In The News: Nevada Conservatory Theatre

Nevada Conservatory Theatre is closing out its 25th anniversary season with a bold and imaginative production. It runs May 1st through 10th at the Judy Bayley Theatre. We learned on ARC Las Vegas the creator got inspiration from their child. The series itself though is made for adults because it touches on more difficult life content like curse words, hate speech, war and death.

For 25 years, Nevada Conservatory Theatre has served as UNLV’s “lab” for theater arts. Executive Director Kirsten Brandt says the original mission of the training program was to create an intersection for research and professional practice.

Students from UNLV are performing "Cinderella: A Pantomime for Las Vegas" through Dec. 9 at Nevada Conservatory Theatre at UNLV.

The Nevada Conservatory Theatre is bringing "Cinderella: A Pantomime" to the UNLV campus. Director Laura James and Cynthia Nesbit, who stars as Cinderella herself, joined us to talk more about the production.

UNLV’s Master of Fine Arts candidates show off their recent works Friday at the Open Studios event.

Since it was first published in 1950, C.S. Lewis' beloved Chronicles of Narnia fantasy series has delighted generations of kids and adults. In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, young Lucy leads her siblings through a mysterious wardrobe, leaving behind besieged World War II-era England for the otherworldly land of Narnia.

Like Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Pippin is a prince — the son of the medieval king Charlemagne.

It’s an hour before curtain on opening night. There’s a jolly, frantic feeling among the cast and crew as they make the final preparations for the first production from the new student-run theater group, UNLV Second Stage.