8/12/2019
Family Programming / Performances and Artists
Without a doubt, Americans gained true gems of wisdom from watching television’s messiest game show, “Double Dare” on Nickelodeon. Featuring tenacious children competing in brain-tickling trivia and deliciously disgusting stunts, the long-running series that taped over 500 episodes made an art of Slime soaking, pie plastering and booger busting.
7/31/2019
Performances and Artists
This hit show started out as simple fun between friends. Four years ago, acclaimed Broadway music director Benjamin Rauhala teasingly suggested the show’s idea to Laura Osnes, who leapt at the chance to cowrite it with him. With other prominent actresses quickly signing on, the first “Broadway Princess Party” ran at the famous Feinstein’s/54 Below in New York City.
7/9/2019
Performances and Artists
Everyone knows what makes India’s Bollywood films so addictive: The outrageously high-energy musical numbers. Breaking out in almost every scene, these elaborate song-and-dance routines suck in audiences with dazzling costumes, infectious original music and athletic dance steps. This same flashy and exuberant musical celebration is captured live on stage in “Taj Express."
7/8/2019
Performances and Artists
Few people can say they have been personally mentored by Latin-music icon Tito Puente. But when Pete Escovedo met Puente as an ambitious 18 year old, Puente saw a spark in the teenager that he decided to nurture. “I looked up to him as the greatest timbale (player) ever,” Escovedo recalls.
6/26/2019
Performances and Artists
Keiko Matsui's reverence for life might serve as the reason why the acclaimed artist has intertwined her sweeping instrumental music with global causes throughout her decades-long career, which includes sharing the stage with greats such as Miles Davis and Stevie Wonder, as well as recording 28 hit studio albums.
6/17/2019
Performances and Artists
Raised in a small fishing village in Greece, he still remembers growing up within a half-hour drive of Sparta and “3,000 year-old monuments” — all of which laid the foundation for his musical aspirations. “When the time came for me to create, I thought, ‘what could I write with music that would last more than a week or a year?’” he recalls.
6/14/2019
Performances and Artists
Jackie Evancho never expected to be famous. Not even when she succeeded in earning a coveted spot on season five of hit NBC show America’s Got Talent at the tender age of 10. “I saw it as something I’d do, and then everything would go right back to normal,” the vocalist recalls. Spoiler alert: she was wrong.
6/10/2019
Broadway Las Vegas / Performances and Artists
Hit Broadway musical “Anastasia” not only tells a story of epic proportions — the production also promises mesmerizing theater magic audiences haven’t experienced before. Based on the popular 20th Century Fox animated film, this acclaimed Broadway production has made headlines for elevating the story to a groundbreaking level of theater.
6/3/2019
Performances and Artists
While acclaimed entertainer Common stands as the first rapper to earn an Oscar, a Grammy and an Emmy, he doesn’t see these accolades as bragging rights. He sees them as motivation. “When I see (my Oscar), I try to remember there’s more things to achieve,” says Common.
5/30/2019
Performances and Artists
Few Las Vegas residents don’t recognize the name Norm Clarke, retired man-about-town columnist for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, who became an icon in his own right through two decades of savvy interviews and coverage of Vegas celebrities. But many may not be aware of Clarke’s latest endeavor.