Off Broadway Theatre Inc. — Attraction in Salt Lake City

To paraphrase what even the OBT staff themselves say:

If you go to the first couple of weeks of a skit, the show is going to be sub par. Not sure if it is short rehearsal times due to the schedules they keep for their shows or just not being used to the new skit, but it takes them a few times to get into the swing of it.

With that said, it's obvious that if you want to get the most out of it, you should go half way through, or about a month to a month and a half after they start showing a certain skit. By this point they are comfortable with the script and the rest of the staff(sound effects, etc.) are more practiced as well.

Now then, if you want the most unrestricted improv from the skit, go the last couple of weeks. They drop a few constraints in the last showings of a skit and really let loose. At this point the improv is a little more adult oriented(not outright sexual or explicit but definitely not something the kids will/should understand).

Aside from that, most of my complaints actually comes from the audience. Sometimes the hecklers can get really bad and they never get the hint when the actors pretty much straight up tell them to shut the heck up.

Tickets are expensive as some others have pointed out but running a theater isn't cheap and because they keep the concessions cheap(except for the red vines!) they have to make up for that through ticket sales. Seriously though, the concessions are cheap. $1 for...

This is such a great place for family entertainment. 3 out of 4 in our family has season passes which we renew every Christmas and this year, we're getting my daughter's friend one as well. The founder, Eric Jenson is such a nice guy. He is a great writer and actor and he is hilarious (so are the rest of the actors, although, I do have my faves) I will say that the plays are not quite the same if he's not acting in them or had a hand in writing them. The Halloween and Christmas plays are always my very favorite to attend. I love how they involve the audience in their shows and occasionally improv lines and antics out of the blue which only enhances the comedy of their performance. The prices are extremely low for a playhouse and you can find BOGOF coupons in the entertainment coupon books which is an ingenious marketing tactic to promote their business and eventually sell the season passes but if you go up onstage and let them sing to you on your b-day, they'll give you a BOGOF pass! The whole cast does a meet and greet after each show and all are very friendly. BTW, along with your yearly passes, you get a free popcorn for each play and 1 free pass a year to attend their improv show Laughing stock. I can't say enough about OBT, we will continue to purchase passes every year and take other family members with us hopefully convincing them to purchase season passes as well and continue a great...

Little Shop of Horrors was fun, as it usually is. You can tell that a lot of time and effort went into this performance. Having live music was an extra special touch. The sets and props were especially impressive and creative. You definitely get the tight knit community theater vibes here, lots of friends and family members in the audience, the MC getting the group to participate in singing Happy birthday to patrons celebrating a birthday, taking multiple humorous jabs at friends in the audience for cheap laughs before the show. My only real complaints are 1, the popcorn; it was terrible. Old, dry, and slightly burnt. Nothing like what you'd expect. Perhaps I got a bad batch, so you be the judge, but Irondale I would not get it again. 2) we sat in the back, cause that's where we like to sit, and it was a huge mistake. We were close to the audio "booth" which is not enclosed. This, in and if itself is not a problem, but when you have a sound booth operator that talks frequently during the show, has a 2-way radio making noises regularly, and who laughs quite loudly and for an unusually extended period for each joke, right behind your head the whole show, it's...