The Nevada Ballet Theatre revives the spirit of dancer Robert Joffrey this fall. Former members of the Joffrey Ballet share the stage with our local dancers.
The six piece future-jazz, afrobeat ensemble NOMO brings their driving danceable music to the Aruba Hotel Showroom, Saturday February 6. We talk with NOMO leader, multi-instrumentalist (and van driver) Elliot Bergman about the band's creation process.
The Utah Shakespearean Festival will be presenting public performances of
Shakespeare's classic tale of the battle between the sexes. This new
production has been touring schools throughout the West and has been given a
"Wild West " theme.
The Insurgo Theater Company has mounted a new production of Shakespeare's Othello in its new space on East Karen Avenue. It's an unusual venue for a
classic play but then Insurgo is not the typical theater company.
And today Elvis Presley would be 75 years old. That means there's no better time
to hear again Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist Geoff Schumacher's take on
the King in Las Vegas.
Veteran Las Vegas band Big Friendly Corporation is enjoying a great 2010.
The group was named one of the top ten acts to follow by the Las Vegas Sun and they're launching a new CD with an appearance at the Aruba Showroom tonight.
He's been amusing Americans since the 1960s with his stand-up routines,
television shows and innumerable guest appearances on the talk show circuit. He's coming to Treasure Island this Saturday for one performance.
Broadway singer and dancer Rick Faugno is about to launch his one-man show, "Songs My Idols Sang (And Danced)" this Sunday at the Southpoint Hotel and Casino. This weekend's show is already sold out but Faugno gives us a preview in a special music edition of the show, taped in Studio One.
Sandy Hackett has created a new show about the glory days of Las Vegas at the Sahara. The show is playing at the Sahara and the cast joins us in the studio to talk about the new show and the old memories.
David Hopkins is an Irish singer-songwriter who now lives in Las Vegas. He
toured with rock legends The Who as their keyboardist for 2001's acclaimed
"Quadrophenia" tour, and is a friend and contemporary of Damien Rice.
They just can't wait to be king. The four middle-schoolers who play "Young
Simba" and "Young Nala" at the Las Vegas production of "The Lion King" join
Las Vegas Sun entertainment writer John Katsilometes to talk about how they
got into show business, their fledgling careers and what they do when
they're not on stage.
This weekend marks the return of the Neon Reverb Festival on East Fremont
Street and at other venues in town. We talk with the organizers - James Woodbridge, Thirry Harlin and Jason Aragon.
This Las Vegas band describes itself as "a world-beat experimental pop band
that formed in the winter of 2006 as a collective where different musicians
from many genres can come together to create music not found anywhere else."
So they came to the studio to show us what that means.
If it's Christmas it must be time for time for Tchaikovsky's favorite
holiday ballet - the Nutcracker. The Nevada Ballet is presenting the classic
at the Paris Las Vegas from Friday through Christmas Eve.
Garth Brooks and Steve Wynn have made it very clear to would-be profiteers
that they will not tolerate people profiting off the shortage of tickets for
the country megastar's Las Vegas concerts. Wynn Las Vegas has instituted an
elaborate procedure to ensure that only genuine concertgoers buy tickets and
we talk to writer and blogger Steve Friess about the new plan to stamp out
scalpers.
The Las Vegas Philharmonic will be playing its Christmas concert this
weekend. We talk to David Itkin about the concert and the music they will be
playing.
The indie-rock circuit tour The Rumble returns to the Aruba this Sunday. We
hear the music of Las Vegas band, the Lazystars, and talk with them about
how their creative process works.
They just can't wait to be king. The four middle-schoolers who play "Young
Simba" and "Young Nala" at the Las Vegas production of "The Lion King" join
Las Vegas Sun entertainment writer John Katsilometes to talk about how they
got into show business, their fledgling careers and what they do when
they're not on stage.
David Hopkins is an Irish singer-songwriter who now lives in Las Vegas. He
toured with rock legends The Who as their keyboardist for 2001's acclaimed
"Quadrophenia" tour, and is a friend and contemporary of Damien Rice.
The Vibe Performing Arts Company performs in an warehouse in the southeast part of the valley.
It chooses odd times for its performance - like midnight tonight - because it's performers come from Cirque de Soleil shows and are literally moonlighting.
