Casual Friday: Weekend Events & Outdoors Report

Weekend Event

Outdoors Report

— Salt Lake TribunePut more funding toward safeguarding air, land and water, Utahns say

— KSL.com: Utah Senate committee gives tentative nod to federal designation in Wasatch canyons

— KSL.comBiologists seek to cleanse streams and repopulate endangered native Utah trout

New Films 

— A Tube to Cuba: Deseret News review 

Concerts

— Beautiful Dreamer, Davis Arts Council, Friday, 7 p.m., Alpine Church, 254 West 2675 North, Layton, free

— 20th Century Russians, Timpanogos Symphony Orchestra, Friday and Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Timberline Middle School, 500 West Canyon Crest Road, Alpine, $9-$12

— Casablanca in Concert, Utah Symphony, Friday and Saturday, 7 p.m., Abravanel Hall, 123 West South Temple, Salt Lake City, $15-$86

— 3hattrio: American Desert Folk Music, Kayenta Arts, Saturday, 7 p.m., Center for the Arts at Kayenta, 881 Coyote Gulch Ct, Ivins, $25

— Hindustani Musical Instrument Concert, Saturday, 6:30 p.m., India Cultural Center of Utah, 1142 West South Jordan Parkway, South Jordan, $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  

— “Chicago” through March 2, The Stage Door Theater

— “The Crucible” through March 2, Kensington Theatre

— “First Date” through March 2, Grand Theatre 

— “Joesph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” through March 2, Ellen Eccles Theatre, Logan

— “Noises Off” through March 2, Sandy Arts Guild

— “Once” through March 2, Pioneer Theatre Company

— “An Evening with Two Awful Men” through March 3, Plan-B Theatre Company 

— “Company” through March 3, University of Utah

— “The Importance of Being Earnest” through March 4, Highland City Arts Council

— “The Spitfire Grill” through March 4, Draper Historic Theatre

— “Footloose” through March 9, American Fork Community Theater

— “Wait!” through March 9, Pygmalion Theater Company 

— “The Cake” through March 10, Salt Lake Acting Company

— “Men on Boats” through March 10, University of Utah

— “Blithe Spirit” through March 16, Covey Center for the Arts 

— “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder” through March 16, Hale Centre Theatre

— “Mamma Mia!” through March 16, Empress Theatre 

— “Mamma Mia!” through March 16, Ziegfeld Theater

— “Camelot” through March 23, Brigham’s Playhouse

— “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” through March 23, An Other Theater Company

— “My Big Fat Utah Wedding: Bigger! Fatter! Utah-ier!” through March 23, Desert Star Playhouse

— “An American in Paris” through April 6, Hale Centre Theatre

— “Urinetown: The Musical” through April 6, Terrace Plaza Playhouse

— “Disney’s Newsies” through April 20, Hale Center Theater Orem

Museum Exhibits

 Jacob Haupt: Ultra Force Exhibition through March 2; Whoop Dee Doo: Matt Roche and Jaimie Warren Exhibition through March 3, Greg Caldwell: Neighborhood Exhibition through March 16; Lenka Clayton: Under These ConditionsMike Simi: Getting’ By Exhibitions through May 11; Shady Acres Exhibition through May 25, Utah Museum of Contemporary 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 WidensPatrick Dougherty: Windswept Exhibitions through October 19, 2019, Brigham Young University Museum of Art

 47th Annual Utah All-State High School Art Show Exhibition through March 22; 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

— Cold Places: Photographs by Sue FloodPaul Crow: On Ice Exhibitions through April 7, Kimball Art Center

 salt 14: Yang Yongliang Exhibition through June 2, 2019; Spencer Finch: Great Salt Lake and Vicinity; ongoing exhibitions: Arts of AfricaAmerican 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

First Friday Art Stroll, Friday, 6 – 9 p.m., Historic 25th Street, Ogden

46th Annual Echoing Traditional Ways USU Powwow, Friday and Saturday, USU Nelsen Fieldhouse, 135 US-89, Logan

— LDS Film Festival, Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m., SCERA Center, 745 South State Street, Orem

Moab International Film Festival, through Sunday, Star Hall, 159 East Center Street, Moab

— Tumbleweeds Film Festival, Utah Film Center, through Sunday, Library Square, 200 East 400 South, Salt Lake City