The last 11 touring elephants from Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus kicked off their retirement in Florida on Friday with a buffet brunch of carrots, apples, celery, loaves of bread and lots of hay.
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Our picks this week include Las Vegas Little Theatre’s “Tuna Does Vegas” and the First Friday arts festival.
The opera’s title may be French, as is its composer, Jacques Offenbach, but this “La Perichole” is sung entirely in English — and boasts a very Vegas sensibility, thanks to Sin City Opera’s Artistic Director Skip Galla, who rewrote the libretto. “It’s maybe the funniest piece” he’s ever staged, he adds.
Travelers zooming along Interstate 15 to and from Las Vegas tend to concentrate on the destination, not the desert. But all that may be changing, as a new vision looms off the highway near Jean Dry Lake.
The megahit musical “Hamilton” has grabbed a record-breaking 16 Tony Award nominations, the biggest haul in Broadway history and another notch in the show’s march into theatrical history.
Gladiator-worthy metallics and sparkly embellishments, along with a show of feathers and chunky boots, swept the red carpet at the Met Gala on Monday night.
Our arts picks this week include celebrations of Dia del Nino and International Jazz Day.
Two years doesn’t seem like such a long time. But for Erich Bergen, the two years he spent in Las Vegas represents a turning point in his show business career.
“We’re trying to create the new normal,” says Chris Edwards, artistic director of Nevada Conservatory Theatre. His plan is to combine “a farm league for the theater we have” with established artists from across the country.
All the world’s a stage. Especially on Saturday — which happens to be the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death and, the 452nd anniversary of his birth.