Arts & Culture
The Las Vegas Academy’s “Big River,” based on “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” opens tonight at the Lowden Theater with Mark Twain’s infamous N-word references intact. It will be spoken approximately 15 times in each of six shows.
Community theater companies come and go, arriving with grand pronouncements of artistic intent, then folding the tents. Others stick, producing a handful of mainstream shows each season. Still others specialize, confining themselves to offbeat, fringe and out-there theater. Then there’s Las Vegas Little Theatre, the city’s longest-running nonprofit theater.