Concert giant AEG Presents’ directive that ticketholders get vaxed or stay away by Oct. 1 has an impact across the Las Vegas events scene.
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Matt and Angela Stabile have been X-ing out days on the calendar for months, methodically planning for a full return of their collection of Las Vegas Strip productions.
Clark County Commissioner Marilyn Kirkpatrick, Nevada Resort Association President Virginia Valentine want the state to open up.
“Zumanity,” Cirque du Soleil’s adult production at New York-New York, employed about 120 artists, crew and support staff. The show is closing after 17 years and 7,700 shows.
In a move that would have been unheard of even a year ago, Cirque du Soleil, the Las Vegas Strip’s preeminent production company for more than two decades, has filed for bankruptcy.
It was a hot, sunny morning in VegasVille on Thursday. We know this because a tuxedoed, masked Phantom of the Opera sought shade under a palm tree near the “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign.
Producer Hanoch Rosenn says of “Wow” reopening, “We are treating this as a message to our colleagues and friends around the world, who ask me, ‘How is it going?’ ”
The positive test at Mayfair was from a single staffer. The club’s cast and crew are tested weekly.
The hit musical’s run from September through October at The Smith Center’s Reynolds Hall has been postponed, Myron Martin announced Wednesday.
Mr. Las Vegas headlined in Las Vegas for 61 years, but until Saturday never rode a bike on the Strip.
Roy Horn, of the groundbreaking Las Vegas entertainment team Siegfried & Roy, has died at 75 from complications related to COVID-19.
George Maloof said of “Uncle” Phil Maloof: “He was a great man who loved his dogs and his collection of classic cars, art, and theater pipe organs.”
New York-New York executive Cynthia Kiser Murphey says, “We put the heart up there simply as a message to tell people how much we care about them, in a real simple and authentic way.”
Strip hotels unified for a visually powerful message of unity, illuminating guest rooms so the buildings lit up with hearts and spell the word HOPE.
Acting legend Michael Caine once told me Little Church of the West was one of his favorite Vegas landmarks — he and his wife, Shakira, were married there in 1973.