Things to Do: December 16-22

City Ballet’s Nutcracker at Spreckels Theater

City Ballet’s Nutcracker at Spreckels TheaterPhoto by Arlene Ibarra

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December 16:

’Tis the season for Sugar Plum Fairies. Your choice: The City Ballet’s Nutcracker at Spreckels Theater, California Ballet’s version at the Civic, or the Moscow Ballet’s Great Russian Nutcracker at Copley Symphony Hall.

December 20:

Rock out at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center with Guitar: The Instrument that Rocked the World making its West Coast premiere.