Oct. 17
Last run at USANA
The summer is truly over when USANA Amphitheatre has its last show of the season. That happens Tuesday, as the hard-rock band Shinedown performs. Opening the show are Papa Roach and Spiritbox. The show starts at 6:40 p.m.; tickets, starting at $25, are available at LiveNation.com.
Oct. 20-31
Doing the Time Warp
The tricky thing about watching the stage version of “The Rocky Horror Show” — which Pioneer Theatre Company is set to perform starting Friday and running through Halloween night at the Pioneer Memorial Theatre, 300 S. 1400 East, Salt Lake City — is that, unlike the cult-classic movie “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” you can’t yell at the characters because they might yell something back. The raucous spoof of old-time monster movies, in which a fishnet-wearing mad scientist builds an Adonis in his lab and invites an innocent couple to check him out, this year marked 50 years since its West End premiere — and it has not lost its capacity to shock and thrill. Tickets for the production are available at PioneerTheatre.org.
Oct. 21
The Aces come home
“Good girls love Jesus, not that girl from Phoenix,” sings The Aces’ Cristal Ramirez on “Suburban Blues,” a song from their most recent album, “I’ve Loved You For So Long” — a nod to the mostly queer indie-pop quartet’s complicated roots growing up in Orem. The band has been touring in support of that album, and their travels bring them home for a concert Saturday, starting at 8 p.m., at The Complex, 536 W. 100 South, Salt Lake City. Opening the show are Carol Ades and Beeson. Tickets are available at thecomplexslc.com.
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