A roundup of arts events taking place around the state, through Dec. 4:

POP/ROCK/FOLK

• Brian Wilson, along with fellow Beach Boys Al Jardine and Blondie Chaplin, are doing something a little different from what they’ve done in the past on their current tour, performing 1964’s The Beach Boys’ Christmas Album in its entirety, as well as songs from Wilson’s 2005 release, What I Really Want for Christmas. (I’m assuming there will still be room in the setlist for some non-seasonal material, as well.) The tour comes to BergenPAC in Englewood, Dec. 4 at 8 p.m.

Meanwhile, The Beach Boys (featuring original member Mike Love and longtime member Bruce Johnston) will bring their Reason for the Season Christmas Tour to the Mayo Performing Arts Center in Morristown, Dec. 1 at 8 p.m.

• The New York-based klezmer group The Klezmatics — who set lyrics that Woody Guthrie had written about Hanukkah to music on their 2007 album, Woody Guthrie’s Happy Joyous Hanukkah — will present a show of the same name at the South Orange Performing Arts Center, Nov. 29 at 7:30 p.m.

• Todd S. Purdum, author of “Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Broadway Revolution,” and Ted Chapin, president and chief creative officer of the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization, will talk about the famed songwriting team, and the husband-and-wife team of singer Jessica Molaskey and singer-guitarist John Pizzarelli Jr. will perform some of their songs, in a show titled “Something Wonderful: Celebrating the Songs of Rodgers & Hammerstein,” Dec. 4 at 7:30 p.m. at the Victoria Theater at NJPAC in Newark.

COURTESY OF BERNETT MANAGEMENT

• Ex-spouses Loudon Wainwright III and Suzzy Roche (of The Roches) and their daughter and fellow singer-songwriter, Lucy Wainwright Roche, will team up for a show titled “All in a Family,” Nov. 30 at 8 p.m. at the South Orange Performing Arts Center.

• The Newark Museum will present a Holiday Music Jamboree, Dec. 2 from noon to 5 p.m., with performances by rap pioneers The Sugar Hill Gang and The Furious Five (featuring Grandmaster Melle Mel and Scorpio), a karaoke contest, caroling, gallery tours, a multimedia planetarium lecture on the history of holiday music, and more. The Sugar Hill Gang/Furious Five performance will be at 3:30 p.m.

JAZZ

• Brazil-born trumpeter Claudio Roditi will be honored in this year’s edition of the annual Giants of Jazz series at the South Orange Performing Arts Center. The long list of friends, collaborators and admirers who will be on hand to salute him includes the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band, Paquito D’Rivera, Cyrus Chestnut, Antonio Hart, Trio da Paz, Roberta Gambarini, Maucha Adnet, Roseanna Vitro, Romero Lubambo, Nilson Matta, Duduka da Fonseca, T.S. Monk, Dave Stryker and Freddie Hendrix.

CLASSICAL

• Pianist Aaron Diehl will join the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, led by guest conductor Joshua Weilerstein, at Prudential Hall at NJPAC in Newark, Nov. 29 at 1:30 p.m., Nov. 30 at 8 p.m. and Dec. 2 at 3 p.m.; and the State Theatre in New Brunswick, Dec. 1 at 8 p.m. The program will include Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue; Stravinsky’s Suite From The Firebird (1919); Milhaud’s La création du monde; and Florence Price’s Piano Concerto.

THEATER

• “A Doll’s House, Part 2” begins previews at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, Nov. 27, officially opens on Nov. 30, and runs through Dec. 23. Written by Lucas Hnath as a sequel to Henrik Ibsen’s 1879 class “A Doll’s House,” it was first produced in 2016, and ran on Broadway last year, earning a Best Play nomination in the Tonys.

• “The Santaland Diaries” started out as a humorous essay by David Sedaris about working as an Elf in a department store named Santaland. It was later adapted into a one-person play, and will be presented Nov. 29 and Dec. 2, 6-9, 13-16, 20-23 and 26-28 at Congress Hall in Cape May. Showtime is 3 p.m. on Sundays, 7:30 p.m. on other days. (Note: The play is intended for adults, not children.)

DANCE

This week’s “Nutcracker” performances:

• Nov. 30 at 7 p.m.: “The Great Russian Nutcracker,” presented by The Moscow Ballet, at Shea Center for Performing Arts at William Paterson University, Wayne.

• Nov. 30 at 7:30 p.m. and Dec. 2 at 1 p.m. (sensory-friendly performance): “The Nutcracker,” presented by American Repertory Ballet at Union County Performing Arts Center, Rahway.

• Dec. 1 at 1 p.m. (sensory-friendly performance) and 4 p.m., and Dec. 2 at 2 p.m.: “The Nutcracker,” presented by Roxey Ballet at The College of New Jersey’s Kendall Main Stage Theater, Ewing.

• Dec. 1-2 at 1 and 4:30 p.m.: “The Nutcracker,” presented by New Jersey Ballet at BergenPAC, Englewood.



FILM

• “Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas” — a 2017 documentary that will be shown at the Bickford Theatre at the Morris Museum in Morris Township, Dec. 2 at 3 p.m. — tells the story of Jewish songwriters, such as Irving Berlin and Mel Tormé, who wrote classic Christmas songs. After the screening, holiday treats will be served, and some of the songs will be played on the automated instruments in the museum’s Guinness Collection that are on permanent display.

OTHER

• Stephen Colbert will interview three-time Oscar winner (and 21-time nominee) Meryl Streep at a fundraiser for Montclair Film taking place at Prudential Hall at NJPAC in Newark, Dec. 1 at 8 p.m. Montclair Film’s next Montclair Film Festival will take place May 3-12; the organization also presents other screenings and programs, year-round. Colbert, the host of CBS television’s “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” has presented similar benefits in the past, with partners such as Jon Stewart, John Oliver and Samantha Bee. He is on the advisory board of Montclair Film, and his wife Evelyn is the president of its board of trustees.

• The “Frank Sinatra’s Birthday Celebration” show at the Count Basie Center for the Arts in Red Bank, Dec. 2 at 7 p.m., will feature singer Michael Martocci and his Ol’ Blue Eyes Orchestra, plus three cast members from “The Sopranos”: Michael Imperioli (who played Christopher Moltisanti), Vincent Pastore (Sal “Big Pussy” Bonpensiero) and Steve Schirripa (Bobby “Bacala” Baccalieri). According to the theater’s web site, in addition to the music “the Sopranos cast take us behind the scenes of the legendary show — the stories, the dramas, the laughs — not to mention the countless theories about the show’s controversial finale! Steve will also share some of his own intimate and personal Sinatra stories.” (Before becoming an actor, Schirripa was the entertainment director at Las Vegas’ Riviera Hotel and Casino, where Sinatra often performed.) Sinatra was born on Dec. 12, 1915, and died in 1998, at the age of 82.

• Patti Smith will make a rare appearance “in conversation” at the new Indigo bookstore at the Mall at Short Hills, Nov. 27 at 7 p.m. According to the store’s web site, “Line-up will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.” The appearance is scheduled to last until 8 p.m; No other details are available. Though mainly known as a singer-songwriter, Smith has written about 20 books — mostly of her poetry and song lyrics, but also the acclaimed memoirs “Just Kids” (2010) and “M Train” (2015).