Britney Spears is to cap her residency on the Las Vegas Strip on Dec 31 with a performance on “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2018.”
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Keely Smith was an overnight success. Meaning, much of her success was achieved overnight.
Mark Shunock, the man who played the addled theater manager Lonny showed he was impressive off-script, with an ambitious mind concealed under his character’s mullet.
“I’m in Sunrise Hospital,” Joe Vento said Saturday while taking a break from well wishers. “Nice way to celebrate my birthday, eh?”
The KATS! Bureau at this writing is Thomas Mack Center and the 59th Wrangler National Finals Rodeo. This year marks the last rodeo for Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association Commissioner Karl Stressman, who is stepping down after a decade in ye olde saddle.
Barry Manilow and Westgate Las Vegas have been in talks for months. Whether Manilow’s dream is reality will likely be sorted out by Christmas, if not sooner.
Pearl Concert Theater, which opened a decade ago, is long overdue due for a makeover. The process begins after Monday night’s performance by The Killers
“Circus 1903” is closing at Paris Theater on Jan. 7. Members of the production were informed late Wednesday that the show would be shut down, and an official announcement was issued this morning.
Mel Brooks twice filled Encore Theater on June 30-July 1. He had just turned 91 when he made his Strip debut.
No. 58 is to stay in the stables at this year’s National Finals Rodeo.
Matt Goss has checked in with a new show at a new venue … and a new drink.
The band in “Raiding the Rock Vault” has long resisted performing its first encore. That changed Saturday night at the end of 90-minute set Saturday night at Hard Rock Hotel’s Vinyl music club.
A fitness and self-defense instructor from Sedgefield, South Africa, who survived an attempted carjacking this summer, is the new Miss Universe.
‘Tournament of Kings’ offers a feast; ‘Legends’ a tribute buffet
Frankie Moreno is developing a partnership with Madison Square Garden to write songs for Knicks’ performances, and also perform halftime shows at the legendary venu