10/22/2025
Broadway Las Vegas
When Michael Reilly joined the team behind Disney’s The Lion King in 1999, he couldn’t have guessed he’d still be with the show 26 years later. But really, it makes perfect sense, given the high bar the musical’s has set in Reilly area of expertise – puppetry.
9/25/2025
Broadway Las Vegas
“Part of a producer’s job is to be a psychiatrist.” That’s how Zoe Thrall, Director of Studio Operations at The Hideout Recording Studio in Henderson, describes one critical aspect of working with famous bands – especially stormy ones like the fictitious 1970s rock group featured in Stereophonic, the Tony Award®-winning Broadway production running at The Smith Center October 21-26.
9/17/2025
Broadway Las Vegas
Direct from Broadway comes the acclaimed Tony Award®-winning musical Suffs, about the brilliant, passionate and funny American women who fought tirelessly for the right to vote. Here’s a quick guide to the show’s key female characters.
8/29/2025
Broadway Las Vegas
When Las Vegas native Danielle Tapia read that she’d won tickets to every Toyota Broadway Las Vegas® production at The Smith Center this season, she couldn’t believe her eyes. “And then I was sent the tickets to add to my mobile wallet!” Tapia says. “What a gift. I am so excited!”
7/29/2025
Broadway Las Vegas
Direct from Broadway comes the Tony Award-winning musical Suffs, about the brilliant, passionate women who fought tirelessly for the right to vote. From the groundbreaking mind of Shaina Taub, this “thrilling, inspiring and dazzlingly entertaining” (Variety) musical brings its highly anticipated national tour to The Smith Center from October 7-12.
5/30/2025
Broadway Las Vegas / Community Impact
On May 23, The Smith Center partnered with the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District on a special event at Whitney Library, featuring cast members from Hamilton, the global phenomenon that recently concluded its third run at Reynolds Hall.
4/29/2025
Broadway Las Vegas
The Smith Center’s 2025-2026 Toyota Broadway Las Vegas® Series opens in perfect style – with a show The New York Times called a “Super-Sized, All-Out Song-And-Dance Spectacular!” Hilarious, Tony®- and Grammy®-winning musical comedy Some Like It Hot runs onstage inside Reynolds Hall from July 22-27.
4/9/2025
Broadway Las Vegas / Inside the Theater
The Wiz cycles through 118 costumes and 82 pairs of shoes per night onstage, with some cast members wearing as many as nine different outfits per show. And for a one-week engagement, the production typically runs about 220 loads of laundry.
4/4/2025
Broadway Las Vegas
When The Smith Center put together its 2024-2025 Toyota Broadway Las Vegas® Series, President and CEO Myron Martin felt strongly that one show, in particular, needed to be booked: Parade. “It is rare to experience a production so powerful and emotional,” Martin says. “Based on a true story, Parade is a musical that deals with serious topics. At times I found it heart-wrenching. It is powerful, it is deeply moving and it is glorious.”
4/3/2025
Broadway Las Vegas / Inside the Theater
Kelly Long-Vanderpool looks forward to her Wednesday-night Smith Center visits for the world-class Broadway shows, of course. But those outings have also come to represent something else exciting for her and her husband, Kenman Vanderpool: a chance to catch up with friends they made through their Smith Center subscription.