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Sunday, December 20 at 2:00 PM at Reynolds Hall in The Smith Center — Nevada Ballet Theatre presents a pre-Christmas-week matinee of George Balanchine's The Nutcracker that closes the weekend beautifully.By the Sunday before Christmas, the city is fully in the holiday spirit, and NBT's production of Balanchine's classic matches that energy precisely: the company's […]

Sunday, December 20 at 5:00 PM at Sphere at The Venetian Resort — four days before Christmas, and Las Vegas is fully decorated and buzzing. The holiday energy in the city makes the Emerald City feel even more vivid, and this early-evening Sunday show is a great way to mark the season.The Wizard of Oz […]

Night two of Olivia Rodrigo's Unraveled Tour at T-Mobile Arena falls on Sunday, December 20 at 7:00 PM. After a Saturday that will set the tone for the run, Sunday shows in this tour cycle tend to carry the kind of settled-in, full-performance energy that fans who can only attend one night should prioritize.Rodrigo's ear […]

Sunday, December 20 at Jimmy Kimmel's Comedy Club — Josh Wolf at 7:30 PM on the Strip, five days before Christmas.Wolf has spent his entire career mining family life for material, and the week before Christmas is peak source territory. His honest, self-aware comedy is the perfect way to step outside the holiday noise for […]

Spencer James closes out his holiday-week run at Brad Garrett's Comedy Club on Sunday, December 20th — the final 8:00 PM show of a seven-night Las Vegas engagement at MGM Hotel and Casino, five days before Christmas.A Las Vegas-based stand-up who performs regularly on the national touring circuit and in his own backyard, James wraps […]

Sunday, December 20 at 9:30 PM — the late show at Comedy Cellar Las Vegas wraps the pre-Christmas weekend at the Rio's intimate comedy room, with a crowd that's in full holiday-week mode by this point in December.Five rotating TV-caliber comedians share one stage in a showcase format, each doing 15–20 minutes of headliner-grade material. […]

Four days before Christmas, Luenell lights up Jimmy Kimmel’s Comedy Club on Sunday, December 20 — 9:30 PM at The LINQ on the Las Vegas Strip.Pre-Christmas Las Vegas is its own thing, and a Luenell show in this setting hits differently. She has a gift for cutting through the noise and getting to what’s actually […]

Monday, December 21 — winter solstice — at 5:00 PM inside Sphere at The Venetian Resort. The shortest day of the year is an oddly fitting time to walk into the most immersive entertainment venue in Las Vegas and let The Wizard of Oz at Sphere take over your senses for 75 minutes.The production pairs […]

Monday, December 21 at 7 PM — Comedy Cellar Las Vegas at the Rio starts the final full week before Christmas, and the early show draws a crowd that's fully in holiday-week mode and easy to please in the best possible way.The club's five-comedian showcase puts rotating TV headliners on stage back to back, each […]

Monday, December 21 — Josh Wolf is at Jimmy Kimmel's Comedy Club at 7:30 PM on the Las Vegas Strip, the Monday before Christmas.He's been performing stand-up for close to three decades, and the craft is visible in every aspect of what he does: the timing that feels relaxed without being loose, the material that […]

Three days before Christmas — catch Luenell at Jimmy Kimmel’s Comedy Club on Monday, December 21 at 9:30 PM at The LINQ Promenade.She has spent more than three decades turning the realities of her own life into stand-up that feels both singular and deeply relatable, and a Las Vegas residency that runs all the way […]

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Tuesday, December 22 at 2:00 PM — Reynolds Hall at The Smith Center hosts Nevada Ballet Theatre's The Nutcracker matinee just three days before Christmas, and there is no better way to spend a Tuesday afternoon in Las Vegas this close to the holiday.NBT's Balanchine production delivers every seasonal detail: the Land of the Sweets, […]