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| Updated: 6:38 p.m. The old 19th Ward meetinghouse in Salt Lake City has always been a bit of an architectural oddity. A landmark in the Marmalade District since it was completed in 1892, it’s believed to be the only Latter-day Saint meetinghouse with an onion dome. After decades as a house of worship, the building at 168 W. 500 North has been home to Salt Lake Acting Company since 1982, housing two theaters, rehearsal space, dressing rooms, a box office and more. And now, a remodel is adding more perhaps unexpected features — like animal-print carpeting and over-the-top restrooms. When...

Last week, Salt Lake Acting Company launched The Amberlee Fund: Accessibility Elevated, a $1 million capital campaign to completely redesign their theater to make the space more accessible. Fans of SLAC know that the acting company’s one-of-a-kind venue is part of the experience. Located in a 130-year old meeting house for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the physical space told a uniquely Utah story: a religious gathering space in the 19th century became an artistic one in the 20th and 21st. (It helps that the boundary-pushing, edgy plays SLAC tends to produce are about as ...