Rewinding the Clock By Paul Atreides Author, Playwright, and Theatre Critic at EatMoreArtVegas.compaul-atreides.com The Will to Live, Juliana Noble’s first play, deservedly won Best of Fringe at the 2024 Las Vegas Fringe Festival. It was a trimmed-down script to fit the 60-minute time slot. Now, 23 months later, the full play debuts at Vegas Theatre Company with Noble again in the director’s chair. The play’s conceit and hook is that it is structured backward. It opens wi

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 Paul Atreides Author, Playwright, and Theatre Critic at EatMoreArtVegas.compaul-atreides.com The zany characters of Tuna, Texas, are back as Las Vegas Little Theatre presents A Tuna Christmas by Jaston Williams, Joe Sears, and Ed Howard. All 23 of them, in this second installment of their Tuna comedy series. If you’re familiar with the Tuna franchise, Greater Tuna , A Tuna Christmas , Red, White & Tuna , and Tuna Does Vegas , you know how politically incorrect these

By Paul Atreides Author, Playwright, and Theatre Critic at EatMoreArtVegas.compaul-atreides.com Heidi Schreck’s What the Constitution Means to Me , now playing at A Public Fit under the direction of Ann-Marie Pereth and Joseph Kucan, is arguably more relevant today than when it appeared on Broadway in 2019. It was nominated for a Best Play Tony Award and named a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama. The arc covers rights “guaranteed” under the Constitution of the United S

It’s safe to go in the water By Paul Atreides Author, Playwright, and Theatre Critic at EatMoreArtVegas.compaul-atreides.com The Shark is Broken , by Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon, premiered in 2019 at the Edinburgh Fringe and made its way to Broadway via London’s West End and Toronto, opening in New York on August 10, 2023 for a limited run. This being the 50 th anniversary of Jaws , it’s perfect timing for this production. While the play received mixed reviews from critic

A Wonderfully Chaotic Cottage By Paul Atreides Author, Playwright, and Theatre Critic at EatMoreArtVegas.compaul-atreides.com What...

Rich “yesteryear” Pajama Game By Paul Atreides Author, Playwright, and Theatre Critic at EatMoreArtVegas.compaul-atreides.com Each...

It’s Fringe time again, and I love it! By Paul Atreides Author, Playwright, and Theatre Critic at EatMoreArtVegas.compaul-atreides.com ...

New Works doesn’t work By Paul Atreides Author, Playwright, and Theatre Critic at EatMoreArtVegas.compaul-atreides.com The Las Vegas...

The play’s the thing By Paul Atreides Author, Playwright, and Theatre Critic at EatMoreArtVegas.compaul-atreides.com I’m all in when...

An always timely classic By Paul Atreides Author, Playwright, and Theatre Critic at EatMoreArtVegas.compaul-atreides.com What makes...

Puppet vs Humans By Paul Atreides Author, playwright, and Theatre critic at EatMoreArtVegas.com paul-atreides.com You never know...