7:30 p.m.: 10th Annual Ernie White Band And Friends Christmas Benefit Concert; Patriots Theater at the War Memorial, Trenton.
7:30 p.m.: Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol; McCarter Theatre. Also Thursday at noon and 4 p.m., Saturday at 1 and 5:30 p.m., Sunday at 1 and 5:30 p.m.
8 p.m.: Mercer County Symphonic Band Winter Concert; Kelsey Theater, Mercer County Community College. Free.
5:30 p.m.: Annual Candlelight Christmas Eve Caroling; Palmer Square Green. Free.
Christmas Day
1 and 3 p.m.: Laser Nutcracker Spectacular; New Jersey State Museum Planetarium, 205 West State Street, Trenton. Also Sunday at 1 and 3 p.m.
3:30 p.m.: Screening of Pixar film Up; Princeton Public Library.
7:30 and 9:30 p.m.: Stand-Up Comic Sherry Davey; Catch A Rising Star Comedy Club, Princeton Hyatt Regency, Route 1.
10:30 a.m.: Youth Stages play, The Three Bears, for children ages 3 to 5; Princeton Public Library.
7:30 p.m.: The Capitol Steps in Obama Mia; Patriots Theater at the War Memorial, Trenton.
8 p.m.: Jolson & Company; Off-Broadstreet Theatre, Hopewell. Also Wednesday at 2:30 p.m., Thursday at 8 p.m.
6 p.m.: Salute to Vienna, the World’s Greatest New Year’s Celebration; State Theatre, New Brunswick.
7:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.: Contra dancing, English country dancing, and potluck dessert buffet with Princeton Country Dancers; Suzanne Patterson Center.
8 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.: Central Jersey Dance Society Ballroom Blitz dance; Unitarian Church, 50 Cherry Hill Road.
8 and 10:30 p.m.: Stand-Up Comic Joe DeVito; Catch A Rising Star Comedy Club, Princeton Hyatt Regency, Route 1.
New Year’s Day
1 and 3 p.m.: Laser Nutcracker Spectacular; New Jersey State Museum Planetarium, 205 West State Street, Trenton. Also Sunday at 1 and 3 p.m.
1 to 2:30 p.m.: Tour, “The Battle of Princeton: How History Happened Right Here”; Historical Society of Princeton, 158 Nassau Street. For children ages 6 and up.
3 p.m.: Practitioners of Musick; Firestone Library, Princeton University. Free.
7:30 p.m.: Discussion with interfaith group Not in Our Town, “Continuing Conversations on Race and White Privilege”; Princeton Public Library.
8 p.m.: Zach and Willie improvisational theater; Whitman Theater, Princeton University. Also Friday and Saturday at 8 and 10:30 p.m.
7 p.m.: Children’s Letters to God; Kelsey Theatre, Mercer County Community College. Also Saturday at 2 and 7 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m.
7:30 p.m.: Puppets In Space puppet theater; Matthews Studio, Lewis Center for the Arts. 185 Nassau Street.
8 p.m.: Fetch Clay, Make Man; McCarter Theatre. Also Saturday at 3 and 8 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m.
8 p.m.: Dance Improv; All Saints’ Church, 16 All Saints’ Road.
3 p.m.: “Comedy Cavalcade” screening of silent films of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Laurel and Hardy; Paul Robeson Center for the Arts.
7:30 p.m.: Pianist John Novacek; Bucks County Performing Arts Center, Yardley Community Centre, 64 South Main Street, Yardley, Pa.
8 p.m.: New Jersey Symphony Orchestra; State Theatre, New Brunswick.
8 p.m.: Princeton University Orchestra; Richardson Auditorium. Free.
5 p.m.: Talk, “Liguria Lost and Found,” by Laura Schenone, author of The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken; Dorothea’s House, 120 John Street.
7:30 p.m.: Reading by Delaware Valley Poets Gina and John Larkin; Barnes & Noble, MarketFair Mall, Route 1.
7:30 p.m.: World Cineclub screening of Nadine Labaki’s Caramel; Princeton Public Library. Free.
7:30 p.m. Hairspray; Sun National Bank Center, Trenton.
7:30 p.m.: Fetch Clay, Make Man; McCarter Theatre. Also Wednesday and Thursday at 7:30 p.m., Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 3 and 8 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m.
8 p.m.: Jazz Vespers; Princeton University Chapel. Free.
8 p.m.: Benefit concert celebrating 96th birthday of William H. Scheide, with Vienna Chamber Orchestra; Richardson Auditorium.
7 to 8:30 p.m.: Latin American Task Force Ask-a-Lawyer Program; Princeton Public Library.
7 p.m.: Panel discussion on Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder; Gymnasium, Riverside School, 58 Riverside Drive.
8 p.m.: University Jazz Vespers Ensemble; Princeton University Chapel. Free.
7 p.m.: Children’s Letters to God; Kelsey Theatre, Mercer County Community College. Also Saturday at 2 and 7 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m.
7:30 p.m.: New Jersey Symphony Orchestra; Patriots Theater at the War Memorial, Trenton.
8 p.m.: Princeton University Advanced Workshop in Musical Composition; Taplin Auditorium, Fine Hall, Princeton University. Free.
8:15 p.m.: Princeton Folk Music Society concert with emma’s revolution; Christ Congregation Church, 50 Walnut Lane.
2 p.m.: Violin Master Class with Midori for Princeton University violin students; Taplin Auditorium, Fine Hall, Princeton University. Free.