The Amargosa Opera House and Hotel sits outside of Death Valley National Park, like some desert dream forgotten by time.
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The ephemeral structure is being built entirely out of Ponderosa pine trees killed within the past six months by drought and beetle infestation in the Sierra Nevada range in California.
Nevada Conservatory Theater founder and former UNLV professor Robert “Bob” Brewer died Thursday. He was 70.
The charitable trust that owns and operates Marta Becket’s theater in the desert has been granted more time to submit years of delinquent tax filings and unpaid fees to the IRS and California regulators.
She helped to start the Reno Arts Commission, which soon after founded the month-long, citywide arts festival now known as Artown. She was also instrumental in creating the McKinley Arts and Culture Center.
About 200 people who gathered Friday in Death Valley Junction, California, 95 miles west of Las Vegas to remember Marta Becket, who died Jan. 30 at age 92. Becket staged her first show in the Armagosa Opera House on Feb. 10, 1968.
Authorities in California move to shut down charitable trust that operates the Death Valley Junction performance center, citing years of missed filings and unpaid fees.
Celebration of performer’s life, open to all, scheduled for Friday afternoon/evening at the Amargosa Opera House.
It was a flat tire that brought classically trained dancer Marta Becket to Death Valley Junction, California, in 1967.
Agency’s acceptance of rights to Michael Heizer’s enormous earth artwork City on private land within Basin and Range National Monument will lead to public being able to view it “soon,” Nevada’s Sen. Harry Reid said Thursday.