Outdoor Notes
— Tribune: Utah Hike of the Week: Whale Rock — Canyonlands National Park
— For the latest wildlife news and information and the fishing report visit the DWR website
Weekend Events
New Films
— City of Gold: Tribune review
— I Saw the Light: Tribune review
Concerts
— Aspen Winds, Boulder Arts Council, Friday, 7 p.m., Escalante High School, 800 Utah 12, Escalante, free
— Local Concert Series, Intermountain Accoustic Music Association, Friday, 7:30 p.m., South Valley Unitarian Universalist Society, 6876 South Highland Drive, $5-$10
— “Songs of the Spirit,” orchestra and choirs, Friday, 7:30 p.m., Southern Utah University, Heritage Center Theatre, 105 North 100 East, Cedar City,
$5-$10
— St. George Chamber Singers, Friday, 7:30 p.m., Dolores Dore Eccles Fine Arts Center, 255 South 700 East, Saint George, free
— SALT Contemporary Dance, Friday and Saturday 7:30 p.m.; also Saturday, 2 p.m., Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, 138 West 300 South, Salt Lake City, $15-$20
— Senior Concert 1, University of Utah Dance, Friday and Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Alice Sheets Marriott Center for Dance, The University of Utah, 330 South 1500 East, Salt Lake City, $8-$12
— “Beauty and the Beast,” Ballet West, through Sunday, Janet Quinney Lawson Capitol Theatre, 50 West 200 South, Salt Lake City, $15-$35
— NOVA Chamber Music Series, Sunday, 3 p.m., Libby Gardner Hall, University of Utah, 1375 East Presidents Circle, Salt Lake City, $20
— Organ concerts, every Saturday, noon, and every Sunday, 2 p.m., Temple Square Assembly Hall, free
Theater
— “Mother Courage and Her Children” through April 1, Brigham Young University
— “Picnic” through April 2, Grand Theatre, Tribune review
— “The Pirate Queen” through April 2, Hale Centre Theatre
— “Short Attention Span Theatre” through April 2, Utah Valley University
— “Cowgirls” through April 9, Pioneer Theatre Company,Tribune review
— “Gypsy: A Musical Fable” through April 9, Westminster College
— “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” through April 9, Hale Center Theater Orem
— “Kingdom of Heaven” through April 10, Plan-B Theatre Company
— “Greece Is the Word” through April 16, Off Broadway Theatre
— “Amelia Bedelia” through April 23, Utah Children’s Theatre
— “The Little Mermaid” through April 23, Ziegfeld Theater
— “ The FrontRunner Express: A Clue-less Pyramid Scheme” through June 4, Desert Star Playhouse
Museum Exhibits
— Illuminations of Africa’s Wildlife: Its Beauty, Its Struggle to Survive Exhibition through April 24, Kimball Art Center
— e.g.: Kehinde Wiley, “Smile” Exhibition through April 30; Branding the American West: Paintings and Films 1900-1950 Exhibition through August 13; Gabriel Dawe: Plexus no. 29 Exhibition on view through 2016; Shaping America: Selected Works from the Permanent Collection of American Art Exhibition through March 2018, Brigham Young University Museum of Art
— David Brothers: Rolithica;Paul Crow: Here; Yoshua Okón: Oracle, Exhibitions through April 30; Ideologue Exhibition through July 23, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art
— Here, There, and Everywhere; Middle | Nowhere, Exhibitions through May 15; Voices: People, Places and Ideas in Utah Art Exhibition through June 1, 2016; Soviet Impressionist Paintings  Exhibition ongoing, Springville Museum of Art
Et cetra
— First Friday Art Stroll, Friday, 6 – 9 p.m., Historic 25th Street, Ogden
— Baby Animal Days, Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m., American West Heritage Center, 4025 South Highway 89-91, Wellsville
— Bulbs and Blooms Festival, through April 30, Red Butte Garden, 300 Wakara Way, Salt Lake City
