Dom the Bom’s Triple Threat — made up of 8-year-old Henderson triplets Dominic, Lyric and Phoenix Evans — is set to perform Aug. 19 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City as competitors in the ABC television show “America’s Got Talent.”
Arts & Culture
When you go to a musical — a good one, anyway — you leave the theater whistling the score. But if you see “Ghost the Musical” — which concludes its first and, we presume, only national tour at The Smith Center through Sunday — you leave whistling the set. And the special effects.
Event highlights this week include a Chillin’ with Santa Hawaiian Luau luncheon, a concert by the Barry Ross Quartet and an open house at the Landero Learning Center.
Move over, studded bracelets and chandelier earrings. Right now, it’s all about nails. Rhinestones, 3-D designs, textured topcoats and new offerings from fashion royalty have upped the ante on fingertips, said Kahlana Barfield, beauty director for InStyle magazine.
Las Vegas Little Theatre will present free previews of its 2014-15 season — including selections from the Tony-winning “Amadeus” and “Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike” — this weekend.
The proposed Cultural Corridor Theatre Center is dropping its downtown location — at the former Reed Whipple Cultural Center — for Town Square, where a new Clark County Theatre Center will be built.
I once saw an actress who played Martha in Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” in an actual black fright wig.
For years, Oscar-winning screenwriter Bruce Joel Rubin resisted the idea of a stage musical based on his 1990 Hollywood hit “Ghost” — until he teamed up with a Tony-winning director and Grammy-winning songwriters.
Enchanted fairy-tale creatures wave their freak flags at Spring Mountain Ranch during Super Summer Theatre’s “Shrek the Musical” in an exuberant presentation by Feral Tale Theatricals.
The troupe’s 2014-15 season, themed “#LeadUsNot,” includes two world premieres — one of them to be staged at a local motel — and the local debut of “Spring Awakening,” the Tony-winning rock musical.
Here are a few tidbits from the pop culture world that happened to catch our eye.
While most people are familiar with the role organized crime played in the casino industry in Las Vegas, the connections between the mafia here and in Cuba are often overlooked.
Event highlights this week include an All-City Synchronized Swimming Show, the La Oportunidad EXPO, a production of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and Hot Havana Nights at the Mob Museum.
There’s talent galore in this valley. One needn’t spend hundreds of dollars to see it, either. All you need to do is high-tail it to one of the more than 150 productions presented during the course of a year. And, if you need further proof of that, the new theater awards should do it.
Sin City Opera leads off its 2014-15 season with a free, English-language production of Mozart’s “Magic Flute” at downtown’s Container Park.
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