Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play “How I Learned to Drive” has been produced with elaborate sets, colorful backdrops and real cars on the stage. But, when all other elements are in place, it’s fairly amazing what can be done on a bare stage with four chairs, two tables and a bed.
Arts events around town include theater (“The Sea Gull,” “Foxfinder”), concerts (UNLV opera and guitar series), comedy (Kinsey Sicks at The Smith Center) and more.
Bigger is better. Most of the time, especially in Las Vegas, that philosophy prevails. But starting Nov. 14 at Bellagio’s Gallery of Fine Art, “Faberge Revealed” begins a six-month run, showcasing more than 200 bejeweled treasures, most of which are only a few inches tall.
Reel life meets real life when “The Las Vegas Story” — and the Howard Hughes story — share the spotlight at the Nevada State Museum at 4 p.m. Saturday. A screening of the Hughes-produced 1952 movie (starring Victor Mature, Jane Russell and Vincent Price) will be followed by a discussion of Hughes, his anti-Communist stance and the House Un-American Activities Committee.
“Frankie and Nina’s Big Italian Wedding,” an interactive lunch show, is “loosely based on the Romeo and Juliet theme. It’s two families that hate each other, but they get over it,” said actor and director Jon Paul Raniola.
The city of Las Vegas unveiled the First Street Art Trail Nov. 6 with four, of what officials hope to become many more, art projects.
Director Philip Shelburne takes advantage of “The Last Five Year’s” difficult structure to highlight the yearning of a couple in love in a charming staging of the off-Broadway musical from Nevada Conservatory Theatre.
The Swiss-based troupe Mummenschanz has been winning fans since the ’70s, when such legendary TV figures as “Tonight Show” host Johnny Carson and Kermit the Frog (on “The Muppet Show”) praised their unique combination of mask and mime.
Light, and enlightenment, inspire “EnLIGHTen” activities at November’s First Friday in the downtown Arts District, just one of many arts events around town.
The world’s rarest postal stamp, the 1856 British Guiana One-Cent Magenta, will go on display at the National Postal Museum in Washington starting in April, the Smithsonian Institution said on Thursday.
