Weekend Event
Outdoors Report
— Salt Lake Tribune: It’s quiet in Zion National Park as the shutdown drags on, but the tourists are expected to return this holiday weekend
— KSL.com: Cisco enthusiast ready for best opportunity to catch fish unique to Bear Lake
— KSL.com: New bear hunts approved for 2019-21 hunting seasons
— KSL.com: Children in Utah classrooms get a chance to raise rainbow trout from eggs
— KSL.com: 4 beautiful Utah destinations for camping in the winter
New Films
— Glass: KSL.com review
Concerts
— Booker T. Jones, Ogden Friends of Acoustic Music, Friday, 7 p.m., Peery’s Egyptian Theater, 2415 Washington Blvd, Ogden, $22-$25
— Grand Persian Music Concert, Jaanan Ensemble, Friday, 7 p.m., Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, 138 West 300 South, Salt Lake City, $20-$50
— Mozart’s Symphony No. 39, Utah Symphony, Friday, 7:30 p.m., St. Mary’s Church of the Assumption, 1505 West White Pine Canyon Road, Park City, $15-$40
— North Indian Classical Music Concert, Friday, 7 – 9 p.m., Wasatch Commons, 1411 Utah Street, Salt Lake City, $10
— Music by Beethoven, Tower, and more, NOVA Chamber Music Series, Sunday, 3 p.m., Libby Gardner Hall, University of Utah, 1375 East Presidents Circle, Salt Lake City, $18-$20
— Organ concerts, every Saturday, noon, and every Sunday, 2 p.m., Assembly Hall, Temple Square, 50 West North Temple, Salt Lake City, free
Theater
— “Die Fledermaus” through January 19, Utah Valley University
— “The Lion in Winter” through January 19, Pioneer Theatre Company
— “Much Ado About Nothing” through January 19, Grassroots Shakespeare Company
— “Nunsense” through January 19, Vernal Theatre
— “James and the Giant Peach” through January 26, Cedar Valley Community Theatre
— “The Laramie Project” through January 26, Utah Valley University
— “The Snake Prince” through January 26, Treehouse Museum, Ogden
— “The Little Prince” through January 27, Utah Opera
— “School of Rock the Next Generation” through February 2, Ziegfeld Theater
— “Spamalot” through February 2, Empress Theatre
— “A Streetcar Named Desire” through February 2, CenterPoint Legacy Theatre
— “The Wizard of Oz” through February 2, Hale Centre Theatre
— “I Do! I Do!” through February 9, Terrace Plaza Playhouse
— “The Odd Couple” through February 9, Hale Center Theater Orem
— “Lend Me a Tenor” through February 16, CenterPoint Legacy Theatre
— “The King and I” through February 23, St. George Musical Theater
— “Robyn Hood” through February 23, Off Broadway Theatre
— “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder” through March 16, Hale Centre Theatre
Museum Exhibits
— Lori Damiano: Lord I: The Records Keeper Exhibit through January 18; Rendezvous Exhibit through January 26; Whoop Dee Doo: Matt Roche and Jaimie Warren Exhibition through March 3, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art
— Beginnings: The Mormon Art & Belief Movement Exhibition through February 16; Magic and Machine: Fantasy and Sci-Fi in Utah Art Exhibition through August 3; 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
— Pulitzer Prize Photographs Exhibition through March 3; Electronic Gallery: 4.1 Miles Exhibition through March 23; Gabriel Dawe: Plexus no. 29 Exhibition through 2018; To Magnify the Lord: Six Centuries of Art and Devotion Exhibition on view through summer 2019; Danae Mattes: Where the River Widens, Patrick Dougherty: Windswept Exhibitions through October 19, 2019, Brigham Young University Museum of Art
— salt 14: Yang Yongliang Exhibition through June 2, 2019; 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
Et cetra
— Salt Lake Gallery Stroll, Friday, 6 – 9 p.m., venues vary
— HOF Germanfest, Friday and Saturday, 11 a.m. – 10 p.m., Golden Spike Event Center, 1000 North 1200 West, Ogden
— Superhero Saturday, Saturday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., Thanksgiving Point, 3003 North Thanksgiving Way, Lehi
— Third Saturday for Families: Collage Landscapes, Saturday, 1 – 4 p.m., Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Marcia and John Price Museum Building, 410 Campus Center Drive, Salt Lake City