Arts and exhibitions in Lawrenceville: November 2026

November on Lawrenceville’s stages opens with an orchestra and choir concert Saturday, Nov. 7, and turns to the holidays by the 20th. Country artist Maggie Baugh plays Nov. 14, the same day the Hudgens Center opens three new shows. Southern Ballet Theatre’s A Very Grinchy Christmas (Nov. 20-22) and Aurora Theatre’s Christmas Canteen (from Nov. 19) lead into the Gwinnett Symphony’s Holiday Pops Dec. 5-6.

Last checked Nov. 2, 2026. Listings run from today to about six weeks ahead and come from the Lawrenceville Arts Center calendar, Aurora Theatre, the Downtown Lawrenceville calendar, Gwinnett County’s fall 2026 program guide and the Hudgens Center for Art & Learning. This page is refreshed through the month. For everything else, see things to do this month and this weekend.

Updated Nov. 2: retitled for November; Halloween shows dropped; the Holiday Science Show and Holiday Magic Extravaganza added; Nutcracker tickets go on sale Nov. 19.

Updated Oct. 25: October’s shows and the Hudgens fall exhibitions have closed; November concerts, the Grinchy ballet, Josue Comedy and Holiday Pops are added.

Box office and getting there

• Lawrenceville Arts Center and Aurora Theatre box office: 678-226-6222, boxoffice@auroratheatre.com; 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, noon to 5 p.m. Saturday
• Where: the arts center is at 125 N. Clayton St.; Aurora Theatre’s stages are at 128 E. Pike St.
• Parking: free in the city’s downtown decks and lots; from Nov. 1 the Green and Silver lots are closed for the Christkindl Market. See getting around

Exhibitions now showing

• Painted Treasures & Hearty Moments, through Dec. 31, at the Bethesda Park Senior Center in Lawrenceville, listed in Gwinnett County’s fall program guide.
• Autumn Exhibition, through Nov. 30, at George Pierce Park in Suwanee, about eight miles northwest, from the same guide.
• At the Hudgens Center for Art & Learning, 6400 Sugarloaf Parkway, Building 300, in Duluth, about 10 miles west, three new shows open Saturday, Nov. 14, and run to Jan. 23, 2027, according to the Hudgens. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
• La Próxima Pisca, José Ibarra Rizo’s new photographs on migration, identity and belonging in the American South, Fowler Gallery.
• Our Autumn Harvest, a 20th-anniversary collage show from the Atlanta Collage Society, Rowe Promenade Gallery.
• The 16th Annual Hudgens Juried Members’ Show, Georgia Gallery.

Theater and dance

• Dad’s Garage Comedy brings the Atlanta improv troupe’s made-up-on-the-spot scenes and games (details).
• Christmas Canteen, Aurora’s holiday revue, runs Nov. 19 to Dec. 23. Every showtime is on our Christmas Canteen page.
• Southern Ballet Theatre’s A Very Grinchy Christmas plays 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 20, 2:30 and 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 21, and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 22 (details).
• Josué Comedy’s Madre Latina is a family-friendly stand-up show about the Latina mother, suitable for all ages, tickets from $38 (details).
• Family holiday mornings: The Holiday Science Show, 11:30 a.m. Dec. 5 (details), and The Holiday Magic Extravaganza, 10 a.m. Dec. 12 (details).
• Coming next: Southern Ballet Theatre’s The Nutcracker, Dec. 18-20, with the Lawrenceville Symphony Orchestra; single tickets go on sale Nov. 19. See our Nutcracker page.

Concerts and classical

• Red Clay Ramble: Georgia Music & Harvest Festival, 2 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7, Slow Pour Brewing Co., 407 N. Clayton St. Two stages from 2:15 p.m. with The Threadbare Skivvies, Restless Natives, Sallie, Supper, Devin Shamel and a DJ set by Cam Christian (Downtown Lawrenceville).
• Epic Landscapes: Earth and Sky, 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7, Grand Stage, listed on the downtown calendar as a Lawrenceville Symphony Orchestra concert. An orchestra and choir program of Mendelssohn’s Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, Jacob Evarts’s Concerto for Horn and Orchestra, What a Wonderful World, Blue Skies and John Williams’s Star Wars suite (details).
• The Preview: Lydia Von Hof, 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12 (doors 7:30 p.m.), Bartow and Leslie Morgan Cabaret. The new-artist series hosts the New York folk-rock artist, whose sound takes in country, pop and soul (details).
• LIVE at the LAC: Maggie Baugh, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 14, Grand Stage. The country multi-instrumentalist, with special guest Caroline Keller, a country and Americana artist from Charlotte, North Carolina (details).
• Gwinnett Symphony: Holiday Pops with Joe Gransden, 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 5, and 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 6, Grand Stage. The orchestra and chorus, conducted by Rick Smith and Robert Trocina, with the singer and trumpeter Joe Gransden: carols, sing-alongs and “Kids Conduct Sleigh Ride” (Dec. 5, Dec. 6).

Talks and film

• National Geographic Live: Wild Cats Revealed, 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 8, Grand Stage. Filmmaker and National Geographic Explorer Sandesh Kadur on India’s lesser-known wild cats (details).

Regular events

• Hudgens galleries are open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday (Hudgens).
• Christmas Canteen plays Thursday to Sunday most weeks from Nov. 19, with 2:30 p.m. weekend matinees. See our Christmas Canteen page.

Send us your event

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Frequently asked questions

What is on at the Lawrenceville Arts Center in November 2026?

Science Exploration LIVE! Nov. 3, Dad’s Garage Comedy Nov. 6, Epic Landscapes: Earth and Sky Nov. 7, National Geographic Live Nov. 8, The Preview with Lydia Von Hof Nov. 12, Maggie Baugh Nov. 14, Southern Ballet Theatre’s A Very Grinchy Christmas Nov. 20-22 and Josue Comedy Nov. 28, according to the arts center’s calendar.

Are there art exhibitions in Lawrenceville this fall?

Gwinnett County lists Painted Treasures & Hearty Moments at the Bethesda Park Senior Center through Dec. 31. The Hudgens Center in Duluth opens three new shows Nov. 14, running to Jan. 23, 2027.

When is Holiday Pops in Lawrenceville?

The Gwinnett Symphony’s Holiday Pops with Joe Gransden is 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 5, and 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 6, on the arts center’s Grand Stage.

When does Christmas Canteen 2026 open?

Aurora Theatre lists Christmas Canteen from Nov. 19 to Dec. 23. Every showtime is on our Christmas Canteen page.