Holbrook reprises Twain role: Mark Twain returns to UNLV Saturday, courtesy of actor Hal Holbrook in “Mark Twain Tonight!”
Arts & Culture
The Tony-winning musical “In the Heights” makes its Las Vegas debut — not at The Smith Center, but at the Las Vegas Academy.
Smith Center President Myron Martin kicked up his heels Tuesday evening — in a pair of red, sequined, spike-heeled, thigh-high boots — to announce the center’s 2014-15 Broadway Las Vegas series, led by “Kinky Boots.”
A South Florida artist is facing a criminal charge after police say he smashed a $1 million vase at Miami’s new art museum to protest what he called its favoritism for international rather than local art.
Cockroach Theatre’s premiere presentation of resident playwright Ernie Curcio’s “Corner of Hacienda” drew a packed house. And rightly so, as it’s about time we have a play set in Las Vegas featuring the quirky people who live here.
The 21st installment of the Rainbow Company Youth Theatre’s Nevada Series, “Spinning Nevada’s Past,” fittingly premiered at the Historic Fifth Street School. This time, the play is part of our state’s sesquicentennial, the 150th anniversary of statehood.
With thousands of posters and movie memorabilia overflowing from his collection, Buddy Barnett knew he had more than enough merchandise to open a store. Now nearly 20 years later, business is dwindling, causing him to close his store.
Opening Valentine’s Day at Bellagio’s Gallery of Fine Art, “Painting Women: Works from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,” showcases 34 paintings by women artists, including Mary Cassatt and Georgia O’Keeffe, spanning the 19th and 20th centuries — and illustrating women’s quest to become artists, not just subjects for artists.
Little Theatre opens Agatha Christie mystery: Marooned on a remote island, 10 strangers are accused of murder, one by one. And, one by one, they start to die.
When the Rainbow Company Youth Theatre presents “Spinning Nevada’s Past” this weekend at the Historic Fifth Street School, audiences will notice in the production something they don’t see in most other plays.
The Silver Statesmen Barbershop Chorus plan to offer singing valentines Feb. 14-16. Teams of barbershop quartets hope to fan out over the valley and sing to hundreds of sweethearts.
“I think the interesting thing about the music for (Into the Heights) is that it’s predominantly rapping and hip-hop, which is very different from the traditional musical theater style,” said theater instructor Megan Ahern, who is directing the show at Las Vegas Academy, a public arts magnet high school. “It’s set in present-day Washington Heights (a neighborhood in New York City). It’s very urban-looking and all the dancing is hip-hop and salsa at its base because it’s a Hispanic community. We think it will be fun for the audience, something they haven’t seen before.”
On this night 50 years ago I was 7, gathered around a black-and-white TV set, watching “The Ed Sullivan Show.” That Ed Sullivan show. The one with the Beatles.
A beautiful symmetry occurs on stage during Nevada Conservatory Theatre’s impressive presentation of Theresa Rebeck’s comedy “Seminar.” Live theater is the ultimate collaboration, and here we see all its elements, of both the human and technical kind, coming together in perfect harmony and existing in symbiotic relationship.
Banjo master Bela Fleck makes his third visit to The Smith Center in three years, this time teaming with classical string quartet Brooklyn Rider.
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