The holiday season is in full effect, and the events to celebrate are sure to keep you in a festive mood. There are events happening all over Metro Detroit, below is a list of options, for just about everyone. 🎄Novi- The “Holiday Magic Spectacular” is a walk-thru experience featuring more than 1,000 Christmas Trees, (some…

Lined up at the dumpster in PETE’s “I’m in Control Which Means Nothing Bad Will Ever Happen To Me.” Photo: Nina Johnson On a warm, damp December evening, Isabel McTighe and Elsa Dougherty are gathered in a sparse, white, overly bright room in the Alberta Abbey, picking away at the details of a new show…

This weekend, a cast of 23 actors will bring the modern holiday classic “Elf The Musical” to life on the renovated Julie Harris Theater stage at Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts School and Camp. “I love this movie, and so does the whole world,” said Steamboat Springs High School senior Sophie Cowman, who is playing the part…

AX: axs.com CW: comedyworks.com PMH: pueblomemorialhall.com TM: ticketmaster.com MUSIC Thursday: K-Love’s Celebrate Christmas Tour — Featuring Natalie Grand and Danny Gokey with Mac Powell, 7 p.m., Pueblo Memorial Hall, 1 City Place, Pueblo, $19.75 and up; PMH. Thursday: Must Die! — With Tisoki, Rsenik, Bwrz, 9 p.m., Fox Theatre, Boulder, $18-$20; AX. Thursday-Saturday: The Lil Smokies — 8…

SARATOGA SPRINGS — Saratoga Springs Youth Ballet presents the Nutcracker at 2 and 7 p.m. on Saturday, Dec 16 and 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec 17 at the Performing Arts Center at the University at Albany. This year, 115 young dancers ages 5-17 will grace the stage. General admission tickets are $35; for seniors and students…

Following on the heels of its successful 10th anniversary season, Ballet Vero Beach has planned an equally ambitious 2023-24 season, replete with performances, numerous community engagement and outreach programs, and double the number of dancers. Adam Schnell, BVB artistic director/CEO, explains that in addition to ballet master Camilo A. Rodriguez, the company now has four…

The season of holiday dance is upon us — a time when tutus twirl, pointe shoes pirouette and the spirit of the season comes alive on stages across the county. The Nutcracker, Tchaikovsky’s timeless classic, gets some love from two outstanding local dance companies this week, plus a creative take on a holiday favorite. First…

Theatre Three’s production of 1970s comedy-thriller Deathtrap is delightful, with a cast animating Ira Levin’s snappy dialogue and surprising reversals to the point of drawing exclamations of “No!” and “Damn!” from opening night audience members Monday. The self-referential play about a writer in the midst of a long dry spell ran for four years on…

Live Design’s second day of ’12 Plots Of Christimas’ strays from the paradigm of light plots into the immersive world of a seasonal Christmas event in Denver… Designer/camp director Lonnie Hanzon is the creator of Camp Christmas, a 15,000 square-foot, 360-degree kaleidoscope of yuletide cheer for the holiday season. Live Design chats with Hanzon about this dazzling,…