Events

Wednesday evening, December 16 at 7:30 PM — Reynolds Hall at The Smith Center hosts Nevada Ballet Theatre's The Nutcracker for a midweek performance that captures the holiday season at its most elegant.George Balanchine's choreography is the gold standard for this production, and NBT delivers it with spectacular art deco costumes and scenic design that […]

Wednesday, December 16 at 7:30 PM at Jimmy Kimmel's Comedy Club — the midpoint of the holiday season on the Strip, and Vicki Barbolak's Trailer Park Happy Hour is the show to be at this Wednesday. The December crowd in Las Vegas skews toward people who are specifically in the city to enjoy themselves, and […]

Wednesday, December 16th at 8:00 PM, Spencer James holds down the midweek stage at Brad Garrett's Comedy Club inside MGM Hotel and Casino in the heart of his holiday-season run.A Las Vegas native who has built a national touring career from observational humor and personal storytelling, James mixes sharp one-liners with vulnerability and the occasional […]

Wednesday, December 16 at Jimmy Kimmel's Comedy Club is a 9:30 PM show just days before Christmas — a prime night in Las Vegas's busiest stretch of the year. Carlos Mencia's stand-up meets the pre-holiday energy with material that's been sharpened across a full year of residency dates at this Strip room.His comedy on cultural […]

Wednesday, December 16 at 9:30 PM — Comedy Cellar Las Vegas fills out the late-week slate at the Rio, and the mid-December timing puts the room in front of a crowd that's deep into the holiday stretch and in a great headspace for stand-up.The club runs five rotating comedians per show, each a television-credited headliner […]

Thursday, December 17 at Jimmy Kimmel's Comedy Club closes out the 2026 Comedy & Cocktails run — Jay Reid at 7:30 PM, one week before Christmas on the most festive stretch of the Las Vegas Strip calendar.Reid ends the year as he's run the whole residency: a Las Vegas-born comedian who knows this city and […]

Thursday, December 17 at 7:30 PM at Reynolds Hall in The Smith Center — Nevada Ballet Theatre's The Nutcracker takes the stage for a pre-weekend evening performance with all the holiday anticipation that the week before Christmas brings.NBT's dancers bring the Sugarplum Fairy, the Snow Queen, Mother Ginger, and all the beloved Divertissements to life […]

Thursday, December 17th at 8:00 PM — Spencer James is four nights into his holiday-week run at Brad Garrett's Comedy Club inside MGM Hotel and Casino, heading into the final stretch of the week.He pulls material from daily observations, warped reactions to relationships, and the kind of odd-angle humor — his material on guys in […]

Thursday night, December 17 at 8:00 PM at Sphere at The Venetian Resort: the weekend is close, the show is ready, and The Wizard of Oz at Sphere has been filling this building to thunderous effect since August 2025. A late-Thursday show at Sphere feels like a head start on the weekend.The 75-minute experience wraps […]

Thursday, December 17 at Jimmy Kimmel's Comedy Club brings Carlos Mencia to 9:30 PM one week before Christmas in Las Vegas. This is peak Strip season — packed rooms, high energy, a crowd that has committed to making the most of a night out — and Mencia's residency is built for exactly that audience.He's been […]

Thursday, December 17 at 9:30 PM — Comedy Cellar Las Vegas at the Rio opens the late show with one of the most reliable comedy formats in Las Vegas: five headliners, one stage, no padding, no filler act opening for thirty minutes.The club assembles its rotating lineup at the end of each week, booking the […]

Friday, December 18 at 7 PM kicks off a busy pre-holiday weekend at Comedy Cellar Las Vegas inside the Rio, and the room is one of the more genuinely fun 300-seat comedy venues you'll find anywhere in this city.Five TV-headliner comedians each take 15–20 minutes in the club's signature showcase format, rotating weekly so the […]

Jessimae Peluso opens her Las Vegas weekend at Jimmy Kimmel's Comedy Club on Friday, December 18 at 7:30 PM. Known from two seasons of MTV's Girl Code, Peluso builds her stand-up on raw personal storytelling, emotional honesty, and an unfiltered energy that grabs a room quickly.She started in Boston improv before moving to New York […]

Friday, December 18 at 7:30 PM at Reynolds Hall in The Smith Center — Nevada Ballet Theatre's The Nutcracker opens the final full weekend of performances with the first Friday night show of the run.The weekend-opening crowd gives this show a festive charge that the production more than earns: Balanchine's choreography, art deco era design, […]

Friday, December 18th at 8:00 PM, Spencer James hits the weekend at Brad Garrett's Comedy Club at MGM Hotel and Casino for the second-to-last full night of his holiday-week Las Vegas engagement.James is a homegrown Las Vegas comedian who has been honing his craft on clubs and cruise ships nationwide, building stand-up that blends personal […]