Las Vegas fall arts and entertainment: The season’s can't-miss concerts, festivals, theater, art shows and more

Las Vegas fall arts and entertainment: The season’s can't‑miss concerts, festivals, theater, art shows and more Thu, Sep 17, 2026 (2 a.m.) **Concerts** Charli XCX brings her Music, Fashion, Film tour to the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Oct. 23, blending rock with a range of influential sounds. The iHeart Radio Music Festival returns Sept. 18‑19 at T‑Mobile Arena, headlined by BTS, Cardi B, Benson Boone, The Smashing Pumpkins and Zara Larsson, with special sets from Major Lazer and Stella Lefty. Chicago alt‑trapper Lucki plays Virgin Hotels Las Vegas on Sept. 23, promoting his recent album *Dr*gs R Bad*. Life Is Sh-- Festival marks its 14th year at Dive Bar on Sept. 26, featuring bands, poets, a new collaborative zine and longtime DIY partners. Metallica launches a 24‑show Sphere residency that runs select dates from Oct. 1 through Mar. 13, alternating nightly sets that let fans step off the saddle and back onto the lightning. Wu‑Tang Clan reunites for the Final Chamber tour on Oct. 3 at T‑Mobile Arena, joined by Mobb Deep. Turnstile teams with Vince Staples, Trash Talk and February for an Oct. 15 show at The Amp at Craig Ranch Regional Park, proceeds benefiting the Nevada Homeless Alliance. Boy Harsher brings its darkwave sound to House of Blues on Oct. 20, pushing the genre’s boundaries with minimal, chiseled instrumentation. Additional concerts include Anthony Hamilton with Musiq Soulchild (Sept. 19, Virgin Hotels); Twin Temple with Frankie and the Witch Fingers (Sept. 23, The Portal); Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis (Sept. 23‑Oct. 3, Voltaire); Social Distortion (Sept. 25, the Chelsea); Art Garfunkel (Sept. 25, Reynolds Hall); High Stakes Festival (Sept. 25‑26, Area15’s A‑Lot); Foo Fighters with Queens of the Stone Age (Sept. 26, Allegiant Stadium); Isaiah Rashad (Sept. 26, Brooklyn Bowl); Dominic Fike (Sept. 26, Virgin Hotels); Breaking Benjamin (Oct. 2, Michelob Ultra Arena); Diana Ross (Oct. 2‑4, Encore Theater); The War on Drugs (Oct. 2, Pearl Theater); Jack White (Oct. 2, BleauLive Theater); Lynyrd Skynyrd (Oct. 3, Pearl Theater); Brandon Flowers (Oct. 5‑6, Encore Theater); Empire of the Sun (Oct. 9, PH Live); Salt‑n‑Pepa, En Vogue and TLC (Oct. 9, BleauLive Theater); Dinosaur Jr. (Oct. 9, Brooklyn Bowl); Undertale (Oct. 10, Resorts World Theatre); The Wallflowers (Oct. 10, Zouk Nightclub); Schoolboy Q (Oct. 17, Brooklyn Bowl); Las Vegas Philharmonic: Beethoven (Oct. 17, Reynolds Hall); Logic and G‑Eazy with Juicy J (Oct. 18, BleauLive Theater); Weezer with the Shins and Silversun Pickups (Oct. 23, T‑Mobile Arena); Jim Henson’s Labyrinth In Concert (Oct. 25, Pearl Theater); Chief Keef (Oct. 29, Brooklyn Bowl); Yandel (Oct. 29, PH Live); Ricky Martin (Oct. 30‑31, BleauLive Theater); Doja Cat with Latto (Oct. 31, T‑Mobile Arena); Jodeci (Oct. 31, Pearl Theater); The Psychedelic Furs (Nov. 6, Zouk Nightclub); Danny Elfman with the Las Vegas Philharmonic (Nov. 13‑14, Resorts World Theatre); Lisa (Nov. 13‑14 & 27‑28, the Colosseum); Hook In Concert (Nov. 14, Reynolds Hall); Katseye (Nov. 14, MGM Grand Garden Arena); Neon City Festival (Nov. 22‑24, Downtown Las Vegas). **Stage** *Oh, Mary!* arrives at the Smith Center’s Reynolds Hall Oct. 6‑11. Written by Cole Escola in 2009, the play imagines Mary Todd Lincoln as a depressed, mercurial alcoholic obsessed with cabaret. After fifteen years of development, the Tony‑winning tour lands in Las Vegas with drag superstar Alaska as Mary and J. Harrison Ghee—Tony winner for *Kinky Boots*—as a less‑than‑honest Abe. Ghee commented, “Because it’s not historically based … I get to just walk in and make choices, and that’s the fun of it,” adding, “It is genuinely a silly filter on these people you think you know.” He also said, “The circumstances are ridiculous, but this is these people’s reality, and so the whole audience gets to step into a moment that is just happening,” and noted, “You get to kind of be voyeuristic in this way of being like, oh, I’m dropping in on this moment, and you’ve got to just get on the train and go.” Other stage offerings include *Scream’d: The Final Encore* (through Nov. 21 at Majestic Repertory Theatre); *Carmina Burana & Serenade* by Nevada Ballet Theatre (Oct. 2‑4, Reynolds Hall); *The Phantom of the Opera* (Oct. 21‑Nov. 1, Reynolds Hall, Smith Center Broadway Series); *The Book of Mormon* (Nov. 4‑15, Venetian Theatre); plus encore runs of *Beauty and the Beast* (through Sept. 20, Reynolds Hall), *Rumberas Show* (Sept. 25, Vegas Theatre Company), *Stick and Bunny* (Sept. 26, Vegas Theatre Company), *A Public Fit: You Will Get Sick* (Sept. 25‑26, Clark County Library), *Nevada Conservatory Theatre: Big Love* (Sept. 25‑Oct. 4, Ham Fine Arts Black Box), *Cringe* (Oct. 3‑Nov. 1, Vegas Theatre Company), *UNLV Dance: Golden Glow* (Oct. 2‑3, Judy Bayley Theatre) and *Elf the Musical* (Nov. 24‑29, Reynolds Hall). **Visual Arts** Perry Porter’s *The Renaissance Man* runs through Sept. 22 at West Las Vegas Library, portraying Black muses such as Grace Jones and Annie Christmas. Manny Perez’s *Neither Here Nor There* remains on view through Nov. 15 at West Charleston Library, merging his Puerto Rican practice with his family’s Korean roots. *Crecer/Nunai* explores Latinx and Indigenous experiences through works by Avis Charley, Brian Martinez, Xochil Xitlalli and others, showing through Nov. 21 at Nuwu Art Gallery. Additional exhibitions: Isaias Hiram Urrabazo’s *The Return* (through Nov. 30, Sahara West Library); Lara Tomlin’s *NY/NJ/NV* (through Dec. 6, Summerlin Library); Krishn Amrit’s *Mona Bambha* (through Nov. 22, Whitney Library Gallery); Jamie Zepeda’s *La Salida del Sol* (through Oct. 20, East Las Vegas Library); Rachel “Ray” Jackson Shabazz’s *Lucid Dreams of a Vivid Wilderness* (Oct. 20‑Jan. 10, Spring Valley Library); *Facing Change: Mexican Masking Today* (Oct. 23‑May 22, Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art); Krystal Ramirez’s *More* (Oct. 23‑May 22, same venue); Sasan N. Chegini’s *Ingress: A Photopoetry Exhibition* (Oct. 23‑May 22, Barrick Museum); Ali Fathollahi’s *Between Two Terms* (Oct. 23‑May 22, Barrick Museum); Rahima Schwenkbeck’s *Signs of Us* (Nov. 5‑Jan. 30, Sahara West Library); Rita Schoonmaker’s *Desert Vib