Everyone’s favorite ogre returns as “Shrek the Musical” begins a 12-performance run Wednesday at Super Summer Theatre at Spring Mountain Ranch State Park.
Arts & Culture
CSN goes backstage — to the Cheyenne campus’ BackStage Theatre — for all four 2014-15 theater productions, which include classics by Anton Chekhov and Tom Stoppard.
The Prodigy Dance Crew is set to take the world by storm once again. It plans to compete in the World Hip Hop Dance Championship set for 7 p.m Aug. 10 at the Orleans Arena. The team emerged as the USA hip-hop dance champions in the junior division in 2011, were silver medalists in 2012 and USA finalists in 2013.
With a love of science fiction, Henderson resident Shahab Zargari turned his galactic ideas into something out of this world.
After going dark for the first time in more than three years, First Friday is scheduled to return this week with new goals and ideas to grow the monthly arts festival.
Organizers of two of the biggest comic-book conventions in the country are clashing over their names.
Forgot about Comic-Con this year? Couldn’t afford it? Could afford it but couldn’t afford the hotel? We’ve got you covered.
Cuba Gooding Sr.’s been singing “Everybody Plays the Fool” since 1972.
From “Face 2 Face,” the latest artists-in-residence project at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas’ P3Studio, to an open-mic Broadway benefit, the valley is chock-full of arts events this weekend.
Jamal Norris gave thanks to the city of Henderson for his 15-year employment with a mural for the teen lounge at Whitney Ranch Recreation Center. “I was almost like the resident artist for the city,” Norris said of his history. “I did any artwork for any event. I created backdrops, built parade floats and painted murals. That was kind of my forte.”
Many Las Vegans think of downtown and First Friday when talking about the local art scene. But now, a new venue for artists has opened on the west side of town.
The Annual Quiche Breakfast of the Susan B. Anthony Society for the Sisters of Gertrude Stein is back in the Fischer Black Box at Las Vegas Little Theatre by popular demand for a limited encore presentation. After winning the Best of the Las Vegas Fringe Festival last month, the hilarious Poor Richard’s Players’ production of “Five Lesbians Eating a Quiche,” written by Evan Linder and Andrew Hobgood (men, it must be duly noted), it’s easy to see why.
The Onyx Theatre’s underground atmosphere should provide the perfect setting for a musical about moral decay, but this production of “Cabaret” directed by Brandon Burk for Off-Strip Productions lacks luster. The scenes are disjointed, and the pacing is slow.
The chance to see how far technology has taken Nevada — from petroglyphs to the Pony Express to smartphones — is as close as the Nevada State Museum, Las Vegas, at Springs Preserve.
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