Outdoors Report
— Salt Lake Tribune: Brighton to be first Utah ski area to open Tuesday, while brown slopes complicate others’ season debuts
— KSL.com: Zion National Park is now 100 years old — it’s feeling its age
— KSL.com: How Zion National Park helped put Utah at ‘center of scenic America’ 100 years ago
— KSL.com: Visitors poured record $9.75 billion into Utah last year
New Films
— A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: Tribune review
— The Irishman: Tribune review
Concerts
— “Benny Golson Jazz Music Brought to Life at SUU,” Friday, 7:30 p.m., Southern Utah University, 351 West University Boulevard, Cedar City, free
— Browning String Trio, Friday, 7:30 p.m., Browning Center for the Performing Arts, Weber State University, Ogden, $4.50-$7
— Percussion Ensemble, Friday, 7 p.m., Noorda Center for the Performing Arts, Utah Valley University, 800 West University Parkway, Orem, $5-$10
— Ballroom Dance in Concert, Friday and Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; also, Saturday, 2 p.m., Noorda Center for the Performing Arts, Utah Valley University, 800 West University Parkway, Orem, $10-$16
— 2019 Bells on Temple Square Holiday Concert, Friday and Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Tabernacle, Temple Square, 50 West North Temple, Salt Lake City, free, but tickets required
— “A Night with Stephen Sondheim,” Taylorsville Arts Council, Friday and Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Taylorsville Senior Center, 4743 South Plymouth View Drive, Salt Lake City
— “The Nutcracker,” Barlow Ballet, Friday and Saturday, 7 p.m., Covey Center for the Arts, 425 West Center Street, Provo, $12.50-$20
— “The Rite of Spring,” Utah Symphony, Friday and Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Abravanel Hall, 123 West South Temple, Salt Lake City, $10-$92
— “Sounds Familiar,” Repertory Dance Theatre, Friday and Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Jeanne Wagner Theatre, 138 West 300 South, Salt Lake City, $30
— Frank Vignola & Friends, Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Capitol Theatre, 50 West 200 South, Salt Lake City, $24.50
— “Continuum,” through November 25, Randall L. Jones Theatre, Southern Utah University, 351 West Center Street, Cedar City, $5-$10
— Organ concerts, every Saturday, noon, and every Sunday, 2 p.m., Assembly Hall, Temple Square, 50 West South Temple, Salt Lake City, free
Theater
— “Ah, Wilderness!” through November 23, Westminster College
— “Alice in Wonderland” through November 23, Utah Children’s Theatre
— “Disney’s The Lion King” through November 23, Ziegfeld Theater
— “Doubt” through November 23, An Other Theater Company An Other Theater Company
— “Frozen Jr.” through November 23, Syracuse City Arts Council
— “The House of Edgar Allen Poe” through November 23, Weber State University
— “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer” through November 23, Eccles Theater
— “Thoroughly Modern Millie” through November 23, Hale Center Theater Orem
— “Two-Headed” through November 23, Pygmalion Theater Company
— “A Wilder Night: Three One-Act Plays by Thornton Wilder” through November 23, Brigham Young University
— “Annie Get Your Gun” through November 25, Eagle Mountain Arts
— “A Chorus Line” through November 30, The Stage Door Theater
— “Much Ado About Nothing” through December 7, Brigham Young University
— “Holiday Inn” through December 21, CenterPoint Legacy Theatre
— “It’s a Wondrous Life” through December 28, Off Broadway Theatre
— “Savior of the World” through December 28, Temple Square
Museum Exhibits
— Spencer Finch: Great Salt Lake and Vicinity, Power Couples: The Pendant Format in Art Exhibitions through December 8; DE | MARCATION:A Survey of Contemporary Photography in Utah Exhibition through January 12; Paintings from the Smithsonian American Art Museum Exhibition through October 4, 2020; 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
— Abstraction is Just a Word, But I Use It. Exhibition through January 4; Rachel Henriksen: Knew/New, Justin Watson: A Farewell to Images, Exhibitions through January 18; Kelsey Harrison: Never an hour for thought Exhibition through January 28, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art
— Annual Christmas Lamb Art Show Exhibition through January 4; Ars Moriendi: The Art of Death and Dying, 34th Annual Spiritual & Religious Art of Utah Exhibitions through January 15; Sketchy: Drawings and Studies from the Permanent Collection Exhibition through April 25; SELF: Explorations of Identity Exhibition through May 16; 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
— Creative Journeys, 1401, Exhibitions through January 5, Kimball Art Center
— Rend the Heavens: Intersections of the Human and Divine Exhibition through January; Becoming America Exhibition through summer 2021, Brigham Young University Museum of Art
Et cetra
— Dickens’ Christmas Festival, Friday and Saturday, Salt Lake County Equestrian Park & Event Center, 11400 South 2200 West, South Jordan
