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February 13, 2012

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Photo: Rugby fans cheer the USA against Japan during the
Weekend best bets: Styx, International Beer Festival and UNLV basketball
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Not quite recovered from Super Bowl weekend? No worries. The weekend ahead is packed with plenty of low-key, but nonetheless tantalizing, performances and events. From Itzhak Perlman to Styx to USA Sevens Rugby and UNLV basketball, here are our best bets for the weekend ahead.
Photo: Motley Crue performs during Crue Fest 2 at the Joi
Weekend best bets: Motley Crue, Super Bowl XLVI, George Strait, Moksha and closing of Studio 54
Thursday, February 2, 2012
From Motley Crue to First Friday to Super Bowl XLVI, the weekend is packed with enough events to make even the most seasoned Las Vegan’s head spin. Lucky for you, we’ve managed to parse through them! Here are 10 arts and entertainment offerings to kick off February:
Photo: Mayor Oscar Goodman declares Dec. 4 Lani Misalucha
Strip Scribbles: New restaurants, TV series dominate L.V.’s fall season
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Television production in Las Vegas is really picking up steam. Two competing TV food shows were shot here separately last week, and now Vegas ...
Photo: The audience lounges on blankets while awaiting th
A picnic and a show: Spring Mountain’s Super Summer Theatre still a great way to get away
Saturday, August 6, 2011
ENTERTAINMENT:
As Annie and company sing about the hard-knock life, a tiny pixie of an orphan stomps her way across the Super Summer Theatre stage, striding to keep up with the larger actors. Her face is locked in an expression of intense concentration, her dance moves performed with matching determination. She measures waist-high on some of her fellow orphans.
Open auditions set for production of 'Charlotte's Web'
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
The Rainbow Company Youth Theatre is holding an open audition for actors and actresses of all ages to perform in its stage-adaptation of “Charlotte’s Web.”
Photo: Now that is dedication: Phanto star Anthony Crivel
Friess: 55 shows later, a 'Phantom' fan for the ages
Monday, July 18, 2011
Anthony Crivello paid the usual respects as he took to the stage last month to acknowledge the fifth anniversary of “Phantom — The Las Vegas Spectacular” at the Venetian. The titular actor thanked Andrew Lloyd Webber, Hal Prince and the corporate owners who pay the salaries. Then he asked Janis Sartin to rise from her front-row seat so he could note that she’d seen the show in Las Vegas “about 50 times.”
Photo: Penny Pibbets in
Penny Pibbets’ Las Vegas includes magic, clowns and 'Absinthe'
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Vegas. The intense insanity of New Year’s Eve packed into a 5-mile Strip every night. People from all over travel here to see the world’s greatest ...
Shakespeare's 'Merchant of Venice' feels more like 'Merchant of Vegas'
Shakespeare's 'Merchant of Venice' feels more like 'Merchant of Vegas'
Friday, June 17, 2011
The moment they take their seats for “The Merchant of Venice” and see the craps table onstage, theatergoers realize they are about to boldly go where no Shakespeare play has been set before — Las Vegas.
Photo: Jabbawockeez at Rolling Stone's 2010 Hot Party at
53 things Las Vegas Weekly is thankful for this Thanksgiving
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
From Harry Reid's win over Sharron Angle to KNPR to Jubilee! at Bally's to Larry Ruvo, there are many things to be thankful for in Las Vegas this year. ...
Photo: Rocky Horror
Onyx Theatre to stage live performance of 'Rocky Horror Show'
Friday, October 15, 2010
Let's do the time warp again! A live performance of "The Rocky Horror Show" comes to the Onyx Theatre tonight.
Henderson youth theater troupe to perform at Nevada Wild Fest
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Yee-haw! South Valley Community Theatre is bringing back the Wild West.
Photo: After 45 years, Marta Becket is preparing to close
Amargosa Opera House visionary Marta Becket prepares to bow out
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
“I’m not going to live forever. I can’t imagine the afterworld being as beautiful as this. I’d like to know what it’s like over there. I’m getting myself ready for that.”
Photo: Got a Nail clipper handy? Insurgo stages Oscar Wil
Insurgo’s decadent 'Salome' fits in at the Erotic Heritage Museum
Friday, September 3, 2010
While Oscar Wilde once said, “To be natural is to be obvious,” "Salome" may be his exception.
Photo: Two-man balancing act Golden Showers helps make
Insurgo’s new 'Clownshow' makes for a fun late-night freak show
Sunday, August 15, 2010
The "1230" in "1230 Clownshow" refers to time, not the number of clowns in the production. Let me make that clear from the beginning.
Photo: A scene from Insurgo Theater's
Insurgo’s stab at Shakespeare still needs work
Friday, July 23, 2010
There are moments of hilarity and lightness, despite a host of questionable choices.

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