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

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

Photo by Allec Gomes  on Unsplash A Ghost musical? By Paul Atreides Author, Playwright, and Theatre Critic at EatMoreArtVegas.compaul-atreides.com      Let me preface this by saying: I am a sucker for a musical. There, I said it. I'm not ashamed. Plus, if you know me, you know I'm all in when it comes to ghosts. Directed by Rip Pellaton, Speeding Theatre is presenting the world premiere of Ghost Writer the Musical , with book, music, and lyrics all by M. Parker, in Las Vegas