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Season announcement dates

Following Pioneer Theatre Company’s 2012-2013 season announcement on May 1, Plan-B Theatre Company and Hale Centre Theatre West Valley will debut their seasons of shows in mid-May. CenterPoint Legacy Theatre, Hale Center Theater Orem and the Utah Valley University Department of Theatrical Arts will make their announcements in June.

The following theater companies have previously announced their slates of shows:

Brigham Young University Department of Theatre: “A Second Birth,” “The Phantom of the Opera,” “The Cleverest Thief,” “A Wrinkle in Time,” “The Servant of Two Masters”; Theater for young audiences: “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” “Henry V”

The Grand Theatre: “Into the Woods,” “Voice of the Prairie,” “Death of a Salesman,” “La Cage aux Folles”

University of Utah Department of Theatre: “Vernon God Little,” “’Tis Pity,” “A Flea in Her Ear,” “Spring Awakening,” “Geography Club,” “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” “Reasons to Be Pretty,” “The Eccentrics”

Weber State University Department of Performing Arts: “Charm,” “Lucky Stiff,” “The Will Rogers Follies,” “The Comedy of Oedipus”