Desert Companion - Fall 2009

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U.S. Marine Band Nov. 2, 7:30 p.m. Call 8952787 for ticket information. UNLV’s Artemus Ham Concert Hall. Community Band Concert Nov. 4, 7:30 p.m. Call 895-2787 for ticket information. UNLV’s

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Artemus Ham Concert Hall. UNLV Madrigal Festival Nov. 5, 2:30-10 p.m. Call 895-2787 for ticket information. Doc Rando Recital Hall. Folk Songs, chanteys, Spirituals and Broadway SELECTIONS Nov. 8, 2 p.m. The Southern Nevada Musical Arts Singers perform a wide range of works under the direction of Douglas Peterson. $10; $7 seniors, students, military and disabled. Winchester Cultural Center, 455-7340. Xyachimal Nov. 14, 7 p.m. The 30-member, fullycostumed folkloric dance troupe presents traditional dances from all over Mexico. $7, Winchester Cultural Center, 455-7340. David Fenimore portRays Woody Guthrie Nov. 20, noon. The City of Las Vegas’ Downtown Cultural Series presents a Chautauqua-style performance that weaves Guthrie’s words and music into a 30-minute monologue, after which Fenimore takes questions as Woody Guthrie, then drops his character for a discussion of Guthrie in our own time. Free. Lloyd D. George U.S. Courthouse, 229-3515.

Cedar City

THEATER Utah shakeSpearean festival The fall season in Cedar City offers a ghostly and mysterious female in The Woman in Black, life lessons in Tuesday With Morrie and a jet-propelled tour of all of the Bard’s 37 plays and his sonnets in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged). See bard.org for tickets and a full schedule. DURTY NELLY’S LULLABY Sept. 16 and 23, 7 p.m.; Sept. 24-25, 1 p.m. The British National Theatre of America performs this physical theater piece, set in a Northern Irish pub, about young love in a time of conflict. The troupe uses clowning, dance, acrobatics and acting to tell the story. $8. McMullan’s Irish Pub, 4650 W. Tropicana Ave., 497-0159, bntofa.org. Working Sept. 10-12, 17-19 and 24-26, 7 p.m. The Super Summer Theatre finale is the musical based on Studs Terkel’s best-selling book of interviews with American workers. $10 in advance; $15 at the gate. Spring Mountain Ranch State Park, 594-play, supersummertheatre.com. Las Vegas Little Theatre BLACK BOX SEASON

September 18 – October 17

The Woman in Black Tuesdays with Morrie The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)

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Sept. 11-20: Recent Tragic Events, a play about

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