Empowering Women Through Theater | Pygmalion Productions

What Is Pygmalion Productions

We are a Salt Lake City based theater company that produces theater that reflects issues, concerns and shared experiences in the lives of women. In this time of daily loss, struggle and suffering across the world, we want to remind you that the arts can fire minds, warm souls, dazzle and delight. We will want them to be there in times ahead, for us and especially for our children. As Ashley Wheater told us, "Live art, the magic of the theater, is one of the few things that can bring total strangers together in unique harmony, reminding us of our humanity."

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OUR MOST RECENT GRANT APPLICATION WAS DENIED UNDER DEI PROVISIONS

For more than 20 years, PYGmalion Theatre Company has been honored to receive support from the State of Utah through the Utah Department of Arts and Museums. Recently, we were notified that our grant application has been denied because “it appears to be in conflict with Utah House Bill 261 Equal Opportunity Initiatives.” In other words, our mission—to produce plays that give voice to women—has been deemed discriminatory. We remain steadfast in our commitment to our mission, and we know our patrons share these values. Please support us with a donation at the link above.

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TICKETS AVAILABLE FOR INDIVIDUAL SHOWS AND SEASON PACKAGES. You can order online at www.arttixx.org or by phone 801-355-2787. All shows are at the Black Box inside Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center at 138 West Broadway (300 South) Salt Lake City, Utah 84101. There is metered street parking and several pay parking lots adjacent to the theater.

Our 2025-2026 Season

November 7-22, 2025 Tiny Beautiful Things a solid, heart-heavy play based on the book by Cheryl Strayed and tackles death, grief, birth, sex, friendship, loss, and above all, love with humor and grace. February 6-21, 2026 Becky Nurse of Salem is a contemporary comedy by Sarah Ruhl about an ordinary but strong-willed grandmother just trying to get by in post-Obama America by dabbling in witchcraft. May 1-16 Plan C is a new comedic tragecy by Andrea Peterson about one woman's battle for autonomy in a world that seems hell-bent on deciding who she should be—from the roles she’s expected to play to the biology she never asked to negotiate with.

ROSE EXPOSED 2017

By Marva MatchAugust 22, 2017Pygmalion News

Now celebrating its 6th year of exploration, hoopla and provocative entertainment – not to mention the 20th anniversary of the Rose Wagner itself! – Rose Exposed is one of Salt Lake’s most innovative events featuring a new short work created around a unifying theme by each of the six resident companies. Rose Exposed…The Sky is

Radio West: “The Women Who Measured the Cosmos”

By Marva MatchApril 25, 20172016-2017 Season, Media Coverage

Tuesday, we’re talking about the 19th-century women who measured the cosmos. Science journalist Dava Sobel is among our guests. Her latest book is about the women employed by Harvard Observatory to serve as “human computers.” They did calculations based on the observations of their male counterparts, but became astronomical pioneers in their own right. Pygmalion Theatre Company is staging a play based on the life of one of these remarkable women, which gives us an excuse to talk about them and discoveries.

Dava Sobel is a former science reporter for the New York Times. She’s the co-author of six books and the author of five, including her newest, The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars

Mark Fossen directed Pygmalion Theatre Company’s production of Lauren Gunderson’s play Silent Sky. It’s about the life of Henrietta Leavitt, an astronomer at Harvard Observatory in the 19th century.

Hannah Minshew plays Henrietta Leavitt in Pygmalion Theatre Company’s production of Silent Sky.

Salt Lake theater company unveils ‘Silent Sky,’ another ‘Hidden Figures’ story

By Marva MatchApril 24, 20172016-2017 Season

Lauren Gunderson’s play “Silent Sky,” opening this week in a regional premiere at Pygmalion Productions, seems grounded in the cultural zeitgeist as it tells a sweeping, starlit story about another hidden figure in science.

“Sky” is based on the groundbreaking discoveries of Henrietta Leavitt and her female colleagues, who in the early 20th century were employed with other women as human “computers” at Harvard College Observatory, charting the stars for a renowned male astronomer.

Henrietta isn’t allowed to use the sophisticated telescope. But her irrepressible ambition drives her to explore how to calculate the size of the universe based on the variable brightness of stars, while she’s negotiating the scale of other relationships in her life.

“Following this curiosity was not easy,” Henrietta tells her male boss, who has a crush on her. “I had to insist, which requires a dedicated desire unmatched by reason, which is called passion.”