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Mike Weatherford

Shows seek new shine in spiffier spaces

If they can’t make the entertainment new and different, how about the places where we see it?

Plenty to look at during ‘X Rocks’

I’m not sure how to feel about this: There is so much going on in “X Rocks,” I would forget from time to time that I was looking at topless women.

Fourth-place finishers to play Las Vegas first

“America’s Got Talent” always promises its winner will become “a Las Vegas headliner.” But this year it looks as though the fourth-place TV finisher will be the first to play Las Vegas solo billed.

Britney’s residency tests pop appeal

Still not sure if Britney barfed. But even if the helicopter ride was shaky, the pop princess has finally touched down in the desert, and soon we’ll learn more about the future of live entertainment in Las Vegas.

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Mo5aic will get Vegas show at last

It took a long time for Mo5aic to open its own show in Las Vegas. But the group at least waited long enough for a cappella to be cool.

‘Dancing Queen’ strives for ‘bigger, sexier’ show at Planet Hollywood

Twenty dancers burn their way through the title song of “Dancing Queen,” proving the British producer has not made a shallow promise to deliver “a huge amount of energy” in a “bigger, glitzier, sexier” version than the dance revue’s first incarnation on the Strip.

Fuss over The Act ironic

The court feud over the entertainment offered in a nightclub called The Act reminds me of a favorite “Beavis and Butt-head” quote: “That was beyond the limits of good taste.”

New show lets pair keep skin in game

“Peepshow” is set to close today. But fear not, fans of topless casino entertainment. Angela Stabile is watching out for you.

Skilled performers put hot flash in ‘Menopause’

Jeanie Linders, the creator of “Menopause The Musical” noted recently that the title subject used to be “something women didn’t talk about.”

Glimpsing future, on hand and on balance

“We are the bad boys of hand balancing,” the KriStef Brothers proclaim on “America’s Got Talent.”

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