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The 2000 movie Billy Elliot has been made a Broadway musical, and while I'd never seen the film, the production that came through The Smith Center last week was one of the best I've seen there. We had the pleasure of being Brian Paco Alvarez's and Zappo's guests for this stunning production, though it was [...]
The Neon Roundtable is a Las Vegas based update of the fabled Algonquin Roundtable. Twice a month, a rotating panel of artists, musicians, writers and performers sit down to discuss a wide variety of topics. Check out their first episode.
Million Dollar Quartet treats an unforgettable night when Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins all got together at Sun Records in Memphis to the (mostly) delight of rock production legend Sam Phillips. Unsurprisingly, the show itself is massively entertaining. Using real musician and onstage accompaniment, the quartet winds their way through hits [...]
Seeing Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptation of Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange is not much preparation for seeing the production now showing at the Onyx Theatre. Yes, the story is approximately the same, but there are so many differences it might be a new tale altogether. As Burgess wished and executed in his own post-Kubrick stage [...]
Rock of Ages is the first Broadway musical I’ve ever been to where the audience is actively encouraged to act up. At the door, ushers hand out lighter-shaped LED lights to use in place of the real thing for requesting an encore—not that this stopped our seat neighbors from sparking up their own. As with [...]
An outdoor ice rink in Vegas? I had to see it to believe it. We checked out the opening of The Ice Rink at The Cosmopolitan this past weekend, spending about 20 minutes or so circling the makeshift rink. The scene was as Rockefeller Center as you can get here: families pushing each other around like [...]
Above: Wounded LV skater Keaton Belliston presented with deck signed by LV skaters I don’t think that many nonskaters know what a big freakin’ deal skateboarding is in Las Vegas. There are over 25 public skateparks, one private indoor skatepark, at least four local skate deck companies and one huge skate deck design warehouse and graphics [...]
Photo Credits: Jeremy Daniel & Richard Termine Apparently my occasional musings on ArtsVegas about watching Holly Madison strip and Shakespeare performed in sex museums have fooled the good folks at Cirque du Soleil into thinking I'm a real theatre critic, as I somehow got an invite to the splashy premiere performance of their latest show, Zarkana [...]
Season 7 of the Fabulous Sin City Roller Girls came to a bloody end Saturday, October 27th at the Riviera Convention Center. Defending Season 6 champs Hoover Damned were slaughtered in a grueling battle that finished 156 – 68 in favor of the Tommy Gun Terrors. Standout performances were given by Star Dust Dunes, Pretty [...]
Hey, did you hear Wicked is in town? Chances are you have, many times, as the hype for this much-anticipated six-week engagement of the most popular musical of the last decade started well before its venue, the Smith Center, was even open. Though the Smith Center has been open for five months now, this show represents its [...]
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