4/12/2026
Community Impact / Education and Outreach / Supporting the Arts
For more than 15 years, teaching artist Marcia Robinson has carried a simple but powerful belief into classrooms: The arts are not an extra; they are a pathway to connection, confidence and community.
1/7/2026
Community Impact
The Smith Center relies on its amazing team of volunteers to assist not only with public performances but also with its vital development and education efforts. Here are three reasons you might consider volunteering at The Smith Center.
12/19/2025
Community Impact
When Kevin Spencer performs a magic trick, curiosity is instantly sparked — no matter if he’s in front of a kindergarten class or working with Parkinson’s patients. “It doesn’t make any difference if you’re 5 years old, if you’re 50 years old, if you’re 100 years old … everybody is intrigued by the seeming impossibility of a magic trick,” he says.
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.
5/28/2025
Community Impact
Billy McCleary, a cast member from The Gruffalo’s Child, made a magical visit to UMC Children’s Hospital while in town for the show’s April run inside Troesh Studio Theater at The Smith Center.
4/9/2025
Community Impact / Retrospective Series
Lindsey Jamieson Gilbert, Senior Manager of Programming, was named to Vegas Inc’s 2025 40 Under 40 on March 27, joining other local honorees in that week’s cover feature of Las Vegas Weekly and at an event celebrating all 40 local luminaries at the Sahara Theater.
2/14/2025
Community Impact
A marble mason by trade, Rodriguez figured the new project might need some help during its construction phase. “I knew it was going to be a really nice building, so tried to get on it, but they had enough guys already,” he says. “So I went to City Center and worked on Aria instead.” But The Smith Center stayed in Rodriguez’s thoughts, and when he saw a call-out for volunteers in 2011, he realized he could help out the Las Vegas valley’s new performing arts center in a different way – with his time and energy.
11/8/2024
Community Impact
A dancer since age 3, Las Vegas native Angelina Vera suffered a serious injury in high school that kept her sidelined for a time. The silver lining? It determined the direction of her life, which has helped heal performers across the valley in the years since.
10/8/2024
Community Impact / Discovering The Smith Center
“Super Bloom,” the mural that fills the northeast wall inside the new Starbucks at The Smith Center, brings a welcoming, bright and colorful vibe to a space set to become a meeting place for creative types from Downtown Las Vegas and beyond. The new Starbucks, adjacent to the Discovery Children’s Museum and The Smith Center courtyard, opened its doors in September, with a grand-opening celebration set for November 12. The store offers all your favorite Starbucks’ beloved drinks, bites and treats, along with an eight-seat community table that can be reserved for free for two hours at a time.
11/15/2020
Community Impact
Smith Center educational consultant Jenna Gabriel doesn’t sugarcoat how screen-based learning poses enormous challenges for students with disabilities. “The unilateral nature of screen-based learning can be extremely difficult for students with high-incidence disabilities like learning and attention issues, and even traumatic for students with autism who find their regular routines disrupted,” Gabriel says.