6/19/2020
Inside the Theater / Discovering The Smith Center
Reopening a performing arts center during a pandemic poses many challenges. Smith Center President and CEO Myron Martin explains some of the challenges that are preventing The Smith Center from reopening anytime soon.
5/6/2020
Discovering The Smith Center / Inside the Theater
In the absence of face-to-face engagement with audiences due to the pandemic, The Smith Center recently launched a series of public service announcements (PSAs) designed to reinforce the value of the performing arts and to continue driving visitors to The Smith Center website for updates on future performances.
4/29/2020
Inside the Theater / Discovering The Smith Center
When the curtain rises again at The Smith Center, numerous team members will work behind the scenes to make its music, theater and dance productions possible. Today, the center continues its special blog series highlighting these valuable team members, whose work spans constructing sets, providing lighting and sound, assisting artists and far more.
4/22/2020
Inside the Theater / Discovering The Smith Center
With The Smith Center presenting hundreds of shows each year, its team members work around the clock to perfect every performance detail, including constructing sets, providing lighting and sound, assisting artists with anything they need, and far more. Today, The Smith Center launches a special blog series about these team members, to share a glimpse into their jobs behind the scenes.
4/17/2020
Discovering The Smith Center / Community Impact
When Marise Mizel first moved to the Sun City Summerlin active-adult community, she immediately joined the community’s travel club. “I wanted to go places and do things, and meet new people,” explains Mizel, now club president.
4/3/2020
Inside the Theater / Discovering The Smith Center
The Smith Center’s stages might be dark for now, but its team remains hard at work preparing for when the doors reopen. To ensure the highest standard of cleanliness and safety when guests return, the center just launched campus-wide disinfecting, alongside general infrastructure improvements.
3/4/2020
Discovering The Smith Center / Supporting the Arts
When The Smith Center opened in March 2012, board member Michael Yackira knew it would make a tremendous impact across Southern Nevada. “There’s something transformational about performing arts centers like this,” Yackira says. “We have so much entertainment in the Strip, but to have a place that is for us locals, that can bring the entertainment that exists in places like Broadway for people here to take part in, it’s phenomenal.”
1/30/2020
Discovering The Smith Center
This week marks an important transition for The Smith Center’s executive team. After guiding the development of The Smith Center from the ground up, Paul Beard steps down today from his position as vice president and COO. This doesn’t signal the end of his journey with the center, however. Beard will continue to serve as a consultant on key aspects of The Smith Center’s operations.
10/16/2019
Discovering The Smith Center
Few professionals in Southern Nevada’s news or marketing industries don't know the name Blue Ash.
8/2/2019
Discovering The Smith Center
Ever since Eliana Martinez first saw a Broadway production at The Smith Center, she says, she’s been “hooked.”