By Erik Engman Author, Clown and Improvisation Teacher, Theatre Critic EatMoreArtVegas.com IG: ErikReviewsVegas It is the 250th birthday of the United States of America, and what better way to celebrate than with a good ol’ American musical! And just in time, Super Summer Theatre and Hynes-Sight Entertainment bring 1776, with music and lyrics by Sherman Edwards and book by Peter Stone. So bring your picnic basket, a blanket, some hot dogs, and little American flags to wave as

By Erik Engman Author, Clown and Improvisation Teacher, Theatre Critic EatMoreArtVegas.com IG: ErikReviewsVegas Here is my final review of the final new show, with only two more days left in the Fallout Fringe Festival! This has been an amazing festival, and I hope you have enjoyed my reviews, whether or not you agreed with them. Can’t wait until next year! There’s still time to catch these final shows tonight and tomorrow, but act quickly because I suspect they’ll sell out

By Erik Engman Author, Clown and Improvisation Teacher, Theatre Critic EatMoreArtVegas.com IG: ErikReviewsVegas The Fallout Fringe is almost over, and I am down to our last couple shows! Major kudos to our very own Paul Atreides with the reading last Sunday of his wonderful script Love’s Labor or Puck & Ariel Take Manhattan. Fantastic play, and a fantastic celebration of theater. Tonight we celebrate past romances and this messy thing we call love. You can access the full s

By Erik Engman Author, Clown and Improvisation Teacher, Theatre Critic EatMoreArtVegas.com IG: ErikReviewsVegas It is the home stretch of the Fallout Film Festival, with only a few scant plays left to review. Today another banger! Or should I say it doesn’t suck? (That’s a vampire joke for you.) Nothing new today, but there are some amazing shows on the schedule with their last performances: “Things I Shouldn’t Tell You,” “Art & Deception,” “Can’t Save Everyone,” and “STUNT

By Erik Engman Author, Clown and Improvisation Teacher, Theatre Critic EatMoreArtVegas.com IG: ErikReviewsVegas It’s day 16 of the Fallout Fringe Festival as I head into the final weekend. Tonight is music, more music, and menopause. I review a one-person play and two bands. You can access the full schedule at www.falloutfringe.org/schedule. STUNTDRIVER - band Delicious ★★★★★ One year ago at the first Fallout Fringe, Kym Priess brought us the incredible clown show Lo

By Erik Engman Author, Clown and Improvisation Teacher, Theatre Critic EatMoreArtVegas.com IG: ErikReviewsVegas It’s day 15 of the Fallout Fringe Festival, and it’s time for some magic! Okay, the entire festival is magic, but this time there is a bona fide magician! You can access the full schedule at www.falloutfringe.org/schedule. Art & Deception by Chris Moorman Scrumptious ★★★★ Deep in the back room of Cornish Pasty on Charleston, Chris Moorman, magician extr

By Erik Engman Author, Clown and Improvisation Teacher, Theatre Critic EatMoreArtVegas.com IG: ErikReviewsVegas It is day 14 of the Fallout Fringe Festival, and I was taken to the Nevada desert. The perfect place on a hot day, right? Well, it depends on how you feel about the play I’m about to review. You can access the full schedule at www.falloutfringe.org/schedule. Justice for the Crimes of Sandra Corrigan by Vic & Emmie Vagabond Not hungry ★ It is the Nevada des

By Erik Engman Author, Clown and Improvisation Teacher, Theatre Critic EatMoreArtVegas.com IG: ErikReviewsVegas It’s day 13 of the Fallout Fringe Festival (already?) and more amazing shows are still arriving! Today I have one new play, which is a marvel and unlike anything I’ve seen at this festival before. It’s quite possibly my favorite thing in the Fringe, or at least in my top five. You can access the full schedule at www.falloutfringe.org/schedule. Volta created by T

By Erik Engman Author, Clown and Improvisation Teacher, Theatre Critic EatMoreArtVegas.com IG: ErikReviewsVegas It’s day 10 of the Fallout Fringe Festival and nearing the midpoint while baking in the Las Vegas heat. Today I have three new plays to review, and they’re all excellent. You can access the full schedule at www.falloutfringe.org/schedule. Can’t Save Everyone by Juliana Noble Delicious ★★★★★ The president, Abraham Lincoln, is dead. And his best friend, Henry

By Paul Atreides Author, Playwright, and Theatre Critic at EatMoreArtVegas.com paul-atreides.com Playwrights need theatres to help develop their works. With the recent announcement that the Yale Drama Series Competition for New Works is ending this year, coupled with the Sundance Theatre Lab closing in 2021 and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop for stage plays being moved to the MFA program, it's terrific that Las Vegas Little Theatre (LVLT) does this. While early drafts are sha

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

By Erik Engman Author, Clown and Improvisation Teacher, Theatre Critic EatMoreArtVegas.com IG: ErikReviewsVegas Like many aspects of life over five hundred years old (dueling to defend your honor, emptying bodily waste into the streets, the Monarchy), there are certain things that can be perceived as problematic in today’s day and age. And even though he is considered to be the greatest writer in Western civilization, some of William Shakespeare’s plays fall into that problem