March 24-27
Music from the military
The United States Air Force Band and Singing Sergeants, from Washington, D.C., are on tour through three Western states, starting with four stops in Utah: Monday, 7 p.m., Brigham Young University School of Music, 1100 N. 900 East, Provo; Tuesday, 7 p.m., Utah State University Daines Concert Hall, 600 N. 1150 East, Logan; Wednesday, 7 p.m., Tabernacle on Temple Square, 50 N. West Temple, Salt Lake City; Thursday, 7:30 p.m., Heritage Theater, 105 N. 100 East, Cedar City. Tickets are free, but must be obtained in advance online, at bit.ly/TheUSAFBandTickets.
March 26-29
Beauty and fragility
Nine of the best clay artists in the country will be showing their works at a group exhibition, “Form in Formation,” running Wednesday through Saturday at Material Gallery, 2970 S. West Temple, Salt Lake City. “As the footprint of exploration, form physicalizes the ways we search for knowing, feeling and connection,” the exhibition’s curator, artist Hideo Mabuchi, said in a statement. The exhibition is tied to the annual conference of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts at the Salt Palace Convention Center. The exhibitions’s hours are: Wednesday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. and 4-5 p.m.; Thursday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Friday, 10 a.m.-9 p.m.; and Saturday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. An opening reception, which Mabuchi and several artists are expected to attend, is Thursday, 5-9 p.m.
March 28 - April 12
‘God’ at Pioneer Theatre
Pioneer Theatre Company is presenting the Utah premiere of “A Case for the Existence of God,” starting Friday and running through April 12, in the Meldrum Theatre at the Einar Nielsen Field House on the University of Utah campus. Written by Idaho-based playwright Samuel D. Hunter, whose “The Whale” became a movie with Brendan Fraser, this drama centers on two men — a mortgage broker and a yogurt plant worker — whose conversation digs deeper than financial concerns. Tickets for the production are available at pioneertheatre.org.
March 29
‘Science Friday’ at Eccles
The NPR series “Science Friday” will record a live episode Saturday at 7 p.m. at the Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main St., Salt Lake City. Hosts Ira Flatow and Flora Lichtman are scheduled to present three science stories with a Utah flavor: The Lokiceratops dinosaur; the Southwest peach; and the creation of museum dioramas at the University of Utah’s Animation Lab. The Salt Lake City band Staycation also will perform. Tickets, from $25 to $65, are available at ArtTix.org.
