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Since 1991, Plan-B has developed and produced unique and socially conscious theatre.

Plan-B operates under a Small Professional Theatre agreement with Actors' Equity Association (AEA) and is a member of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for the American theatre.

In 2001 we were the first company worldwide licensed to produce Moises Kaufman/Tectonic Theater Project's THE LARAMIE PROJECT.  In 2002 we were the first company to stage Susan Miller's one-woman play MY LEFT BREAST in English with an actress other than the playwright.  In 2003 we introduced HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH to Utah and launched AND THE BANNED PLAYED ON, our annual fundraiser celebrating the First Amendment.  In 2004 we opened our unique version of George Orwell's ANIMAL FARM on the one-year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq and launched our annual in-24-hours-create-five-10-minute-plays event SLAM.  In 2005 we toured the world premiere of Leslea Newman's A LETTER TO HARVEY MILK to Der Lesbisch-schwules Kulturhaus in Frankfurt, Germany; In 2006 we toured the world premiere of Aden Ross' AMERIKA to Toronto's Fringe Festival.

In 2007, we:
- became the resident theatre company of the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center
- became only the third Equity company in Salt Lake City (the fifth in Utah)
- became the first Utah-based theatre company in history to transfer one of its own productions off-Broadway (the world premiere of Carol Lynn Pearson's FACING EAST), which also toured to San Francisco
- were the first company worldwide licensed to produce Scott Brown/Anthony King's GUTENBERG! THE MUSICAL!
- received Equality Utah's Allies For Equality Award
- Mary Dickson's EXPOSED was nominated for the American Theatre Critics Assocation's/Steinberg New Play Award for the best new play produced outside of New York and will be independently produced at New End Theatre in Hampstead, England (an off-West End theatre) in the summer of 2008
- Deseret Morning News named GUTENBERG! THE MUSICAL! 'Best Comedy 2007' and EXPOSED 'Best Drama 2007'
- Ivan Lincoln, theatre critic for more than 20 years for the Deseret Morning News, retired in December. Of his ten favorite dramas seen in that time, three were Plan-B productions:  MOLLY SWEENEY, THE LARAMIE PROJECT and FACING EAST
- The Salt Lake Tribune listed Jerry Rapier, Producing Director, sixth on its inaugural list of "Utah's 25 Most Influential People/Top 25 Cultural Power Brokers"

General Press:
Slug Magazine, December 2007
Selective Echo, September 2007