By Paul Atreides Author, Playwright, and Theatre Critic at EatMoreArtVegas.compaul-atreides.com      The play The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime , by Simon Stephens, won the 2013 Olivier Best Play Award on the West End and the Tony Award for Best Play in 2015, and is based on Mark Haddon’s 2003 award-winning novel of the same title. It’s funny, it’s heartwarming, and everything in between. Both novel and play follow 15-year-old Christopher Boone as he tries to u

By Erik Engman Author, Clown and Improvisation Teacher, Theatre Critic EatMoreArtVegas.com IG: ErikReviewsVegas   RATING: Delicious ★★★★★ A stark landscape. Smoke fills the space.  Harsh vertical fluorescent lights. Images projected on the floor and wall. Foreboding music. This is the setting you encounter when you enter Majestic Repertory Theatre’s production of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. Set in the present day, or as it says in the program, “Right Here - Righ

By Erik Engman Author, Clown and Improvisation Teacher, Theatre Critic EatMoreArtVegas.com IG: ErikReviewsVegas   Two countries. Country X and Country Y. Intertwined and yet separate. This is the setting for the wonderful and intriguing play Passage  by Christopher Chen, a fantasia inspired by E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India , presented as a joint production from Nevada Conservatory Theatre and A Public Fit Theatre Company on the UNLV campus. We are brought into a world whe

By Paul Atreides Author, Playwright, and Theatre Critic at EatMoreArtVegas.com paul-atreides.com      They’re baa-aack! The ladies from last season’s Four Old Broads on the High Seas  reprise their roles in Four Old Broads , by Leslie Kimbell, and couldn’t be more delightful. Coming off her keyboard first in 2018, this one is overdone in that the final scene sucks a bit of air out of things. But, overall, the dialogue sparkles, and it’s still funny. While High Seas took them

Flawed Boy Gets (Flawed) Girl By Paul Atreides Author, Playwright, and Theatre Critic at EatMoreArtVegas.compaul-atreides.com Good news! There’s a new theatre company in town! Sin City Players is presenting their second production (I’m not sure how we at EMAV missed Nights at the Algonquin Round Table ).  Now playing in the Fischer Black Box at Las Vegas Little Theatre (LVLT), Boy Gets Girl , by Rebecca Gilman, comes off more like a made-for-television movie despite 2001 Oute

By Paul Atreides Author, Playwright, and Theatre Critic at EatMoreArtVegas.compaul-atreides.com Sometimes evil comes to your door with smiles and kindness. That's the takeaway from The Guardian  by Ernest Hemmings, a three-act, two-hour cautionary play now in performances at Vegas Theatre. It's a joint production of TSTMRKT and Vegas Theatre Company, under the direction of the playwright. Hemmings often directs (and stars in) his own works. There are two schools of thought on

By Erik Engman Author, Clown and Improvisation Teacher, Theatre Critic EatMoreArtVegas.com IG: ErikReviewsVegas   Very few films have the notoriety of Showgirls , a 1995 NC-17 movie directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Joe Eszterhas. It’s considered one of the worst films of the 20th Century, filled with extreme overacting, laughable dialogue, gratuitous nudity, and almost no likable characters. And… I love it. It’s the definition of “it’s so bad, it’s good.”   So I was

A Can’t Miss – Don’t Miss Show By Paul Atreides Author, Playwright, and Theatre Critic at EatMoreArtVegas.compaul-atreides.com      Take the Grimm fairy tales Jack and the Beanstalk , Cinderella , Little Red Riding Hood , and Rapunzel  that you read as a child, or saw on film, seamlessly mash them together with steroids, add dashes of humor and beautiful songs like “Children Will Listen,” and you get Into the Woods . With a book by James Lapine and music and lyrics by Stephen

A Public Fit Theatre Company presents the third show of its 2025-26 season, a script-in-hand production of Octavio Solis’  Mother Road , a modern sequel to John Steinbeck’s  The Grapes of Wrath . Offered in partnership with the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District, Mother Road will be presented at the West Charleston Library, 6301 W. Charleston Blvd. at 7 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 23, the Clark County Library, 1404 E. Flamingo Road on Friday, Jan. 30 at 7 p.m. and Saturday, Jan

By Erik Engman Author, Clown and Improvisation Teacher, Theatre Critic EatMoreArtVegas.com IG: ErikReviewsVegas   There are three things I can always count on at Christmastime:  All I Want For Christmas Is You  by Mariah Carey everywhere I go, coal in my stocking (from my cats), and the classic tale: A Christmas Carol . There have been a multitude of adaptations on film and stage, and this year Broadway Stage Collective and Signature Productions have gifted us A Christmas Car

Missy Parker: A Multifaceted Force in Music and Theatre By Debbie Hall Speeding Theatre presents Ghostwriter the Musical  is a witty and heartwarming new production about a young songwriting team struggling with writer’s block who find inspiration from an unexpected source. Featuring 14 original songs, this imaginative musical blends humor, heart, and a touch of the supernatural. Book, music, and lyrics are by award-winning composer and playwright Missy Parker .   Parker stan