performing arts

El grupo musical de Utah The King Will Come, integrado por 15 personas, fue uno de los cinco finalistas del Concurso Tiny Desk de NPR 2026. Su música promueve un mensaje de la acogida de Dios.

One of the five finalists in NPR’s annual Tiny Desk Contest is a 15-member Utah musical group, The King Will Come. Their music promotes a message of God’s welcome.

“The Spirit of Freedom” is a new religious pageant that plans to debut in Manti, Utah, next summer.

Since there are so few boys in dance, they’re given special treatment and are raised to become leaders, said Southern Utah University dance professor Nancy Dobbs Owen. Girls, on the other hand, are told to fall in line.

“If I can bring something beautiful to them, it tells them they matter,” said music thanatologist and Zion National Park artist-in-residence Catharine DeLong. “It tells them that they are alive.”

“Rhapsody in Blue” turns 100 next year, so pianist Jeffery Biegel commissioned “Rhapsody in Red, White & Blue” — a new composition that tips the hat to Gershwin while reflecting on the America of today.

Artists, musicians and vendors came from across the region to participate in áyA Con, an Indigenous Comic Con festival this past weekend. They reflected on Indigenous history and celebrated their culture.

The nearly century-old ethereal instrument is the innovation of French cellist and telegraph operator Maurice Martenot. Ondist Augustin Viard brought the rare instrument to Salt Lake City to perform with the Utah Symphony.

“I think for me as a member of the Deaf community, theater is one of the best ways for us to show our language and culture to the world,” said Deaf West Theatre’s Artistic Director.

Students past and present recount magical moments at the longtime home for the arts on the north end of the Brigham Young University campus.

Hundreds of ballet dancers around Utah gathered to perform at the Youth America Grand Prix scholarship competition.

Ballet west has been using the same designs in its “Nutcracker” production for nearly 30 years, according to the company’s artistic director Adam…