Nonie Newton-Breen — who puts the “Sister” in the comedic “Sister’s Christmas Catechism: The Mystery of the Magi’s Gold” this weekend at The Smith Center’s Troesh Studio Theater — credits a memorable fifth-grade Catholic nun with the inspiration for her portrayal.
Music: Smith Center celebrates ‘Mari-achi Christmas.’ It’s beginning to look — and sound — a lot like Feliz Navidad. At least at The Smith Center, where Mariachi Sol de Mexico, led by Jose Hernandez, will celebrate “A Mari-Achi Christmas” Tuesday night.
The balance of power’s off. After all, when the musical’s called “Evita” and the title character’s not the one dominating the stage, you know something’s a trifle amiss.
The doorbell’s ringing for “The Book of Mormon’s” upcoming visit to downtown’s Smith Center for the Performing Arts.
Jim Coombes was trying to surprise his wife by amassing a collection of works by famed American glass artist Dale Chihuly to donate to Gonzaga University in Spokane, where they’ve worked for decades.
Plenty of people will be trapped in an L-tryptophan torpor following this year’s Thanksgiving feast. But not Caroline Bowman. She and her fellow thespians will be singing and dancing up a storm in “Evita.”
The Brubeck Brothers Quartet — playing Friday and Saturday at The Smith Center’s Cabaret Jazz — “very consciously tried,” in bassist and trombonist Chris Brubeck’s words, to “do music that wasn’t Dave’s music.”
MUSIC: Winchester hosts plenty of pianists: Six pianists, 60 fingers, 88 keys. That’s the formula for “60 in the 88s,” a Saturday concert presented at the Winchester Cultural Center, in conjunction with the Las Vegas Jazz Society.
The program’s the same, but the conductor on the podium has changed for the Las Vegas Philharmonic’s Saturday Masterworks concert, themed “Love of Country.”
Peter DeAnda’s play “Ladies in Waiting,” written in 1968, could be an inspired treatise on prison overcrowding, segregation, deplorable conditions of prison life, and how incarceration changes a person. With permission, or done by the playwright (in attendance opening night), the script has been restructured for this joint effort by the Off Strip and TwoCan production companies. It could remain relevant today in all aspects except for the forced segregation. But, under the direction of Audrei-Kairen, it doesn’t.
