Good Medicine Theatre Company

Vegas is the most amazing city. It's never boring! Of course sometimes it's never boring in the same way that my college boyfriend was never boring; spontaneous, sexy, with a long criminal record.
 
With all of the excitement and all of the looking over your shoulder, sometimes it's hard to remember that we're not alone. Starting a theatre company in Las Vegas is not for wimps and there are some fantasticly courageous people out there fighting the good fight. It always gets under my skin when someone asks with a puzzled look, "there's theater here? In Vegas?" There are actually quite a few theatres doing great work that has absolutely nothing to do with men in tights and crazy Canadian make-up.
 
In particular a very well deserved shout out is due for the Onyx Theater which was recently named as the staff pick for best performing arts group by the Las Vegas Review Journal. The Journal said that the Onyx is "The leading light in Vegas alternative theater"! Too bad that they felt the need to qualify the statement with the word "alternative". True, much of what plays at the Onyx probably wouldn't sit well with say, my Mom, but that hardly makes them alternative. I would venture that they are the leading light in Vegas theater. Period.
 
But lets not start fluffing the laurels for a comfortable rest, they will have plenty of healthy competition in the coming months from Las Vegas Little Theater, fun offerings from companies like Cockroach, and lets not forget about Super Summer. We too, your humble jesters will be tickling your funny bone in August. (Check out our Mainstage page)
 
All of these companies are very different and all of them vital to the Vegas theater scene. We feed off of each other, challenge each other, and continuously raise the bar for excellence, innovation, and creativity. Although there are those, usually from outside the community, that tend to look on the rise of many theaters at once as a bad thing. For the uneducated onlooker the theatrical community tends to get boiled down into a crude "battle of the bands" type of analogy. I'm really going to slap the next person that says to me, "you can't support them, they're stealing your audience!" Christ on a f%$*#$ bike!!!!! They're not stealing my audience, they're educating them! They're enlightening them! They're opening them up to a world full of art, passion, and humanity - and thank god they are because we can't do it all alone!