Media Center

Welcome to West Valley Arts's online press room. This information is available to the media covering productions and events at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center and the West Valley Performing Arts Center. Unless otherwise noted, all images on this website are the property of West Valley Arts. 

​About: ​The West Valley Arts and Cultural Foundation is a 501c3 nonprofit arts organization that works in conjunction with the West Valley City Division of Arts and Culture to provide a variety of arts programming for residents of West Valley City and the Wasatch Front. West Valley Arts’ mission is to create opportunities to learn, experience and celebrate art, culture and community.

Since 2004, West Valley Arts has supported West Valley's rich history of public art, festivals, concerts, cultural programming, and theatre. We operate the Utah Cultural Celebration Center, a 10,000 sq. ft. community event center showing rotating art exhibits, community concerts, Greek theatre, festivals, and more. At the UCCC, we pride ourselves on being the premier location for all cultures in Salt Lake County to celebrate their events. 
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With a long history of community theater programming at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center, West Valley City decided to launch a professional theater program at the West Valley Performing Arts Center in 2019. Shows are produced using local professional talent as well as the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival. 

Press Clippings

Find Out What Woods Are for With the West Valley Arts Production of Into the Woods - Front Row Reviewsers Paril 2023
Stay on the Path To See Into the Woods at West Valley Arts - Utah Theatre Bloggers Association April 2023
Winners Announced for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Salt Lake City Awards - BroadwayWorld March 2023
UCCC’s “Body,Land” Ranges Through Emotions​ - 15 Bytes January 2023
Transformation, Physical and Spiritual, at the UCCC - 15 Bytes January 2023
Best of Utah Theater in 2022: Salt Lake City BWW Reviewer's Favorite Shows - December 2022
Pennsylvania and Utah: Creative Aging - December 2022
Finally, A Sense of Place  - November 2022
Think Water Utah, a Utah Humanities Statewide Project, Receives 2022 Outstanding Achievement Award 
from the Utah Division of State History - November 2022
AAUW Stages an Uncommon Celebration of Utah Women Artists - 15 Bytes September 2022
Hungry for More After Little Shop of Horrors at West Valley Arts - Utah Theatre Bloggers September 2022  
Kick-Off Spooky Season with the West Valley Arts Production of Little Shop of Horrors - Front Row Reviewers September 2022
Face of Sculpture Proves Its Worth at XVIII - 15 Bytes July 2022
Review: In The Heights at West Valley Arts is a Real Blast - BroadwayWorld July 2022
West Valley Arts' IN THE HEIGHTS Opens Tonight - BroadwayWorld June 2022
Artist Brings the Variety of India’s Cultures to Utah Exhibit - The Salt Lake Tribune June 2022
West Valley Art’s Exhilarating Little Women at the West Valley Performing Arts Center Reminds Us How “Astonishing” Life Can Be - Front Row Reviewers Utah April 2022
‘Little Women’ to be performed at the West Valley Performing Arts Center April 21- May 14  - The City Journals April 2022
UCCC’s Tree Exhibit Has Deep Roots and Fruitful Branches - March 2022
Laugh So Hard You Cry With a New Play in West Valley - Good Things Utah March 2022
​An Enchanting Beauty and the Beast in West Valley - Utah Theatre Bloggers, January 2022
 After 24 years, musical love story ‘Gold Mountain’ will have its world debut in West Valley City - The Salt Lake Tribune Oct 2021
UCCC’s Textile Show Weaves Dimensions of Delight - September 7, 2021
Attend the Tale of Sweeney Todd at West Valley Arts - August 2021
Take Time to Cut Loose With Footloose in West Valley - Utah Theatre Bloggers Association July 2021​
Everybody Cut Lose, Footloose! - Good Things Utah July 2021
Face of Utah Sculpture XVII Declares a Triumphant Return to Form - 15 Bytes July 2021 
West Valley Arts Brings the Music of ‘Fats’ Waller to Life With Ain’t Misbehavin' - Broadway World April 2021

Press Releases

October 21, 2022 - ​West Valley Arts’ Annual Día de Los Muertos / Day of the Dead Celebration Returns In-Person After One Year Hiatus
​January 21, 2020 - Bookworks and City of Hope Among New Exhibits at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center 
Reviewers
Interested in reviewing one of our shows?  Contact our Theatrical Programs Manager, Vanessa Olson here or calling 801-965-5140.

Assets

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Requests

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Contact

Jeff Olsen
Executive Director
(801) 965-5102
jeff.olsen@wvc-ut.gov