David Mamet channels Henry James in “Boston Marriage,” a fascinating play about women that is being presented at Las Vegas Little Theatre’s Black Box under the direction of David McKee.
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What better way to herald the fall weather than with the cool sounds of jazz? The outdoor Las Vegas Jazz Festival is planned for Sept. 19-21 on the grounds of the JW Marriott.
The Tony-winning musical “Kinky Boots” — kicking off its year-long national tour through Sunday at The Smith Center — struts its stuff with irresistible, pump-you-up energy, demonstrating that a show cobbled together from the most familiar elements can display exemplary craftsmanship.
In the play “California Suite” it’s love 1970s style in the signature Neil Simon way, and in a solid presentation by Off Strip Productions in association with Chaos Theatre Co. and Olde English Productions, it starts with solemn wordplay and ends in frenzied mayhem.
On Tuesday, hundreds of items producer David O. Selznick saved, including dresses worn in the film, scripts, story boards and other things, will go on display at the University of Texas’ Harry Ransom Center as part of a 75th anniversary tribute, “The Making of Gone With the Wind.”
The Tony-winning musical “Kinky Boots,” which began a 10-day run Thursday night at The Smith Center for the Performing Arts, launches its yearlong national tour from Vegas.
Every year, Arlene DeBrito and her employees spend two days preparing almost 100 flavors of homemade chocolates and hand-dipped apples to sell at the Las Vegas Harvest Festival.
“Arsenic and Old Lace,” by Joseph Kesselring, is an old milquetoast comedy that was a community theater staple for years. What seemed risque in 1941 is so mild by today’s standards, you would expect it to have been abandoned, even by high school theaters.
For September, First Friday arts festival planners are set to put on a Harvest Festival celebrating the bounty of the fall season.
A vibrant mural from the Rainbow Club reflects off a window of the Encounter Community Church at 133 S. Water Street in Henderson on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014.
Mike Miller has drawn his last cartoon for View. He spoke recently from a hospice in Southern California and was in good spirits.
This year’s Burning Man festival attracts a peak crowd of almost 66,000 on its final day. Only about half of whom now remember being there at all.
The stages may be different sizes. The plays may be from different decades. But a laugh’s a laugh. And the two vintage comedies opening this weekend — “Arsenic and Old Lace” at Spring Mountain Ranch and Neil Simon’s “California Suite” at the Onyx Theatre — are poised to generate plenty of them.
Arts events around town, including theater (“Boston Marriage,” “The Things They Carried”), family fun (“You Bet Your Wildlife” at Springs Preserve), music (Las Vegas Jazz Society and Las Vegas Performing Arts Society) and more.
Too much of a good thing can be wonderful — as Mae West, a renowned playwright (among other things), once remarked. By those standards, Mae would have embraced Las Vegas’ 2014-15 theater season with gleeful gusto. From Tony-winning musicals to edgy theatrical experiences to world premieres, this season’s offerings reflect the Las Vegas theater community’s increasing maturity.