Brenden Theatres owner Johnny Brenden says, in an understatement, “I know a lot of people who have been waiting for this.”
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Stand-up comic, TV and film star Bill Burr killed for about 90 minutes in his return to the Chelsea at the Cosmopolitan.
Louie Anderson is set for a pair of headlining shows to work out new material Saturday and Sunday.
Ann-Margret, co-star with Elvis in “Viva Las Vegas,” heads up the list of inductees UNLV College of Fine Arts Hall of Fame.
Butch Bradley has been in Vegas for three years, but he feels like a native.
Penny Wiggins’ star-studded Vegas pandemic documentary will show the struggles and triumphs of local entertainers.
Elvis’ and Ann-Margret’s feverish “C’mon Everybody” was filmed at what is now the UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art.
Human Nature are reuniting for a summer-Christmas show.
Oscar Goodman says of his friendship with Tony Spilotro “It was a very cordial relationship. He needed me to keep him out of prison, and I needed him to have the kind of cases that really were the best cases in the world for a criminal defense attorney.”
Renowned author Jack Sheehan has been developing a project centered on his time with the legendary drug kingpin and Las Vegas high roller Jimmy Chagra.
The Landmark hotel-casino’s destruction was famously captured in the 1996 cult film, “Mars Attacks!”
“There is not a single person on the planet that could sing this song but you,” she said, through tears. “Thank you for believing in us.”
Scott Bradlee has long wanted to bring his inventive Postmodern Jukebox production to Vegas. He told Saturday’s audience at Mirage’s Terry Fator Theater that was so enamoured of his surroundings, “I haven’t left this building in two days. I have not seen sunlight in that long.”
“Bandstand,” the Broadway-fashioned show conceived in Las Vegas that actually made it to Broadway, lives on.
“We had an 8 o’clock show, then a late show at 10 or 11 o’clock, and then we would have movie night,” Todd Fisher recalls. “This was up in one of the old Desert Inn ballrooms. It ran late, but we always found time for these movies.”