First Friday will celebrate its 11th anniversary in the Arts District Oct. 4 from 5 to 11 p.m. Aside from anniversary festivities, there will be lots of pumpkins in keeping with the season. After all, October is Halloween month, and First Friday Las Vegas organizers never miss a chance to have fun.
Catch a glimpse of it in a crowded casino and Bally Technologies’ “Michael Jackson Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’ ” slot machine is striking.
Prepare for Sunday’s series finale of “Breaking Bad” by spending Saturday with Gus Fring. Giancarlo Esposito is among the celebrities scheduled to be a part of the Las Vegas Comic Expo this weekend at the Riviera.
“Dog Explosion” is UNLV faculty member and playwright Sean Clark’s darkly humorous take-off on Chekov’s “Three Sisters.” But you can enjoy Clark’s macabrely funny meditation on the accidents of life without reading too much into it.
From far afield and close to home, fall’s performing arts calendar promises a world of entertainment.
Next week, two very different productions — Shakespeare’s “Richard II” and the nostalgic prom-night musical “The Marvelous Wonderettes” — join the rollicking, Tony-winning “Peter and the Starcatcher” at the Utah Shakespeare Festival in Cedar City
Super Summer Theatre’s season finale is an odyssey of musical theater told through the story of would-be failed producers Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom in the 2001 Broadway hit “The Producers.
In the 1939 movie version of “The Wizard of Oz,” the Cowardly Lion wistfully sings, “If I only had the nerve.”
Something familiar, from Shakespeare to Sondheim, from “A Streetcar Named Desire” to “The Wizard of Oz.”
Theater purists might not like Naked Navigation Theatre Collective’s touring production of Tennessee Williams’s “A Streetcar Named Desire” playing at the Onyx Theatre. While the risks that director Dana Martin takes in adapting Williams’ text don’t always play out, they make for an enjoyable evening of theater.
If you saw “The Producers” at Paris Las Vegas about five years ago, you didn’t really see “The Producers.”
“Jabbawockeez” dancer Abenamar “B-boy Ben” Honrubia has spent more than 15 years break dancing, which has not only turned into a career and a show on the Strip but also resulted in his winning numerous competitions.
A knitting a crocheting group at the West Flamingo Senior Center hosted a “Yarn-a-Thon” event this month, creating yarn flower murals. The group plans more meetings throughout the year.
