Category archives for: Shows

Penn & Teller to join Hollywood Walk of Fame

Penn & Teller to join Hollywood Walk of Fame

Six-time Las Vegas Magicians of the Year and Emmy Award winners Penn & Teller will be inducted on Friday into an exclusive club of entertainers. The stars from the Rio will be honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The Magic Castle, located down Hollywood Boulevard from where the star will be [...]

Chris Tucker to play the Pearl

Chris Tucker to play the Pearl

Stand-up master and film star Chris Tucker will visit Vegas this summer to perform in the Pearl at Palms. Best known for his role as detective James Carter in the “Rush Hour” movies, Tucker made his silver screen debut in “House Party 3″ in 1994. But even before he had crowds cheering in the theater, [...]

Absinthe cranks up the crazy for 1,000th performance

Absinthe cranks up the crazy for 1,000th performance

Vegas’ most outrageous theatrical creation hit a milestone last night: Absinthe celebrated its 1,000th performance and two years of success on the Las Vegas Strip with a special show at the Speigeltent in the Roman Plaza. The eccentric cast of Absinthe served up all the jaw-dropping acts and excess audiences have come to love — [...]

3,000th performance of ‘Menopause’: Musical’s hotness not just a flash

3,000th performance of ‘Menopause’: Musical’s hotness not just a flash

“Menopause the Musical,” the longest-running scripted show in Las Vegas, will give its 3,000th performance in April at the Luxor. When the curtain comes down at the end of the show on April 16, “Menopause” will have served up 3,000 lap dances, 15,064 simulated orgasms, 122,684 hot flashes and 270,000 minutes of uproarious laughter. The [...]

Watch Cirque du Soleil charity production online this week

Watch Cirque du Soleil charity production online this week

Cirque du Soleil’s one-time charity extravaganza “One Night for One Drop” raised $1 million for the Springs Preserve Foundation, to help bring clean water to people around the globe. For seven days only, you can watch the production online for a $5 donation. The three-act show was taped live, and the 90-minute online version includes behind-the-scenes [...]

Bill Maher to stay on for residency at Palms

Bill Maher to stay on for residency at Palms

After a successful first round of shows this weekend, comedian, political commentator and best-selling author Bill Maher will be making The Pearl Concert Theater at the Palms his home for 2013. Maher has pushed the envelope for the last 20 years, challenging the boundaries of political talk on TV and staying on the edge of [...]

‘Las Vegas Broadway Bares’ to benefit Broadway Cares

‘Las Vegas Broadway Bares’ to benefit Broadway Cares

Some of the Las Vegas Strip’s sexiest performers will heat things up on April 21 at the ”Peepshow” Theater in Planet Hollywood in a one-time show to benefit Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS. One of the charity’s signature shows, choreographer Jerry Mitchell’s “Broadway Bares in New York” (the inspiration for ‘Peepshow’) will be reborn in [...]

Deep Purple vocalist to join ‘Raiding the Rock Vault’

Deep Purple vocalist to join ‘Raiding the Rock Vault’

“Raiding the Rock Vault,” the show that brings together rockers from legendary bands of the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s to play the greatest set list ever, hit the stage last week with a blazing beginning, but when British rocker Joe Lynn Turner of Deep Purple and Rainbow joins the cast, things will really start to [...]

On anniversary, ‘Jersey Boys’ honors namesake with memorial on Las Vegas Walk of Stars

On anniversary, ‘Jersey Boys’ honors namesake with memorial on Las Vegas Walk of Stars

The cast and crew of Jersey Boys Las Vegas honor the legacy of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons six nights a week with the stunning show they brought from Broadway, but yesterday the celebration grew to new heights. On the occasion of the first anniversary of “Jersey Boys” at Paris Las Vegas and the [...]

A true Elvis tribute: Trent Carlini is himself in “The King”

A true Elvis tribute: Trent Carlini is himself in “The King”

Trent Carlini is widely regarded as one of the best Elvis impersonator in Las Vegas, and with a re-imagined show at LVH that’s as genuine and touching as it is classically fun, it’s clear that he’ll remain a star for years to come. The show highlights Elvis’ life in film, and it treats Carlini as [...]

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