Outdoors Report
— Salt Lake Tribune: Feds shift gears, now may let major highway cut across southern Utah tortoise preserve
— Salt Lake Tribune: A $1.5 million deal will keep Utah’s Zion Narrows open to hikers forever
— KSL.com: Beaver Mountain opens after storm drops nearly 30 inches of fresh powder
— KSL.com: Utah wildlife officials announce changes to state fishing records
— KSL.com: Herbert, 3 Utah lawmakers push back as Illinois senator again proposes ‘red rock’ bill
New Films
— Cats: Tribune review
— Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: Deseret News review
Concerts
— 26th Annual Winter Solstice Concert, Friday, 7:30 p.m., St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral, 231 East 100 South, Salt Lake City, free
— Bar J Wranglers Cowboy Christmas Show, Friday, 7 p.m., Woods Cross High School, 600 West 2200 South, Woods Cross, $20-$25
— “Christmas with the Celts,” Friday, 8 p.m., Egyptian Theatre, 328 Main Street, Park City, $39-$65
— “Caleb Chapman’s Crescent Christmas,” Friday and Saturday, 7 p.m., SCERA Center, 745 South State Street, Orem, $12-$14
— “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix™ in Concert,” Utah Symphony, Friday and Saturday, 7 p.m., Abravanel Hall, 123 West South Temple, Salt Lake City, $39-$102
— Alta Holiday Music Concert 2019, Alta Arts, Saturday, 7 p.m., Our Lady of the Snows Center, 10189 East State Highway 210, Alta, free
— The Bar J Wranglers Christmas Show 2019, Cache Arts, Saturday, 1:30 and 7:30 p.m., The Ellen Eccles Theatre, 43 South Main, Logan, $17-$30
— “The Nutcracker,” Mountain West Ballet, Friday and Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; also Saturday, 4 p.m., The Theater at Mount Jordan, 9351 South Mountaineer Lane, Sandy, $12-$16
— “A Celtic Christmas,” Utopia Early Music, Saturday, 8 p.m. and Sunday, 5 p.m., St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral, 231 East 100 South, Salt Lake City, $10-$15
— Christmas on Temple Square, through December 23, various times and venues, Temple Square, 50 West North Temple, Salt Lake City, free
— “The Nutcracker,” Ballet West, through December 26, Capitol Theatre, 50 West 200 South, Salt Lake City, $34-$129
— Organ concerts, every Saturday, noon, and every Sunday, 2 p.m., Assembly Hall, Temple Square, 50 West South Temple, Salt Lake City, free
Theater
— “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever” through December 21, Old Barn Community Theatre
— “A Charlie Brown Christmas, December 21, Eccles Theater
— “A Christmas Carol on the Air” through December 21, Simon Fest Theatre Company
— “Elf the Musical” through December 21, Tuacahn Amphitheater
— “The Holiday Follies” through December 21, On Pitch Performing Arts
— “Holiday Inn” through December 21, CenterPoint Legacy Theatre
— “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” through December 21, Empress Theatre
— “It’s a Wonderful Life” through December 21, Hopebox Theatre
— “It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play” through December 21, CenterPoint Legacy Theatre
— “It’s a Wonderful Life Radio Play” through December 21, Covey Center for the Arts
— “Plaid Tidings” through December 21, Vernal Theatre
— “The Play the Goes Wrong” through December 21, Pioneer Theatre Company
— “The SantaLand Diaries by David Sedaris” through December 21, An Other Theater Company
— “This Bird of Dawning” through December 21, Eccles Theater
— “A Tuna Christmas” through December 21, Lehi City Arts
— “A Christmas Carol” through December 23, Hale Center Theater Orem
— “A Fairly Potter Christmas Carol” through December 23, Ziegfeld Theater
— “Juanito Bandito’s Christmas Carol 2019” through December 23, Grand Theatre
— “A Christmas Carol” through December 26, Hale Centre Theatre
— “A Christmas Carol” through December 28, Brigham’s Playhouse
— “It’s a Wondrous Life” through December 28, Off Broadway Theatre
— “Savior of the World” through December 28, Temple Square
— “Pete the Cat” through December 30, Salt Lake Acting Company
— “A Christmas Carol: Part II – Scrooged Again” through January 4, Desert Star Playhouse
— “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” through January 11, Utah Children’s Theatre
— “Seussical” through January 11, Hale Centre Theatre
Museum Exhibits
— 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
— 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
— Rend the Heavens: Intersections of the Human and Divine Exhibition through January; Supermarket: Pop Art and 1960s America Exhibition through March 28; Becoming America Exhibition through summer 2021, Brigham Young University Museum of Art
Et cetra
— “Light the Night” A Winter Solstice Luminary Festival Event, Friday, 5:30 – 8 p.m., St. George Art Museum, 47 East 200 North, Saint George
— Third Saturday for Families: Conceptual Art, Saturday, 1 – 4 p.m., Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Marcia and John Price Museum Building, 410 Campus Center Drive, Salt Lake City
— Winter Solstice Celebration, Saturday, 9 a.m. – 12 p.m., Red Butte Garden, 300 Wakara Way, Salt Lake City
