Geoff Carter

3 weeks ago | lasvegasweekly.com | Geoff Carter

Parade, the multiple Tony award-winning 1998 musical whose traveling revival comes to the Smith Center for eight performances June 10 through 15, tells the true story of Leo Frank, a Brooklyn transplant accused of the murder of a young factory worker, Mary Phagan, in 1913 Georgia.

3 weeks ago | lasvegasweekly.com | Geoff Carter

A strange thing happens when you talk to the Blue Man Group organization about their namesake men: If they can help it, no one uses the pronouns “I” or “we.” They artfully eschew them. Byron Estep, BMG’s artistic director, calls any given Blue Man “the character,” as does Kalen Allmandinger, the captain of the performing company. Allmandinger appears onstage at Luxor, in the makeup, and still refers to the Blue Men as being something outside of himself. There are a few reasons they do that.

1 month ago | lasvegasweekly.com | Geoff Carter

Families spread out on the expanse of green grass, putting down blankets, low profile chairs and coolers. They take in the evening air, cooler here in Spring Mountain Ranch State Park than it is in the city, some 10 miles to the east. They admire the craggy sandstone features of Red Rock Canyon in the near distance. They look, expectantly, to the stage. And what bursts forth from it, what you probably wouldn’t expect to find out here in the desert, is rousing, joyful musical theater.

1 month ago | lasvegasweekly.com | Geoff Carter

The butter alone. If for no other reason—and there are plenty of other reasons, mes amis—you should visit Bar Boheme for a crackly baguette with a generous pat of Beurre de Rodolphe Le Meunier, a salted, positively velvety butter (88% butterfat!) that is, as our server put it, “basically a cheese.” The taste is rich, decadent, and a promise of things to come. Everything at Bar Boheme is a decadence. Everything is velvet.

1 month ago | lasvegasweekly.com | Geoff Carter

Las Vegas always had the makings of a great video game setting. Our city’s historical connections to organized crime, the Rat Pack and nearby nuclear testing positioned it as the perfect backdrop to Obsidian Entertainment’s 1950s-inspired, post-war Fallout: New Vegas, one of the greatest role-playing adventures of all time.