By Erik Engman Author, Clown and Improvisation Teacher, Theatre Critic EatMoreArtVegas.com IG: ErikReviewsVegas It is at the halfway mark, and the third wave of shows is here! I spent the morning attending the wonderful Immersive Theater Workshop on putting together an immersive show, which was both insightful and inspiring. After that, I saw three new one-person plays, involving the mildest man imaginable, Mexico’s most (washed up) Sitcom Star, and the true story of a chil

By Erik Engman Author, Clown and Improvisation Teacher, Theatre Critic EatMoreArtVegas.com IG: ErikReviewsVegas It’s day 9 of the Fallout Fringe Festival, and it’s getting hotter! Or maybe that’s the temperature outside. This weekend is a doozy! I recommend staying hydrated and going to air-conditioned downtown theaters to watch more Fringe plays. Maybe that’s just me. Tonight we have a concert to review. A clown concert. You can access the full schedule at www.falloutfring

By Erik Engman Author, Clown and Improvisation Teacher, Theatre Critic EatMoreArtVegas.com IG: ErikReviewsVegas It’s day 5 of the Fallout Fringe Festival, and it is moving into another phase of the festival. Some plays are finished, and new ones are emerging. Tonight I only have one new play to review. You can access the full schedule at www.falloutfringe.org/schedule. Heavy Petting Zoo by Venus Cobb Satisfying ★★★ Two short plays in one, both involving animals and s

By Erik Engman Author, Clown and Improvisation Teacher, Theatre Critic EatMoreArtVegas.com IG: ErikReviewsVegas It’s already day four of the Fallout Fringe Festival, and I saw three new plays, all written by women! We have ants, snakes, piñatas, and stimulating theater throughout. Here is the next batch of reviews. You can access the full schedule at www.falloutfringe.org/schedule. Eusocial by Lucy Berger Still hungry ★★ Two teenagers lament the scheduled demolition o

By Erik Engman Author, Clown and Improvisation Teacher, Theatre Critic EatMoreArtVegas.com IG: ErikReviewsVegas After taking the day off for First Friday, the Fallout Fringe Fest continues with some amazing shows (and if you were lucky enough to catch the Cockroach Cabaret at Vegas Theatre Company on Friday night, you would have gotten a taste of some plays yet to come). I review two non-traditional shows that exemplify what the Fringe is all about. You can access the full

By Isabel M. Castro “Art is never silent in times of political upheaval.” — Sarah O’Connell In a cultural moment shaped by urgent conversations surrounding censorship, democracy, and political division, The Anemone and the Boar will be performed in Las Vegas with striking relevance. Presented by The Asylum Theatre, the production marks both the United States premiere of the play and the international launch of Stevens' English translation. Performances will take place at Posi

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 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 Erik Engman Author, Clown and Improvisation Teacher, Theatre Critic EatMoreArtVegas.com IG: ErikReviewsVegas Henry V (also known as The Life of Henry the Fifth ) by William Shakespeare is one of the more well-known of his history plays (thanks in part to the brilliant 1989 Kenneth Branagh film). One of the strengths of this play is that the plot is straightforward: King Henry V of England, after being insulted by the French Dauphin, wages war across France to claim the

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