“Extravagana’s” reopening date is just ahead of Gov. Steve Sisolak’s two-week deadline for COVID numbers to trend downward.
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Scott Menke’s cousin and co-founder of Paragon Gaming, Diana Bennett, said the loss was “painful, inconceivable.”
Give it up for “Absinthe.” The Spiegelworld hit is the first large-scale production show in a Vegas hotel-casino to return after COVID-19 shut down live entertainment in March.
Wolfgang Puck Senior Managing Partner Tom Kaplan says the restaurant is breaking even. And that’s great.
Piff The Magic Dragon says of helicopter flying, “I have managed to avoid this, all my life.”
Adhering to the state’s phase two protocols for mass gatherings, FSE announced Friday night it would be holding off returning ambient live entertainment to its outdoor stages.
Pete Vallee’s purely Elvis, all-request, no-cover show is back at Harrah’s Piano Bar.
The NHL is eyeing Las Vegas as a hub city for the 2020 Stanley Cup playoffs, and MGM Resorts is prepping its hotels to potentially host 12 teams.
If these performances come off as scheduled, “Hilarious 7,” late of the Night Owl Showroom at Oyo, would be — at this writing — the first ticketed show in the city to reopen amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Cirque CEO Daniel Lamarre mapped the company’s ongoing revenue challenges during a phone chat last week.
Larry Ruvo said of his friend Andre Bocelli’s performance, “It brought tears to my eyes. It was so beautiful. He is a great man and a dear friend.”
John Rohling has masked David Copperfield, Carrot Top, Penn Teller, the Beatles and Siegfried & Roy.
Cirque’s schedule shift includes “O” at Bellagio, the company’s top-selling production that moved to two shows a night, seven nights a week last December.
Sean E. Cooper is a top-line comic who has brought the funny to “Fantasy” for 18 years.
Illness has taken Gwen Stefani out of another show at Zappos Theater.