April 18
Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo
The Joint
It’s 2015 — is love still a battlefield? I mean, it’s been 32 years; you’d think someone would’ve won by now. There’s only one way to find out: seeing this show. 8p, $39.50-$175, hardrockhotel.com
April 24
Mr. Burns
Art Square Theater
Anne Washburn’s dark comedy mashes up the fall of civilization, the “Cape Feare” episode of The Simpsons, the evolution of pop culture into mythology and the enduring power of live theater. Through May 10, $16-$20, cockroachtheatre.com
April 23
Paul Koudounaris
The Writer’s Block
He sees dead people — that is, corpses and skeletons used in cultural rituals. And photographs them. And puts those photographs in books, like last month’s Memento Mori. And goes around with a slideshow of those photographs and talks about them. 7p, 1020 Fremont St., thewritersblock.org
April 11
Great Las Vegas Festival of Beer
Downtown
Said to be Nevada’s largest craft-beer festival, with 300 beers from 100 brewer … what? We had you at “craft beer”? Well, you GO, Barney Gumble! 3-7p, Fremont East Entertainment District, $30 and up (with $40 early entry and $75 VIP tickets), greatvegasbeer.com
All month
Allison Streater
Winchester Gallery
Thwarted desire is the theme of Streater’s mixed-media collages: Models clipped from fashion catalogs — where their clothing and surroundings represented a lifestyle the artist can’t afford — are placed into settings based more closely on Streater’s own life. 702-455-7340