As a freelance writer my work has appeared in The Berkeley Daily Planet, LV Weekly, Desert Companion and more. From 2009-2017 I was the main theatre reviewer for the LV Weekly, covering locally-produced shows of all sizes.
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New Wave Burlesque
Originally appeared in the Las Vegas Weekly March 13, 2014. Can be viewed on the LV Weekly website here. A NEW WAVE OF BURLESQUE IS HEATING UP LAS VEGAS (WITH ZOMBIES! AND FIRE!) It’s 10:30 p.m. on a Saturday night, and I’m pointing a .357 Magnum at the face of the world’s most adorable Chihuahua,…
Teller’s Tempest
Teller — of Penn & fame — has a strong affinity for Shakespeare. He partnered with director Aaron Posner, The Smith Center and Boston’s American Reperotry Theatre to create a new vision of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. I was lucky enough to interview him about the piece as well as review it. Here’s the review. It…
Las Vegas: The Game
This piece was a “ride-along” of a new service that offers friends a way to give the ultimate crazy experience, including showgirls attaching themselves to you, dive bars with overly aggressive security personnel, and a finale that has to be seen to be believed. It originally ran April 29, 2014 in the LV Weekly and can…
Cabaret Review
A review of a production of the classical musical Cabaret. Originally appeared in print July 23, 2014. Can be seen on the Las Vegas Weekly website here. OFF-STRIP’S ‘CABARET’ DOESN’T QUITE STAND UP ON ITS OWN Cabaret follows the lives of folks connected by the Kit Kat Klub, a cabaret in Weimar Era Germany, and is…
Seven Homeless Mammoths
In August of 2014, two producers in town shipped in a production of Madeline George’s Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England from Theater Wit in Chicago. It originally appeared in print in the Las Vegas Weekly on August 23, 2014. It can be seen online here. ‘SEVEN HOMELESS MAMMOTHS’ IS A WITTY, INVENTIVE SUCCESS Despite its…
Kinky Boots
The Smith Center in Las Vegas is the city’s only free-standing performing arts hall, and is a relative newcomer to the city. (It opened in March of 2012.) It has large ambitions here and nationwide, so they were justifiably proud when they were chosen to launch the first national tour of the Tony Award-winning Broadway…
NCT’s New Artistic Director
In the summer of 2014, the Nevada Conservatory Theatre — residing at UNLV — announced their new artistic director. I got the first interview of him for a local publication. This originally appeared in the Sept. 4, 2014 edition, and can be viewed on the LV Weekly site here. NEW NEVADA CONSERVATORY THEATRE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR…
Gazillionaire Webseries
The Gazillionaire (Gaz, to his friends) is the MC for Absinthe on the strip — a raunchy, hysterical and over-the-top circus show in Vegas. They aren’t lying when they say if you see only one show, make it Absinthe. It’s a great show and a lot of it has to do with the profane presence…
Jacob Coakley 