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THE ESSENTIAL A&E PICKS FOR JUN 26 - JUL 2

Utah Symphony: Star Wars: A New Hope in Concert, Amplify Utah: In Their Words Exhibition, SLC Pride, and more.

THE ESSENTIAL A&E PICKS FOR JUN 19 - JUN 25

Juneteenth Events, James Austin Johnson, Truth in Comedy @ Urban Arts Gallery and more.

THE ESSENTIAL A&E PICKS FOR JUN 12 - JUN 18

AJ Irving: The Bi Book, Broadway at the Eccles: & Juliet, SAW: The Musical – The Unauthorized Parody of Saw, and more.

THE ESSENTIAL A&E PICKS FOR JUN 26 - JUL 2

Utah Symphony: Star Wars: A New Hope in Concert, Amplify Utah: In Their Words Exhibition, SLC Pride, and more.
So it may be hard for those who weren't there at the time to get a sense for what it was like to be in a theater in 1977 when Star Wars was fresh and new.

THE ESSENTIAL A&E PICKS FOR JUN 5 - JUN 11

Randy Feltface @ Wiseguys West Jordan, Utah Asian Festival, Jane Austen Regency Festival and more.
"Rant comedy" has been its own subgenre of stand-up ever since George Carlin's 1992 Jammin' in New York special.

THE ESSENTIAL A&E PICKS FOR MAY 29 - JUN 4

Out Loud @ Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Planned Parenthood 55th Anniversary with Jonathan Van Ness, Jake Shane @ Kingsbury Hall, and more.
For more than a decade, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art has been such a place through its Out Loud program, providing a creative outlet, artistic guidance and a venue in which their experience can be shared with the world.

THE ESSENTIAL A&E PICKS FOR MAY 22 - MAY 28

Soldier Hollow Classic Sheepdog Championship & Festival, Utah Symphony: Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, Scandinavian Heritage Festival, and more.
The Soldier Hollow Classic Sheepdog Championship & Festival returned to Midway, moving from its previous traditional Labor Day weekend time frame to Memorial Day weekend.

THE ESSENTIAL A&E PICKS FOR MAY 15 - MAY 21

Queer Spectra Arts Festival, This Was Water @ Dumke Arts Plaza, Salt Lake City Main Library Rooftop Reopening, and more.
Let's face it: 2025 has been a particularly challenging year to be queer in Utah.

THE ESSENTIAL A&E PICKS FOR MAY 8 - MAY 14

Sammy Obeid, Dan McClellan: The Bible Says So, Ballet West: Works from Within, and more.
American-born Lebanese-Palestinian comedian Sammy Obeid came out of college as a Business and Mathematics major.

THE ESSENTIAL A&E PICKS FOR MAY 1 - MAY 7

Pioneer Theatre Company: Waitress, Utah Opera: Madame Butterfly Pixar Putt @ Mountain View Village
It would be easy to focus on the tragedy that was part of Waitress's origins—but that wouldn't be doing the story justice.

THE ESSENTIAL A&E PICKS FOR APR 24 - APR 30

RDT: Deux, Thanksgiving Point Tulip Festival, Tumbleweeds Film Festival for Kids
At its most literal level, the title of Repertory Dance Theatre's season-ending production Deux of course just means "two," referring to the two celebrated choreographers featured as part of the evening's program.

THE ESSENTIAL A&E PICKS FOR APR 17 - APR 23

Nepantla: Border Arte @ Finch Lane Gallery, Utah Symphony: Mozart's Requiem, Ririe-Woodbury: Re-Act, and more.
Identity is no simple matter; for each one of us, it's a complex interplay of place, ethnicity, faith, gender, sexual orientation and so much more, defying attempts at creating simplistic binaries.

THE ESSENTIAL A&E PICKS FOR APR 10 - APR 16

Bat Boy: The Musical @ SLAC, Alton Brown Live: Last Bite, Ali Wong
Time comes at you pretty fast: It's been more than 30 years since the supermarket tabloid Weekly World News published a story claiming the existence of a strange "bat boy" who grew up in a cave.

THE ESSENTIAL A&E PICKS FOR APR 3 - APR 9

Broadway in Utah: Life of Pi, Ballet West: The Rite of Spring, Stephen E. Strom: Forging a Sustainable Southwest
It's clear that Martel's tale is rich with possibility for interpretations in other media.

THE ESSENTIAL A&E PICKS FOR MAR 27 - APR 2

Pioneer Theatre Company: A Case for the Existence of God, Science Friday Live, Odyssey Dance: Shut Up & Dance, and more.
It's almost conventional wisdom now that the traditional "American Dream" has become ever more inaccessible to younger generations.

THE ESSENTIAL A&E PICKS FOR MAR 20 - 26

Ziegfeld Theater: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, "The Forbidden Bookshelf" book club @ The King's English Bookshop, NCECA Conference and exhibitions, and more.
There's a bittersweet backstory to the origin of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the improbable creation of Ian Fleming, better known for the sexy, violent spy capers of James Bond.

THE ESSENTIAL A&E PICKS FOR MAR 13 - 19

Sheng Wang, RDT: Regalia, Ben and Gabrielle Blair, and more.
He's a multi-cultural kind of guy, but also decidedly modest, and generally takes a self-effacing, observational approach as far as his comedy routines are concerned.

THE ESSENTIAL A&E PICKS FOR MAR 6 - 12

Jenna Voris: Say a Little Prayer, Utah Opera: Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, International Women's Day, and more.
Saturday, March 8 marks the 50th anniversary of the United Nations' first declaration of an International Women's Day, and there are ways to celebrate the occasion locally.

THE ESSENTIAL A&E PICKS FOR FEB 27 - MAR 5

Josh Johnson, Hubbard Street Dance, Mad King Productions: Proof, and more.
It's a frustrating experience, because deep down, we understand that it takes time to appreciate the art that's truly great.

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