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.
3/27/2025
Broadway Las Vegas
There’s a lot to love about The Smith Center’s upcoming Toyota Broadway Las Vegas® Series – nine shows that have been showered with praise from audiences and critics alike and have combined to receive 23 Tony Awards®, 26 Drama Desk Awards®, 13 Outer Critics Circle Awards® and two Grammy Awards®.
3/20/2025
Broadway Las Vegas
To get you pumped for & Juliet – and to fill your mind with earworms to sing between now and then – we cooked up this fun quiz about Martin and some of the acts with whom he has sent songs skyrocketing up the charts through the years.
2/20/2025
Broadway Las Vegas
Lin-Manuel Miranda's groundbreaking show, with its compelling blend of history, musical innovation and social commentary, provides insights into the complexities of the American experiment and the enduring challenges of democracy. Whether you haven’t seen Hamilton live yet or you’re considering catching it again, here are a few reasons to secure seats for the tour’s return to The Smith Center stage.
1/10/2025
Broadway Las Vegas
Renowned Broadway actress Carolee Carmello recognized the titular role as a challenge she wanted to tackle. We caught up with the three-time Tony nominee, who has earned acclaim throughout her career for her performances in such Broadway productions as Parade, Mamma Mia!, Sister Act, Tuck Everlasting and beyond.
11/1/2024
Broadway Las Vegas
Kimberly is about to turn 16, and she’s navigating the usual challenges of adolescence after arriving in suburban New Jersey. She deals with family dysfunction (her parents mean well but have their own issues, and her Aunt Debra is an actual criminal), her first crush and even possible felony charges.
9/30/2024
Broadway Las Vegas
Every year, The Smith Center awards a pair of tickets to every show in its Toyota Broadway Las Vegas® Series. And fittingly, this year’s winner is a member of the Las Vegas and Broadway performing arts worlds herself. Local resident Becky Stephenson, who won our 2024-2025 giveaway, currently serves as the general stage manager for Cirque du Soleil show KÀ at MGM Grand. Stephenson first moved to Las Vegas in 2005 to open the Broadway musical Avenue Q at Wynn Las Vegas and has worked for Cirque since 2006.