Take a break from gift-giving and the retail overload and truly enjoy the holiday season! Here are festive holiday arts happenings that will warm your heart and remind you to appreciate the beauty that surrounds us this time of year.
The perfect time to start a holiday tradition is NOW — and what better way to do it than with the ARTS!
DANCE:
- 12/8 & 12/9
Let’s Go Nutz
Repertory Dance Theatre
Miller Symphony Hall | 7pm - 12/9 & 12/10
The Nutcracker
Repertory Dance Theatre
Miller Symphony Hall | 2 pm - 12/10
Moscow Ballet, The Great Russian Nutcracker
State Theatre Center for the Arts
Sat 3 & 7pm - 12/16 & 12/17
The Nutcracker
Ballet Guild of the Lehigh Valley
Zoellner Arts Center, Lehigh University | Sat 1 & 4pm, Sun 2pm
EXHIBITIONS:
- 11/30 to 12/21
The 2017 Holiday Gift Gallery
The Baum School of Art
Reception 11/30 | 6 to 8pm - 12/2
A Pennsylvania Dutch Christmas
Lehigh Valley Heritage Museum
Historic Troxell-Steckel Farm Museum | 11am to 3pm - 12/3
Third Annual Holiday Art Show & Sale
Art Is Inn
Sun 10:30am to 4:30pm
KIDS & TEENS:
- 11/24 to 12/31
Pip: The Mouse Before Christmas Puppet Show
Liberty Bell Shrine Museum
Historic Zion’s Church | Mon – Sat, 2nd Sunday in Dec | 12:30, 1:30, and 2:30 pm - 11/24 to 12/30
Holiday Train Exhibit
America On Wheels
10am to 4pm - 12/2
Take Your Child to a Bookstore Day for Old Fashioned Christmas
Let’s Play Books!
10am to 6pm - 12/2
Winter Concert
Bel Canto Children’s Chorus
Lehigh Valley Charter Arts School | 4pm - 12/2 & 12/3
Christmas Wonderland Holiday Spectacular
State Theatre Center for the Arts
Sat 7pm | Sun 2pm - 12/8 to 12/17
A Christmas Story, the Musical
Pennsylvania Youth Theatre
Charles A. Brown Historic Ice House | 12/8, 12/15 – 7pm | 12/9, 12/16 – 1 & 5pm | 12/10, 12/17 – 2pm - 12/9
Breakfast with Pip
Liberty Bell Shrine Museum
Historic Zion’s Church | 8:30, 9:15, 10, or 10:45 am - 12/9
Family Holiday Folk Music
America On Wheels
11:30am - 12/9
Buddy the Elf
Let’s Play Books!
12pm to 2pm - 12/10
Annual Holiday Concerts
Junior String Philharmonic & Young People’s Philharmonic
Muhlenberg College’s Empie Theatre | 1pm & 5pm - 12/13
Holiday Stories Performed by Michèle LaRue
Allentown Public Library
7pm - 12/16 & 12/19
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Let’s Play Books!
Sat 5pm | Tues 6pm - 12/24
Christmas Eve at the Bookshop
Let’s Play Books!
9am to 3pm - 12/24
Christmas Eve Celebration
Liberty Bell Shrine Museum
Historic Zion’s Church | 12:30pm & 1:30pm - 12/26 to 12/30
Holiday Art Camps
ArtsQuest Banana Factory Arts Center
Full-day 9am to 3:30pm | Half-day 12:30 to 3:30pm - 12/28
Celebrate Kwanzaa – Coloring & Stories
Let’s Play Books!
11am to 5pm - 12/31
New Year’s Eve Celebration
Liberty Bell Shrine Museum
Historic Zion’s Church | 12pm & 1pm
MUSIC:
- 11/30
A Chanticleer Christmas
Kutztown University Presents!
7:30pm - 12/2 to 12/3
Candlelight Carol Services
Muhlenberg College Music Department
Sat 7:30pm | Sun 3:30pm & 7:30pm
- 12/2
Christmas Concert
The Bach & Handel Chorale
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church | 3pm - 12/3
Holiday Recital
Community Music School
Miller Symphony Hall | 3pm - 12/6
Songs of the Holidays
William Allen High School Chorale
Allentown Public Library | 6pm to 8pm
- 12/7
The Ten Tenors: Home for the Holidays
State Theatre for the Arts
7:30pm - 12/7 & 12/8
Annual Yuletide Feast
Concord Chamber Singers
Northampton Country Club | Dinner & Entertainment 7pm - 12/8, 12/9, 12/13 & 12/14
Gaudeamus Christmas Concert
Act 1 DeSales University
Connelly Chapel, DeSales University | 8pm - 12/9
Christmas Concert
The Bach & Handel Chorale
St. John’s Lutheran Church | 3pm - 12/10
Christmas Concert
The Bach & Handel Chorale
St. Paul’s United Church of Christ | 3pm - 12/9 & 12/10
Christmas Concerts – A Child’s Christmas in Bethlehem
The Bel Canto Children’s Chorus
Connelly Chapel, DeSales University | Sat 8pm, Sun 4pm
- 12/10
A Family Christmas Concert
Concord Chamber Singers
Wesley Church | 5pm - 12/10
LU Choral Arts: Christmas Vespers
Zoellner Arts Center
4pm & 8pm - 12/11 to 12/12
Winter Choral Concert
Lehigh Valley Charter School for the Arts
7pm
- 12/14
Merry Christmas Darling: Carpenters’ Christmas
State Theatre for the Arts
7:30pm - 12/15
Instrumental Winter Concert
Lehigh Valley Charter School for the Arts
7pm - 12/15
The Frank DiBussolo Philly Reunion Group Holiday Show
Allentown Symphony Association
Miller Symphony Hall | 7:30pm - 12/16
Christmas Concert – Vespers for the Passing of the Year
The Camerata Singers
First Presbyterian Church | 7:30pm - 12/16
Second Annual Winter Concert
The Lehigh Valley Chorale
Trinity Episcopal Church | 7pm to 9pm - 12/17
Second Annual Winter Concert
The Lehigh Valley Chorale
Cathedral Church of the Nativity | 4pm to 6pm - 12/17
The Rodney Marsalis Philadelphia Big Brass Holiday Concert
Allentown Symphony Association
Miller Symphony Hall | 7:00pm - 12/17
The Wizards of Winter
State Theatre for the Arts
4pm - 12/17
Home for the Holidays, featuring the Lehigh Valley Men’s Chorale
Allentown Band
First Presbyterian Church | 3pm - 12/19
Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols
Cathedral Arts
Cathedral Church of the Nativity | 7pm
SPECIAL EVENTS:
- 12/1 to 12/2
Artisan Pop-Up Shop
Ah-Ha! Arts Management
The Wildlands Conservancy | Sat 10am to 6pm, Sun 10am to 4pm - 12/2
Indiemade Craft Market
Indiemade Craft Market
Starlite Ballroom | 10am to 5pm - 12/2 & 12/3
Holiday Show, Part II
Arts Community of Easton
Grand Eastonian Hotel | Sat 10am to 4pm, Sun 10am to 3pm - 12/10
Artisan Craft Show
Jewish Community Center of the Lehigh Valley
10am to 5pm - 12/16 & 12/17
Holiday Show, Part III
Arts Community of Easton
Grand Eastonian Hotel | Sat 10am to 4pm, Sun 10am to 3pm - 12/14
Symphony on Ice Holiday Spectacular
Allentown Symphony Orchestra
PPL Center | 7pm
THEATRE:
- 12/1 to 12/16
A Christmas Carol
Civic Theatre of Allentown
Thurs – Sat 7:30pm | Sat & Sun 12/3 – 12/16 2pm - 12/1 to 12/3, 12/8 to 12/10, 12/14 to 12/17
Harry Connick, Jr.’s The Happy Elf
Pennsylvania Playhouse
Thurs, Fri, Sat 7:30pm |Sun 3:00pm - 12/8 to 12/17
The Santaland Diaries
Civic Theatre of Allentown
12/8 – 12/16 8pm | 12/10 & 12/17 3pm - 12/16
Annual Winter Ice Show: Solstice
Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts
Steel Ice Center | 7pm - 11/30 to 12/22
Christmas City Follies XVIII
Touchstone Theatre
Thurs – Sat 8pm | Sun 2pm
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