Editing Salt Lake City (section)

===Performing arts===
[[File:Slc abravanel hall.jpg|thumb|Abravanel Hall]]
Salt Lake City provides venues for both professional and amateur theatre. The city attracts traveling Broadway and Off-Broadway performances in the historic Capitol Theatre. Local professional acting companies include the [[Pioneer Theatre Company]], Salt Lake Acting Company, and [[Plan-B Theatre Company]], which is the only theatre company in Utah fully devoted to developing new plays by Utah playwrights.

Salt Lake City is home to [[The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square]], founded in 1847 as the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. The choir's weekly program, called ''[[Music and the Spoken Word]]'', is the world's longest-running continuous network broadcast.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://fans.musicandthespokenword.org/history/|title=Music & the Spoken Word — History|publisher=[[Bonneville International|Bonneville Communications]]|access-date=April 14, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121224090814/http://fans.musicandthespokenword.org/history/|archive-date=December 24, 2012}}</ref> Salt Lake City is the home to the [[Utah Symphony Orchestra]], which was founded in 1940 and grew to become a major US orchestra during the tenure of its former music director, [[Maurice Abravanel]], who led the orchestra from 1947 through 1979. Its music director is [[Thierry Fischer]]. The orchestra's original home was the [[Salt Lake Tabernacle]], but since 1979 has performed at [[Abravanel Hall]] in the western downtown area. In 2002, Utah Symphony merged with [[Utah Opera]], which was founded in 1978 by Glade Peterson and under its Artistic Director Christopher McBeth annually presents four opera productions in the Capitol Theatre. Salt Lake City area is home to the renowned children's choir from The Madeleine Choir School, and the Salt Lake Children's Choir (established in 1979).

The University of Utah features two dance departments, the Ballet Department and the [[University of Utah Department of Modern Dance|Department of Modern Dance]]. Professional dance companies in Salt Lake City include [[Ballet West]], [[Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company]] (which celebrated its 45th anniversary season in 2008/2009) and [[Repertory Dance Theatre]]. The [[Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center]] is host to both RWDC and RDT.