Space is the place — at least downtown — thanks to an out-of-this-world First Friday. Or maybe a “Disney on Ice” production is more your speed. These events and much more this weekend.
Arts & Culture
Every year on the first Saturday of May, comic book shops cater to the desires of geek culture and hand out free comic books to all who enter, the super fans.
In John Tomasello’s Storybook Theater class, children don’t just listen to him read books such as “Where the Wild Things Are.”
The revelation of long-buried secrets disrupt a showbiz family’s holiday get-together in “Other Desert Cities,” which concludes Las Vegas Little Theatre’s mainstage season.
While A-listers got snubbed, musicals “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder” and “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” got all the love.
Renee Fleming, sometimes called “the people’s diva,” makes her (public) Las Vegas debut Thursday at The Smith Center with “Guilty Pleasures,” a selection of favorites ranging from opera to Broadway.
Sexual innuendo is high as Las Vegas Little Theatre presents its 2014 New Works Competition Winner “Little Black Book” by Thomas J. Misuraca in their Fischer Black Box. In its firstever production, the show is a keenly hilarious, often bawdy, dramedy.
The Rainbow Company Youth Theatre production of “Ozma of Oz: A Tale of Time,” a stage adaption of the third Oz novel by L. Frank Baum opens on a minimalist set that consists of a stack of rainbow-colored suitcases, a wardrobe shaped box, a bucket and mop and chains hanging from the risers. A child seated behind me asked, “What is the bucket for? What are the chains for?” The child’s father answered wisely, “I don’t know, but we’ll find out.”
Forensic computer experts from Carnegie Mellon University have uncovered previously unseen digital artwork from 60s pop artist Andy Warhol.
Thomas Misuraca’s “Little Black Book,” winner of Las Vegas Little Theatre’s 2014 New Works Competition, opens a three-weekend run Friday in LVLT’s Fischer Black Box space.
Henderson celebrates two anniversaries — the city’s and its weekly farmers’ market — with Saturday’s Heritage Parade and Festival, themed “Let’s Go to the Market.”
For sculptor Dorit Schwartz, her art is all about an appreciation for the organic beauty found in nature. The Summerlin resident’s work will be part of the 30th anniversary of the Mission Federal ArtWalk, scheduled for April 26 and 27 in San Diego, and featured at the St. Jude black tie benefit set for May 3 at The Smith Center.
When Linda Campbell moved to Las Vegas from Los Angeles last fall, she was unaware that the Red Rock Canyon Interpretive Association was looking for artists for its first residency program. Her husband saw the flier and urged her to look into it. Of 20 entrants, she was one of three selected.
Internationally known painter and sculptor Graham Knuttel of Ireland is teaming up with students from the Las Vegas Academy of Arts to paint a mural to be placed on the Neonopolis building.
The Las Vegas Philharmonic’s new music director, Donato Cabrera, announced details of the orchestra’s 2014-15 season, but due to prior commitments he’ll only be conducting some of the concerts.
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