In order to find old school Vegas, Lena Prima had to move to New Orleans. Prima, who is performing Aug. 20 at the Suncoast, was born in Las Vegas and grew up with her father Louis Prima’s legacy.
Arts & Culture
It’s the ever-popular tortured artist effect: a solitary painter wrestling with creative challenge. But that’s not the only method of making art.
The cheerleading musical begins a 12-performance run Wednesday at Spring Mountain Ranch State Park.
Our arts picks this week include the immersive murder mystery “The Cat’s Meow” the Velveteen Rabbit.
A lot of artists talk about suffering and struggle, but few have lived them like Las Vegas artist Dave Dave. When Dave — formerly known as David Rothenberg — was 6, his father tried to kill him by setting him on fire in a California hotel room.
The Nevada Clay Guild is taking things to the next level with its exhibit “All About Clay,” planned at the Summerlin Library through Aug. 21.
The stage is set for an “Art Attack” at August’s First Friday, the monthly arts and culturehappening in Las Vegas’ downtown arts district.
Those who consider the Oscar-winning 1965 movie version holy writ (and/or have never seen the beloved Rodgers and Hammerstein musical in theatrical form) may be taken aback by some of the differences between stage and screen. You may discover a few things you never knew — or noticed with this version of “Sound of Music” visiting The Smith Center.
Take a look behind the scenes as the stage crew prepares for “The Sound of Music” at Reynolds Hall at the Smith Center for the Performing Arts.
The daily R.A.G.E. classes feature instruction in various dance styles, from hip-hop to ballet, along with acrobatics and musical theater. They also give students a new outlook.
On a sweltering Friday evening in downtown Las Vegas, more than two dozen people sweat it out inside The Beat coffeehouse eagerly waiting to hear … poetry?
You may think you know “The Sound of Music.” Doesn’t everyone? But “the movie is not at all the show,” observes director Jack O’Brien, who brings a new touring production of the musical to The Smith Center for a 16-performance run.
Our arts picks this week include “Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs” at The Smith Center.
Las Vegas may be a world unto itself. But there are worlds within that world — and those are the worlds that Johnson explores in her solo show “No Ordinary Life.”
The Nevada Ballet Theatre dancer, who’ll begin her third season with NBT this fall, graduated four years ago from New York’s prestigious School of American Ballet. This summer she returned as a teacher.