Weekend Events
Outdoors Report
— Salt Lake Tribune: How to survive — and have fun — in Moab during Memorial Day weekend
— Salt Lake Tribune: Why is Utah’s Alta Ski Area pushing for a tram up iconic Mount Baldy?
— KSL.com: Crowds, delays expected at Zion National Park this weekend
— KSL.com: Peregrine falcons set up nest in downtown SLC after 3-year hiatus
Concerts
— Spring Festival Concert, Park City Beethoven Festival, Friday, 5:30 p.m., Smith Home at Deer Valley Resort, Park City, $50 minimum donation
— Season Finale: Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2, Utah Symphony, Friday and Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Abravanel Hall, 123 West South Temple, Salt Lake City, $15-$66
— National Choreographic Festival, Ballet West, Friday and Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; also Saturday, 2 p.m., The Eccles Theater, 131 South Main Street, Salt Lake City, $15-$49.50
— Celtic Woman, Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Capitol Theatre, 50 West 200 South, Salt Lake City, $76-$106
— “Sea Melodies: Douglas Morton Live,” Saturday, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m., Loveland Living Planet Aquarium, 12033 South Lone Peak Parkway, Draper,
— Organ concerts, every Saturday, noon, and every Sunday, 2 p.m., Temple Square Assembly Hall, free
Theater
— “9 to 5: The Musical” through May 26, Terrace Plaza Playhouse
— “Mama Mia!” through May 26, Pioneer Theatre Company
— “Next Fall” through May 26, An Other Theater Company
— “The Parent Trap” through May 26, Utah Children’s Theatre
— “Steel Magnolias” through May 26, Covey Center for the Arts
— “Sense and Sensibility” through June 2, Hale Center Theater Orem
— “Spamilton – A Parody – 1776 Trombones” through June 2, Desert Star Playhouse
— “The Tempest” through June 2, Cache Valley Center for the Arts
— “Monty Python’s Spamalot” through June 9, Grand Theatre
— “The Music Man” through June 9, Hale Centre Theatre
— “Spamalot” through June 9, Grand Theatre
— “Other Deseret Cities” through June 10, Kayenta Arts Foundation
— “Bye-Bye Birdie” through June 16, Brigham’s Playhouse
— “Hindsight – An Immersive Play in Downtown SLC” through June 23, Sackerson
— “Tuck Everlasting” through June 23, Hale Centre Theatre
— “Cinderella” through October 19, Tuacahn Amphitheatre
Museum Exhibits
— Desire Lines; Julius von Bismarck: Landscape Paintings, Exhibitions through May 26; Seven Deadly Sins: 2018 Spectacle Art Auction Exhibition through June 9; Out Loud: Mostly Human Exhibition through July 14, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art
— Gabriel Dawe: Plexus no. 29 Exhibition through 2018; To Magnify the Lord: Six Centuries of Art and Devotion Exhibition on view through summer 2019, Brigham Young University Museum of Art
— Russian Stories, Soviet Ideals Exhibition through June 1; Speaking Volumes |Transforming Exhibition through June 2; 94th Annual Spring Salon Exhibition through July 7; Sanctuaries of Mind Exhibition through summer 2019; Round Up: Icons of the West Exhibition through June 19, 2021, Favorite Ladies: Patterns, People, and Play, SMA: Milestones and Memories Exhibitions ongoing, Springville Museum of Art
— Chiura Obata: An American Modern Exhibition through September 2; Spencer Finch: Great Salt Lake and Vicinity ongoing exhibitions: Arts of Africa; American and Regional Art: Mythmaking and Truth-Telling; Chinese Art: Emulation and Innovation; European Art; Ancient Mediterranean Art: Res Mortis; Ancient Mesoamerica; Modern and Contemporary Art: A Fuller Picture; Arts of the Pacific; Greater Merit: The Temple and Image in South Asia, Utah Museum of Fine Arts
— Wasatch Back Student Art Show: Art and the Environment; Mark Crenshaw: In Bloom, Exhibitions through May 27, Kimball Art Center
Et cetra
— Last Friday Gallery Stroll, Friday, 6 – 9 p.m., Park City
— Scandinavian Heritage Festival, Friday and Saturday, Snow College, 150 East College Avenue, Ephraim
— Holi Festival of Colors, Saturday, West Stadium Park, 1650 Jefferson Ave, Ogden
— Moab Arts Festival, Saturday and Sunday, Swanny City Park, 100 West 400 North, Moab
— Antelope Island Cowboy Legends Music and Poetry Festival, Fielding Garr Ranch, 4528 West 1700 South, Syracuse
