On a sweltering Friday evening in downtown Las Vegas, more than two dozen people sweat it out inside The Beat coffeehouse eagerly waiting to hear … poetry?
Arts & Culture
You may think you know “The Sound of Music.” Doesn’t everyone? But “the movie is not at all the show,” observes director Jack O’Brien, who brings a new touring production of the musical to The Smith Center for a 16-performance run.
Our arts picks this week include “Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs” at The Smith Center.
Las Vegas may be a world unto itself. But there are worlds within that world — and those are the worlds that Johnson explores in her solo show “No Ordinary Life.”
The Nevada Ballet Theatre dancer, who’ll begin her third season with NBT this fall, graduated four years ago from New York’s prestigious School of American Ballet. This summer she returned as a teacher.
Southern Nevadans can examine Tim Bavington’s technique in “Pipe Dream,” his outdoor sculpture at The Smith Center for the Performing Arts that is an interpretation of “Fanfare for the Common Man” by Aaron Copland.
Our arts picks this week include the comedy musical “Idaho!” and Cheyenne Jackson’s solo show.
You may not realize it, but pixie-dust levels in Southern Nevada are about to go off the charts, with “Peter and the Starcatcher” and “Peter and Wendy” on their way to local stages.
When it comes to understanding the science behind all Las Vegas’ sparkling lights, you’ll have to venture away from the Strip — and to the Springs Preserve, where the exhibit “Playing With Light” continues through Labor Day. And bring the kids — because many of the 22 featured exhibits are sized for, if not geared to, the younger set.
Bob Delaney appeared at the Mob Museum in Las Vegas on Tuesday night to talk about how he went from an undercover agent assigned to bust up New Jersey crime families to respected NBA official.
“I don’t gamble and I’m not a huge drinker, but I love to be surrounded by ‘sin’ — put me in a smoky bar full of drinkers, gamblers, mobsters, entertainers and I feel like I’m in a movie,” he says.
Our arts picks this week include the new “Branding Las Vegas” exhibit at the Nevada State Museum, Las Vegas, and “Idaho! The Comedy Musical” at The Smith Center.
Toto, I don’t think we’re in “Oklahoma!” anymore. But we’re close enough to get all the knee-slappin’, poke-in-the-ribs jokes in “Idaho!” — the new “comedy musical” that receives its first full production at The Smith Center’s Reynolds Hall through July 17.
To quote “King Lear’s” Edmund, “The wheel is come full circle: I am here.” But this year the Utah Shakespeare Festival’s “here” looks far different than in previous years — thanks to its new home, the $38.6 million Beverley Taylor Sorenson Center for the Arts.
Despite its perennial crowd-pleasing status, getting “Much Ado About Nothing” right is a much trickier business than it seems.
