Your 5 best bets for arts and culture in the week ahead

'Lady Day'

Technically, it's 2016 at The Smith Center's Cabaret Jazz. But the Tony-winning "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill" transports audiences back to a seedy Philadelphia bar where legendary, legendarily troubled singer Billie Holiday (Genevieve Dew) delivers one of her final performances only a few months before her death. Broadway in the Hood stages the musical drama at 8 p.m. Friday and 3 and 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; for tickets ($34), call 702-749-2000 or visit www.thesmithcenter.com.

'Hamlet'

The Utah Shakespeare Festival's touring, 70-minute version of "Hamlet" is spending two weeks at the College of Southern Nevada's Nicholas J. Horn Theatre, playing to local students during its 14-week tour. But public audiences can feel the Bard too — at 7:30 p.m. Friday and 2 p.m. Saturday; for tickets ($12 general admission, $10 students and seniors), call 702-651-5483.

'Cosi Fan Tutte'

"Women are like that" — at least in Mozart's "Cosi Fan Tutte (Women Are Like That)," which combines disguises, attempted seductions, seeming betrayals and, ultimately, a happy ending. (It's a comic opera, after all.) Sin City Opera's updated, English-language romp will be staged at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday and Feb. 19-21 at Winchester Cultural Center, 3130 S. McLeod Drive. For tickets ($15), call 702-455-7340.

'Geek!'

An Ohio comic-con filled with costumed fantasy fans provides the backdrop for a pair of geeky teen outcasts to meet their anime idol — and face their own real-life dramas — in Crystal Skillman's "Geek!" The play continues at the Onyx Theatre, 953 E. Sahara Ave., through Feb. 27; performances are 8 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays (plus a 5 p.m. matinee Feb. 21). For tickets ($10-$20), call 702-732-7225 or visit www.onyxtheatre.com.

'Sharing the Love'

The power of the arts to change lives takes center stage at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the West Las Vegas Library, 951 W. Lake Mead Blvd., when the free dance program "Sharing the Love" — featuring the Rolle Project and the 6 O'Clock Dance Theatre — teams professional dancers and young counterparts. For more information, call 702-507-3989.

— Carol Cling