Public Tours

Come and see behind-the-scenes at your favorite venue! We offer community group and school tours, as the venue schedules permit.

Community Group Tours

• Minimum six weeks’ notice required
• Minimum of 10 people and maximum of 30
• Children must be accompanied by a parent or adult
• Tours for groups greater than 30 require a minimum eight weeks’ notice and can be considered based on staff availability

School Tours

• Minimum eight weeks’ notice required
• Minimum of 10 people and maximum of 30
• Elementary, junior and senior high schools must have 1 adult per 10 kids
• Tours for groups greater than 30 require a minimum eight weeks’ notice and can be considered based on staff availability
• Students not following the rules will be asked to leave or sit in the lobby with a chaperone for the duration of the tour

Tour Request

Residency Program 

Salt Lake County’s Arts & Culture Residency program provides direct support to several of Utah’s finest performing arts organizations. Residents receive priority booking, dedicated rehearsal space, and some have on-site office and storage spaces.  This stability allows Residents to focus on their artistic and creative excellence, audience development, and organizational growth.

Abravanel Hall

Utah Symphony
The Utah Symphony is one of America’s major symphony orchestras; it is renowned internationally for its distinctive performances and recording legacy. The Symphony has a rich 75-year history of international and domestic tours, award-winning recordings, and in-depth educational programs. The orchestra’s 85 full-time professional musicians perform over 175 concerts each season.

Capitol Theatre

Ballet West
Ballet West showcases a rich and varied repertoire, presented by elegant and versatile artists in a dynamic, expansive, and unexpected style. Its eclectic and ever-expanding outlook makes Ballet West a pioneer in the world of dance. Ballet West creates and performs most of its season at the Capitol Theatre.

Utah Opera
A focus on new works and non-traditional audiences has helped Utah Opera broaden opera-goers horizons. The company’s high production standards and vibrant energy have delighted patrons with both new and classical works.

The Rose

Gina Bachauer International Piano Foundation
The Bachauer Foundation sponsors events, concerts, and competitions to enrich Salt Lake City’s culture by providing musical experiences for audiences and performers. The foundation has helped more than 1,000 pianists participate in young, junior and amateur piano competitions.

Plan-B Theatre Company
This award-winning company produces socially conscious theater with a local point of view and explores global stories from a local perspective. Plan-B also works to nurture a pool of Salt Lake City playwrights that rivals any other city in the country.

Pygmalion Productions
Pygmalion Theater Company creates performances that share the human experience through the eyes of women.

Repertory Dance Theatre
For 50 years, Repertory Dance Theatre (RDT) has pushed the boundaries of modern dance, while preserving and celebrating its legacy. RDT is the nation’s oldest and most successful repertory dance company. Unlike conventional modern dance organizations, we present you with a diverse range of modern dance styles and choreographers paired together in dynamic and unexpected performances.

Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company
For the last 50 years the internationally renowned Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company has made contemporary dance accessible to everybody through performance and education. The Company is well-known for producing innovative and original works, touring nationally and internationally, and providing dance education.

SB Dance
Sweet Beast Dance Circus. The experimental, avant-garde SB Dance uses irreverent humor, poignant drama, sensuality, and athletic feats to provide an incomparable entertainment experience.

Regent Street Black Box at the Eccles 

Jaks Theatre Company
Jaks Theatre Company is a unique program for young people, providing instruction in the basic components of performing arts.

The Sting & Honey Company
The Sting & Honey Company believes the theater should be a place of creation, beauty, and awe. They achieve this ideal by providing an environment where artists and audiences can open themselves to that transcendence peculiar to live theater.

Utah Classical Guitar
Utah Classical Guitar is dedicated to promoting classical music and music education to the State of Utah by means of classical guitar performances, clinics, master classes, outreach concerts, and education programs.

Cultural Core & THE BLOCKS

Salt Lake County and Salt Lake City are working together to strengthen Utah’s “Cultural Core” with an investment of more than $9 million over 20 years. Branded as THE BLOCKS, this County and City initiative focuses on attracting audiences to the 40-block neighborhood in downtown Salt Lake City that contains the state’s highest concentration of arts, culture, events, activities and entertainment. Working closely with the creative community, THE BLOCKS showcases the amazing talent and dynamic energy of downtown Salt Lake City while activating and reimagining underutilized public spaces and venues. 

Learn about what THE BLOCKS are doing now.

Eccles Theater Arts for All Program

We believe in Arts for All!  Our Eccles Theater Arts for All program provides tickets to Broadway shows and other live events to qualified Salt Lake County Residents.  The tickets are free of charge and are limited to four per year per family or household.  The program is funded by a nominal fee on tickets sold for Eccles Theater events.   

For questions and information, contact Cami Munk at cmunk@slco.org.