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

By Paul Atreides Author, Playwright, and Theatre Critic at EatMoreArtVegas.compaul-atreides.com I love a good story about the afterlife. So, of course, Orpheus would appeal to me as he travels down to the Underworld to reconnect with and retrieve his bride, Eurydice, who has died on their wedding day. A heck of a plot. Considering it’s all Greek mythology, it’s a classic and has been told in many different ways. But it’s always told from Orpheus’s point of view. Playwright Sa

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

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