When Frances Hall was asked to write a play by the Martin Luther King Jr. Committee, she decided on a story of a family overcoming hardships. “I think these are real issues that people can relate to,” Hall says.
Arts & Culture
After a three-year hiatus, Theatre in the Valley is grateful for a new start and a permanent home.
The touring “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” at The Smith Center fulfills its duty as a peppy song-and-dance rush — and not much more.
Pulitzer and Tony award-winning playwright Tracy Letts explores the collateral damage left over from the first Iraq war through the paranoid delusions of a Gulf War vet in his creepy play “Bug,” now being staged by Cockroach Theatre.
The program for Las Vegas Little Theatre’s presentation of “The Little Dog Laughed” warns about the play’s “full male nudity, strong language, and mature themes.” It’s not for the squeamish. But in the Hollywood satire, the profanities have a lyrical roll and the nudity is a natural, symbolic part of the story.
Radio and dance don’t mix — except in “Three Acts, Two Dancers, One Radio Host,” featuring NPR’s Ira Glass and two modern dancers, which visits The Smith Center Saturday.
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