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Insider Insight: The Smith Center’s 2025-2026 Broadway Season

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®.

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Why You Should See Hamilton – For the First Time or Again

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.

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Kimberly Akimbo: ‘A Howlingly Funny Heartbreaker of a Show’

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.

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Lucky Las Vegan Wins Tickets to All 10 Broadway Performances This Season

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.

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Broadway Brings Hit Movies to the Stage

Movie magic glitters even brighter when it comes alive onstage. Energizing film adaptations have become an unbridled Broadway phenomenon, and The Smith Center will dazzle Las Vegas audiences in upcoming months with three movie megahits reimagined for the stage – Mrs. Doubtfire, Back to the Future: The Musical and Shrek the Musical.

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Sondheim Broadway Classic ‘Company’ Reimagined With a Modern Reversal

All that led Harper to a revolutionary idea: staging a revival of Company – an iconic, 1970 musical examining marriages and commitment among New Yorkers – but reshaping the story by switching the main character from male (Bobby) to female (Bobbie), with the plot now set in modern times.