Theater

Weekend best bets: Styx, International Beer Festival and UNLV basketball: Thursday, February 9, 2012; By Andrea Domanick; 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.

Weekend best bets: Motley Crue, Super Bowl XLVI, George Strait, Moksha and closing of Studio 54: Thursday, February 2, 2012; By Andrea Domanick; 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:

Strip Scribbles: New restaurants, TV series dominate L.V.’s fall season: Wednesday, September 21, 2011; By Robin Leach; Television production in Las Vegas is really picking up steam. Two competing TV food shows were shot here separately last week, and now Vegas ...

A picnic and a show: Spring Mountain’s Super Summer Theatre still a great way to get away: Saturday, August 6, 2011; ENTERTAINMENT:; By Sarah Feldberg; 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; By Conor Shine; 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.”

Friess: 55 shows later, a 'Phantom' fan for the ages: Monday, July 18, 2011; By Steve Friess; 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.”

Penny Pibbets’ Las Vegas includes magic, clowns and 'Absinthe': Thursday, July 7, 2011; By Penny Pibbets; 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': Friday, June 17, 2011; By Tom Gorman; 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.

53 things Las Vegas Weekly is thankful for this Thanksgiving: Wednesday, November 24, 2010; By Las Vegas Weekly Staff; 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. ...

Onyx Theatre to stage live performance of 'Rocky Horror Show': Friday, October 15, 2010; By April Corbin; 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; By Erin Dostal; Yee-haw! South Valley Community Theatre is bringing back the Wild West.

Amargosa Opera House visionary Marta Becket prepares to bow out: Wednesday, September 8, 2010; By Kristen Peterson; “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.”

Insurgo’s decadent 'Salome' fits in at the Erotic Heritage Museum: Friday, September 3, 2010; Molly O'Donnell; While Oscar Wilde once said, “To be natural is to be obvious,” "Salome" may be his exception.

Insurgo’s new 'Clownshow' makes for a fun late-night freak show: Sunday, August 15, 2010; By April Corbin; The "1230" in "1230 Clownshow" refers to time, not the number of clowns in the production. Let me make that clear from the beginning.

Insurgo’s stab at Shakespeare still needs work: Friday, July 23, 2010; Jacob Coakley; There are moments of hilarity and lightness, despite a host of questionable choices.