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Arts & Culture

This week’s 5 best bets for arts & culture in Las Vegas

Our arts picks this week include Las Vegas Little Theatre’s production of “A Little Night Music” and the Las Vegas Philharmonic performing works by Beethoven and Mozart.

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‘The Mountaintop’ shows different side of Martin Luther King Jr.

Broadway in the Hood’s production of Katori Hall’s award-winning drama begins a four-performance run Friday — the launch of the long Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend — at The Smith Center’s Troesh Studio Theater.

Buddy Greco’s lasting message: ‘Be true to yourself’

Buddy Greco headlined at such legendary hotel-casinos as the Sands, Desert Inn and Flamingo during his years in Las Vegas. His final public appearance was at the venerable Italian American Club in August 2015.

Why actor Bryan Cranston prefers theater

“There is nothing quite the same as being onstage and being able to have a relationship with an audience that feeds you,” Cranston said.

Detective work helped Las Vegas museum present Les Folies Bergère items

When the Nevada State Museum, Las Vegas acquired more than 8,000 costumes and other items from Les Folies Bergere, they came with a mystery. Two women have been unraveling it with the help of photographs, first-person accounts and a little dancing.

Small theaters provide culture in east valley

In a town where you can see circus performers, superstar musicians, and the topless undead, it can be a challenge for thought-provoking productions — based on subtle wordplay and nuanced acting — to get noticed. Several of the valley’s most interesting theaters, productions and spaces are in east valley.

Sessions throughout valley focus on various types of art

Many art educators contend that drawing from life and, in particular, drawing from the figure is the foundation of all other arts. Others say life drawing is not a means to an end, but an end in itself. Either way, those interested in life drawing have weekly and monthly options in the Arts District.

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