Weekend Events
Outdoors Report
Concerts
— Beaver Mountain Music Festival, Friday and Saturday, Beaver Mountain, 40000 East Highway 89, Garden City, $45-$65
— “Songs of Faith: A Musical Fireside,” Southern Utah Heritage Choir, Friday and Saturday, 7 p.m., St. George Tabernacle, Tabernacle and Main Street, Saint George, free
— Concert in the Park with the Beehive Statesmen Barbershop Chorus, Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Assembly Hall on Temple Square, 50 West South Temple, Salt Lake City, free
— Bluegrass Saturday Night, Intermountain Accoustic Music Association, Saturday, 5 p.m., The Gallivan Center, 239 South Main Street, Salt Lake City, free
— Troubador 77, Excellence in the Community Concert Series, Saturday, 7 p.m., Holladay City Hall, 4580 South 2300 East, Salt Lake City, free
— Organ concerts, every Saturday, noon, and every Sunday, 2 p.m., Temple Square Assembly Hall, free
Theater
— “Bye Bye Birdie” through August 18, SCERA Center
— “Law & Disorder – CS: I Did What?!” through August 18, Desert Star Playhouse
— “The Secret Garden” through August 18, Murray Arts in the Park
— “Tell the Story: A Musical Review” through August 18, Riverton Arts Council
— “Shrek: The Musical” through August 18, Timpanogos Arts Foundation
— “Twelfth Night” through August 18, Renaissance Now Theatre and Film
— “Biloxi Blues” through August 19, Neil Simon Festival
— “The Nerd” through August 25, Covey Center for the Arts
— “Thoroughly Modern Millie” through August 25, Draper Historic Theatre
— “Green Day’s American Idiot” through August 27, Good Company Theatre
— “Disney’s Tarzan” through August 31, Pickleville Playhouse
— “Big River” through September 1, Utah Shakespearean Festival
— “Newsies” through September 1, Hale Centre Theatre
— “Oliver!” through September 1, Ziegfeld Theater
— “The Pirates of Penzance” through September 1, CenterPoint Legacy Theatre
— “Wait Until Dark” through September 1, CenterPoint Legacy Theatre
— “Saturday’s Voyeur 2018” through September 2, Salt Lake Acting Company
— “Henry VI Part One” through September 6, Utah Shakespearean Festival
— “The Merchant of Venice” through September 7, Utah Shakespearean Festival
— “H.M.S. Pinafore” through September 8, Off Broadway Theatre
— “The Marvelous Wonderettes” through September 8, Grand Theatre
— “The Merry Wives of Windsor” through September 8, Utah Shakespearean Festival
— “Who Shot Juanito Bandito” through September 8, Pickleville Playhouse
— “Hello, Dolly!” through September 15, St. George Musical Theater
— “Singing in the Rain” through September 15, Terrace Plaza Playhouse
— “Disney’s My Son Pinocchio” through September 22, Hale Centre Theatre
— “Twelfth Night” through September 29, Utah Children’s Theatre
— “An Iliad” through October 9, Utah Shakespearean Festival
— “The Foreigner” through October 13, Utah Shakespearean Festival
— “Othello” through October 13, Utah Shakespearean Festival
— “Matilda: The Musical” through October 18, Tuacahn Amphitheatre
— “Cinderella” through October 19, Tuacahn Amphitheatre
— “The Prince of Egypt” through October 20, Tuacahn Amphitheatre
Museum Exhibits
— Impossible Bouquets: After Jan van Huysum Exhibition through September 1; Buster Graybill: Informalism Exhibition through September 8; Josh Samson: The Identity Project Exhibition through October 13; SLUG Retrospective: 30 Years Under the Influence Exhibition through October 20; Working Hard to be Useless Exhibition through December 29; Utah Museum of Contemporary 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
— Reclaimed: Mixed-media Paintings by Erin Westenskow Berrett Exhibition through September 2; Niki de Saint Phalle: Freedom Would Be Mine Exhibition through Septemer 16, Kimball Art Center
— 45th Annual Utah Quilt Show Exhibition through September 22; Roots and Branches Exhibition through November 30; Beginnings: The Mormon Art & Belief Movement Exhibition through February 16; 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
— Adrien Paci: Albanian Stories, Dana Gluckstein—DIGNITY: Tribes in Transition, Rick Shaefer: Refugee Trilogy, Exhibitions through September 29; 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
Et cetra
— Salt Lake Gallery Stroll, Friday, 6 – 9 p.m., venues vary
— Back to School Carnival, Saturday, 12 – 3 p.m., Trolley Square, 600 South 700 East, Salt Lake City
— Bánh Mì Festival, Vietnamese Community of Utah, Saturday, 10 a.m. – 9 p.m., Carriage Square Shopping Center, 1769 West 4150 South, Taylorsville
— Magna Main Street Arts Festival, Saturday, 10 a.m. – 7:30 p.m., Magna Historic Main Street, Magna
— Third Saturday for Families, Saturday, 1 – 4 p.m., Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Marcia and John Price Museum Building, 410 Campus Center Drive, Salt Lake City
— Helper Arts and Music Festival, through Sunday, 131 South Main Street, Helper
— Ogden Valley Balloon & Artist Festival, through Sunday, Eden Park, 2100 North 5600 East, Eden
