Weekend Events
Outdoors Report
— Tribune: Timpanogos Cave to close a month early, so crews can build new visitor center
— Tribune: A southern Utah county that fought monument designations is now eager to make money off them
— KSL.com: State officials see spike in number of quagga-infested boats in northern Utah
— KSL.com: ‘The last straw’: Canyonlands park staff close popular False Kiva over latest vandalism incident
— KSL.com: 76-year-old Utah man completes 1,000th hike up Mount Timpanogos
Concerts
— Deseret String Quartet, Friday, 7 p.m., Madsen Recital Hall, Harris Fine Arts Center, Brigham Young University, Campus Drive & Heritage Drive, Provo, $13
— Changing Lanes Experience: Classic Motown, Excellence in the Community Concert Series, Friday, 7:30 p.m., The Gallivan Center, 239 South Main Street, Salt Lake City, free
— Nathan Pacheco, Friday, 8:15 p.m., Pardoe Drama Theatre, Harris Fine Arts Center, Brigham Young University, Campus Drive & Heritage Drive, Provo, $13
— “Our Roots: A Celebration of Who We Are,” Friday, 7:30 p.m., De Jong Concert Hall, Harris Fine Arts Center, Brigham Young University, Campus Drive & Heritage Drive, Provo, $13
— “Dancing Under the Stars” Friday and Saturday, 8 p.m., SCERA Center, 745 South State Street, Orem, $15-$30
— America’s Music and Dance,” Murray Arts in the Park, Saturday, 8 p.m., Murray Park Amphitheater, 495 East 5300 South, Salt Lake City, $2-$8
— Changing Lanes Experience & Red Rock Hot Club, Excellence in the Community Concert Series, Saturday, 8 p.m., Holladay City Hall, 4580 South 2300 East, Salt Lake City, free
— “Rose Exposed,” Saturday, 8 p.m., Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, 138 West 300 South, Salt Lake City, $15
— Code Blue, Davis Arts Council, Sunday, 7 p.m., Kenley Amphitheater, 403 North Wasatch Drive, Layton, free
— Kenneth Cope: Free Musical Fireside, Sunday, 7 p.m., SCERA Center, 745 South State Street, Orem, free
— Organ concerts, every Saturday, noon, and every Sunday, 2 p.m., Temple Square Assembly Hall, free
Theater
— “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
— “The Actors” through Septemer 8, The Hive Collaborative
— “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
— “Daddy Long Legs” through September 22, Hale Center Theater Orem
— “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
— Busker Fest, Friday, 3 – 10 p.m., 150 South Regent Street, Salt Lake City
— Blue Moon Festival, Saturday, 3 – 10 p.m., Holladay City Hall, 4580 South 2300 East, Salt Lake City
— Utah Renaissance Faire, Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m. – 8 p.m., Thanksgiving Point’s Electric Park, 3003 Thanksgiving Way, Lehi
— Made in Utah Festival, Saturday, 12 – 8 p.m., The Gateway, 18 North Rio Grande Street, Salt Lake City
