Restoring “Little Mickey Grogan” will involve painstaking work, but could produce a fascinating look at the silent movie era.
Arts & Culture
Our arts picks this week include “The Wiz” at The Smith Center and “Yousuf Karsh: Icons of the 20th Century” at Bellagio’s Gallery of Fine Arts.
Four centuries after his death, William Shakespeare’s words, and works, remain as alive as ever. Las Vegans will have the chance to peruse the volume that introduced the Bard’s plays as “First Folio! The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare” continues on display at UNLV’s Lied Library through Sept. 29.
It may be based on William Shakespeare’s “A Comedy of Errors.” But, if he were here to watch “Bomb-itty of Errors,” the Bard might not recognize the zany mistaken-identity romp beneath those beats — and those rhymes.
About 500 miles from Las Vegas, a blank stretch of desert has been transformed into a functioning city for just more than a week through the efforts of both organizers and the attendees themselves.
Our arts picks this week include the country quartet Ghostlight performing in Lorenzi Park and two free events headlined by four-time National Poetry Slam champion Patricia Smith.
All roads lead to Vegas — including ancient Rome’s. The exhibit “Ancient Rome: The Empire That Shaped the World” is on display at the Las Vegas Natural History Museum through Sept. 19.
You can still find examples of traditional theater in Las Vegas. But some local companies are betting on the audience’s growing appetite for new, offbeat and otherwise challenging theatrical fare.
Statues of a nude Donald Trump sparked a furor Thursday when they were discovered in Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Cleveland and New York. Within hours, red-headed Las Vegas-based artist “Ginger,” whose real name is Joshua Monroe, was in the spotlight.
It sounds like one of those only-in-Vegas cliches: nursing by day, opera by night. But for Skip Galla, that’s life.
After two years as the Onyx Theatre’s producing director, Troy Heard is departing the Commercial Center playhouse for the new Majestic Repertory Theatre.
Our arts picks this week include sax masters Dave Koz and David Sanborn at The Smith Center.
Cheng Yajie’s Vegas visions — and other examples of his award-winning work — begin an extended Southern Nevada stay with the exhibit “A Las Vegas Symphony,” which continues through Oct. 1 at the Sahara West Library’s Studio gallery.
This highly anticipated event at the Mandalay Bay showcased the latest in men and women’s apparel.
The Nevada State Museum’s Las Vegas branch boasts such a treasure trove of Western memorabilia that True West magazine just named it one of its top 10 Western museums for 2016.