With earrings designed from deer antlers made by an Alaskan Eskimo and pens hand-carved by woodcrafters, The Purple Monkey features an assortment of items from local art vendors in a shop at 11 S. Water St.
Arts & Culture
As “Star Trek’s” original Capt. James T. Kirk, William Shatner has been inviting viewers to “explore strange new worlds” since the TV landmark’s 1966 blastoff.
Henderson-raised singer Barry Fortgang was thrilled when his singing group The Filharmonic was invited to be on NBC’s “The Sing-Off.” “I almost fainted,” Fortgang said.
Classical music: Philharmonic salutes state: It’s a Silver State salute Saturday as the Las Vegas Philharmonic celebrates Nevada’s sesquicentennial with a Smith Center concert themed “Battle Born — Nevada Proud.”
A new adaptation of William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” from Las Vegas’ own Teller leads a spring season at The Smith Center for the Performing Arts. The diverse schedule also includes John Legend, Renee Fleming, Patti LuPone, Lily Tomlin, Joshua Bell, Diana Krall and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
Think Pixar. That’s what many audiences do when they see Wonderheads at work — and what locals will have the chance to do Saturday when the two-member troupe visits the Charleston Heights Arts Center to perform “Grim and Fischer.”
There’s something about a Neil Simon play that gets to you after the final curtain. A realization bubbles to the surface that, under the comedic foibles of the characters he creates, there’s a truth about the endurance of the human spirit. Despite ourselves, we can bounce back from emotional hardship and see love.
“Red,” the Tony Award-winning play by John Logan about the meaning of art, is really about the meaning of life. Four times the question is asked, “What do you see?” And ultimately the answer is, “What does life mean?”
If you saw the show at the Amanda Harris Gallery of Contemporary Art, 900 Las Vegas Blvd. South, when it opened last month, you haven’t seen the show. “He came into town the other day and changed the big piece on the back wall,” gallery owner Amanda Harris said. “He put a wash over it and put his mug shot over it.”
Family fun: Zelzah Shrine Circus visits Orleans Arena. Ever wanted to join the circus? You won’t have to run away to explore the world of the center ring now that the Zelzah Shrine Circus is back in town.
Here we go again. “Again” being the operative word for legions of “Mamma Mia!” fans who can’t get enough of the spangled, spandex-bedecked jukebox musical spouting all ABBA, all the time.
Poor Richard’s Players’ current production is, “Red,” a six-time Tony Award-winning play set to be performed through Jan. 25 at the Onyx Theatre. “It’s a beautiful piece of work,” said founding member Benjamin Loewy, who is directing it. “The dialogue and the writing is so amazing. It just reached out and grabbed me. I’ve never been so passionate about directing a piece.”
Everyone has a story. But not everyone can tell it. Enter photographer Charles Mintz, whose camera captured 170 people holding the “Precious Objects” they hold dear.
It all started in the desert. Artist Nicolas Shake went jogging in the same nearby desert where, as a boy, he’d played and ridden his bike. But something had changed.
Historians Michael Green, a professor at the College of Southern Nevada, and Claytee White, the director of oral history research at UNLV, are expected to present at the first seminar in the Green Valley Library’s new series “Created Equal: America’s Civil Rights Struggle.”
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