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Vegas Verdi? Has a nice ring to it.
Audience members waiting in the lobby recently for the start of an improv show at the Onyx were startled to see artistic director Brandon Burk being led away in handcuffs. It was perhaps the most dramatic “end of a reign” in modern local playhouse history.
The Chieftains have six Grammy Awards.
Writer-director Mick Axelrod’s “For the Joy of the Sting,” at Las Vegas Little Theatre Studio, is an enjoyable mess, rich in possibilities.
The new dance room at the Winchester Cultural Center at 3130 S. McLeod Drive was opened and dedicated Jan. 25 despite complications that some staff members joked were caused by the ghost of a cow.
Presidio Brass, a San Diego-based quintet, recently stopped by Rancho High School, 1900 E. Searles Ave., to perform and give music lessons to students.
“Forbidden Art,” an exhibition from the Auschwitz Memorial in Poland, will run through Feb. 20 at Temple Beth Sholom in Las Vegas. The show features large-format photographs of 20 works of art created by prisoners at Nazi concentration camps.
One of the unfortunate realities of local theater is that shows often open before the cast has had a chance to perform in front of a live audience. It’s the nature of the beast; community theater productions have short runs (as little as one weekend, or, for the fortunate, a couple of months).
In his lifetime, Andy Warhol was hardly a Vegas kind of guy.
Sometimes the best way to make a statement about African-Americans is to take everything African-American out of the statement.
With great power comes great responsibility. Just ask those responsible for the Utah Shakespeare Festival’s annual Shakespeare-in-the-Schools tour.