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

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 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 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