Working a comedy club setting without a band requires the manic master of song parodies to recalibrate.
Mike Weatherford
Two topless shows find longevity in venues that call for different approaches.
The superstar used the resident entertainer’s model to reach a number that it will take other concert stars years to match.
Magician Murray is everywhere you look on TV, yet still working to sell tickets on the Strip.
If big, bold experiments in Las Vegas entertainment were unraveling this week, smaller but still-encouraging ones continue.
Cirque du Soleil doesn’t appear to be packing up and leaving Las Vegas anytime soon. So the next best hope of all the smaller shows in town is that the Strip’s dominant producer will be really, wildly successful.
We may find it unlikely to see former “Hee Haw Honey” Misty Rowe directing a doo-wop show at the Riviera. But it’s just the latest in what Rowe, now 63, calls “my very strange and absurd career.”
Eric Jordan Young has done a show on the Strip more than 2,000 times for four years now, but no one is calling him a Las Vegas headliner. That’s the next thing he’d like to be.
Judy Craymer nods toward a “Mamma Mia!” poster on the wall of the Tropicana Las Vegas VIP suite that hosted her visit last week.
Kevin Lepine’s “Hypnosis Unleashed” recently celebrated a year in the cozy showroom at Hooters Hotel, no small achievement at a place that’s faced its larger struggles and hasn’t been able to offer much support.
This year’s “Soul Train Awards” will originate from Las Vegas for the second year in a row, but most locals will watch the show where they are used to seeing it: on TV.
Next Wednesday at least, the KriStef Brothers will be genuine Vegas stars, playing to 7,000 seats in the MGM Grand Garden.
An illusion Criss Angel is staging on Fremont Street for television cameras today sounds extremely familiar to Riviera magician Jan Rouven.
Tim McGraw and Faith Hill’s new version of “Soul2Soul” plays like a big arena concert that happens to be in a small theater. Is that any bad thing?