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Binge this Week: Adam Pascal at the Space, LVLT’s ‘Laughing Wild,’ the music of MF Doom and more

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Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman
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  • Concert: Adam Pascal at The Space

    Broadway buffs know him for originating the role of Roger Davis in Rent (and his subsequent Tony nom), along with star stage turns in Aida, Chess, Something Rotten and most recently Pretty Woman: The Musical. But you’ve also seen Pascal kicking Jack Black out of the band in School of Rock. At heart, the New York native is a rock singer, but he’ll be running through the varied music and stories from his unique career when he brings his So Far acoustic retrospective to Las Vegas January 15 and 16. Limited in-person tickets ($30) are available at the Space, or you can livestream the show at thespacelv.com. –Brock Radke

  • Film: Promising Young Woman

    Emmy Award-nominated Killing Eve showrunner Emerald Fennell makes an audacious directorial debut with this #MeToo revenge thriller, starring Carey Mulligan in perhaps her most compelling role to date. Mulligan plays Cassie, a medical school dropout and visibly haunted soul who has made a grim sport of turning the tables on predatory men. Mulligan plays the role aloof and flirtatiously by turns, but underneath it all is a righteous anger that drives Cassie toward justice—and to a dangerous, long-overdue confrontation. Available for rental through Amazon, iTunes & Google Play. –Geoff Carter

  • TV: The Sopranos

    He’s one of the most complicated characters in modern television—part sociopathic villain and womanizer, part loving father and patriarch. Yes, we’re talking about Tony Soprano (RIP, James Gandolfini), the main reason this famed New Jersey mob series is considered one of the best of all time. Now that HBO Max is finally available on Amazon’s Firestick, even more viewers can rewatch the classics, or stream them for the first time. And if you find yourself casually dropping Italian slang throughout your day after watching all six addictive seasons, don’t say I didn’t warn you. Capisce? HBO Max. –Leslie Ventura

  • Theater: Laughing Wild

    The show must go on … line. Las Vegas Little Theatre will stage—and livestream—this 1987 dark comedy by Tony Award-winning playwright Christopher Durang, which details the convergence of two anxious New Yorkers. The story is presented as a series of monologues, followed by a trippy third act. Variety calls it a “nervous breakdown of a play,” which means that the pathos of the two main characters should feel perfect right now. David Ament directs, and Teresa Fullerton and Blake Boles star as the Woman and Man, respectively. January 16 & 23, 7 p.m.; January 17 & 24, 3 p.m.; $20, lvlt.org/laughingwild –C. Moon Reed

  • Music: MF Doom

    Madvillainy, MF Doom’s 2004 collaboration with Madlib, might be the late Daniel Dumile’s best-known project, but it’s far from the only groundbreaking album the rapper and hip-hop producer gave to the world under various pseudonyms. Viktor Vaughn’s Vaudeville Villain (2003), MF Doom’s Operation: Doomsday (1999) and Mm..Food (2004) and The Mouse and the Mask (2005)—his DangerDoom team-up with Danger Mouse—are all recommended stops on any streaming tribute tour. And don’t sleep on 2003’s Take Me to Your Leader, credited to King Geedorah (yep, Doom again) and loaded with slick hooks, skilled guests, monster movie samples (!) and choice examples of his distinctive rhymes, like this one, from “No Snakes Alive”:  “If he ain’t the best, he’s the best in the top three, out of myself, I and me.” –Spencer Patterson

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