU AS THE 'LIVE STUDIO AUDIENCE'
December 16, 2026 @ 11am & 7pm
in the Jeanne Wagner Theatre @ The Rose
60 minutes
No intermission
No late seating
Performed by Jay Perry, Isabella Reeder, and Teresa Sanderson as live radio drama hosted by Doug Fabrizio - the most unique family fun in Salt Lake City this holiday season!
Trouble is brewing in The Land of Oz in ways both expected and un-. Dorothy and the Wizard have left Oz, Scarecrow is now King, and chaos rules.
RADIO HOUR EPISODE 18: THE LAND OF OZ is adapted from The Marvelous Land of Oz, the second of L. Frank Baum's 14 original Oz books.
You are the live studio audience as both performances are broadcast live on KUER's RadioWest. Ages 10+.
WHAT THE PHỞ?, A WORLD PREMIERE BY WENDY DANG
March 4-21, 2027
in the Studio Theatre @ The Rose
65 minutes
No intermission
No late seating
Mai (Chelsea Chen) works in her family's phở restaurant, but she wants more.
Binh (Austinn Le) works in his family's phở restaurant, but he wants more.
Will their meet cute change anything or everything?
WHAT THE PHỞ? is a romantic comedy about food, family, and forging your own future.
Workshopped as part of the 2025/26 Script-In-Hand Series.
FACING EAST and WHAT THE PHỞ? will serve high school students in grades 11-12 with free student matinees via our A Week With A Play program, wherein students read a play, see that play, and then discuss it with the playwright(s). RADIO HOUR EPISODE 18: THE LAND OF OZ will serve middle and high school students in grades 7-12. Registration information is available here.
OUR 2026/27 FREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TOUR
A WORLD PREMIERE BY MELISSA LEILANI LARSON
September 2026-May 2027
Our fourteenth annual Free Elementary School Tour serving students in grades 4-6 at 100 elementary schools statewide.
Malia and Chester have been best friends forever.
But now Malia's dad has a new job,
which means she has to move really far away.
So what does that mean for sixth grade?
SNAIL MAIL is a road trip through friendship, postcards, and the scientific method.
OUR 2026/27 SCRIPT-IN-HAND SERIES
READINGS OF PLAYS-IN-PROGRESS
This series has been providing plays-in-progress their first audience since 2004. The plays-in-progress by Utah playwrights to be read this season are:
UNEARTH A STORY: STORYTELLING WITH PLAN-B THEATRE by Latoya Cameron, Wendy Dang, Dee-Dee Darby-Duffin, Pedro Flores, Carlos Herman, Sonia Maritza Inoa-Rosado Maughan, Aaron Asano Swenson
Saturday, July 11, 2026 @ 4pm
Multi-Purpose Room @ Marmalade Library
Short plays from the second cohort of our Theatre Artists of Color Writing Workshop in partnership with the Marmalade Branch of the Salt Lake City Public Library.
TBA
BY TBA
Saturday, March 27, 2027 @ 7pm
in the Studio Theatre @ The Rose
Details forthcoming.
LIMERENCE
by Ariana Broumas Farber
Saturday, April 3, 2027 @ 7pm
in the Studio Theatre @ The Rose
A struggling ghostwriter’s relationship with a controversial conservative author blurs the line between reality and fiction in this neo-noir thriller.