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Holiday Exhibition coming to Art Access Gallery
Art Access Gallery will feature 28 Utah artists in its annual Holiday Exhibition. The exhibition will open on Friday, Nov. 21, and close on Friday, Dec. 19. Participating artists will include Vic...
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Free comedy show at Performing Arts Center
The Midvale Arts Council will present a free concert on Friday, Nov. 21 at 7:30 p.m. at the Midvale Performing Arts Center. The concert will feature Quick Wits, Utah’s longest running comed...
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Starring in Desert Star’s new holiday comedy, “Miracle on 42nd Street: Give My Regards to Blitzen,” are, from left, Scott Holman, Spencer Ashby, Cassie Jackman, Ed Farnsworth and Erin Fair. 
Photo by Chad Whitlock for Desert Star. Desert Star’s new show jingles into the holidays
Desert Star Playhouse will ring in the holiday season with its newest production, “Miracle on 42nd Street: Give My Regards to Blitzen.” This parody for the whole family runs through Jan. 3, 2009 ...
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CNN anchor to lecture in SLC
Anderson Cooper, host of CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” will be guest lecturer at the third annual McCarthey Family lecture series on Saturday, Nov. 15. He will present on the theme “Reflections on...
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Folk Concert to feature songs and dances of Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Russia
The Duna International Folk Dance Company, Zivio Music Ensemble and Russian Folk Singers will be presenting a concert of folk music, songs and dances on the evening of Nov. 15, beginning at 7:30 ...
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Nouveau Beaujolais Festival at Deer Valley
Deer Valley Resort guests will again celebrate the bounty of the fall harvest and the changing of the seasons at the Wasatch Food and Wine Society’s Nouveau Beaujolais Festival on Sunday, Nov. 23...
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Sandy kicks-off holiday season with annual Deck the Hall celebration
Kick-off the holiday season with the whole family at the annual Sandy Deck the Hall celebration, Monday, Dec. 1, at 6 p.m. at Sandy City Hall, 10000 S. Centennial Parkway. Santa Claus comes down ...
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Symphony to feature works by Shostakovich
Music Director Keith Lockhart leads the Utah Symphony in Shostakovich’s most famous symphony, his Fifth Symphony, on a program that also includes Mozart’s Overture to Don Giovanni and Britten’s V...
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Trees of Diversity at UCCC
The fifth annual “Trees of Diversity” exhibit will run from Nov. 22 to Jan. 7 at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center, 1355 West 3100 South in West Valley City. It will be open to the public from...
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Free concert by Citrine
The Midvale Arts Council will present a free concert on Friday, Oct. 17 at 7:30 p.m. at the Midvale Performing Arts Center, 695 West Center St. (7720 South.) Citrine is a 12-woman vocal group bas...
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Collin Raye to perform in concerts at Desert Star Dinner Theater
Award-winning singer/songwriter Collin Raye is coming home. Raye, who moved to Salt Lake City two months ago, will perform in concert at the Desert Star Dinner Theatre in Murray starting Monday, N...
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 Monique Derr (left) as Corroptya, Travis Hyer as Count Dracula, Brittney Nielson as Jezebel and Mary Brassard (front) as Luna in Hunt Mystery Theater’s production of “Dracula’s Grand Masquerade Ball.” Others in cast not pictured are Brittany Howard as Frankenstein s Bride and Shea Potter as the "Mummy."
Hunt Mystery Theaters offering two shows in October
One of the great local traditions in live theater has productions at a pair of venues in October. Hunt Mystery Theaters has shows at Boccia’s D’Italia restaurant in Ogden and the University Park ...
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Cast members rehearse for the Draper Arts Council’s fall production, “Imagine Yourself.” 
“Imagine Yourself…” to open at Summit Academy
The Draper Arts Council’s fall youth musical revue will be performed Oct. 9, 10, 11 and 13. “Imagine Yourself…,” a Broadway youth revue, features the music and characters of some of America’s b...
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 Kelly Coombs is Little Red, Cy Wood plays Jack and Cecily Ellis-Bills is Cinderella in Hale Centre Theatre’s production of “Into the Woods.”
‘Into the Woods’ opening at Hale in West Valley
Hale Centre Theatre in West Valley City will present the Broadway musical “Into the Woods” through Nov. 29. The HCT production of Stephen Sondheim’s modern classic weaves together fairytale cha...
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C. S. Lewis classic coming to Draper stage
The Draper Historic Theatre is presenting “The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.” This classic tale is based on the novel by C.S. Lewis and adapted for stage by Joseph Robinette. “The Lion, The W...
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Great Big Sea in Murray on Oct. 10
Platinum-selling Canadian favorites Great Big Sea will perform on Oct. 10 at the Murray Theater as part of its nationwide tour. The band recently released “Fortune’s Favour,” its newest album, an...
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Christmas production auditions in Draper
The Draper Arts Council will hold auditions on Saturday, Oct. 11 from 9 a.m. to noon and October 14 from 6 to 8 p.m. for their Christmas production. This will be the world premiere of Janeen Jaco...
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Juan Diego student plays real life ‘High School Musical’ role
A high school athlete discovers his passion and ability for singing and acting and makes the transition from the court to the stage, despite ridicule from his friends. Although this sounds like t...
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The international theater group “Up with People” will be performing Oct. 18 at 7:30 p.m. in the Murray High School Auditorium. All proceeds will go to a local youth charity.
Murray Community Arts program will host ‘Up with People’ performers
The traveling international nonprofit theater group “Up with People” will be performing in the Murray High School auditorium, 5440 South State, on Saturday, Oct. 18, at 7:30 p.m. The high-energy ...
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Local residents will dress in period costume to conduct tours of the city cemetery during the annual “Draper Haunted Hollow.”



Haunted history hauled out for Halloween
Cemeteries and Halloween go together this time of year. The historic Draper Cemetery is no exception. However, instead of finding frights and fears, expect fascinating history and fun times. The ...
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