7/1/2019
Discovering The Smith Center
After serving as a top audio engineer on tour with Prince, Kevin Harvey has high standards ingrained in his blood. “If you were even a little far from what he wanted, you were going home the next day,” recalls Harvey, now head audio engineer for Myron’s Cabaret Jazz at The Smith Center. “You lived in a pressure zone.”
6/13/2019
Discovering The Smith Center
Those who crave a quick commute to Smith Center shows will soon have an impressive option. Southern Land Company (SLC) broke ground this May on the first-ever residential development at Symphony Park in downtown Las Vegas, a project that will provide 324 apartments directly across from The Smith Center.
3/22/2019
Discovering The Smith Center
Las Vegas just renamed a stretch of Clark Avenue — the portion connecting The Smith Center to the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health — after the late Robin Leach, widely beloved for his roles as an entertainment writer with the Las Vegas Review-Journal and a passionate supporter of the performing arts in Southern Nevada.
11/9/2018
Discovering The Smith Center
If you think you’ve seen all The Smith Center has to offer, think again. Many Smith Center visitors have yet to experience its third venue, Troesh Studio Theater. Seating up to 250, this special theater inside Boman Pavilion houses The Smith Center’s most engaging shows best experienced up close.
6/12/2018
Discovering The Smith Center
There is much more than you know to The Smith Center, Southern Nevada’s leading performing arts center. Curious? You can discover all about our center’s exciting stories and inspiring history by signing up for one of our free public tours, available two to four times a week.
9/16/2017
Discovering The Smith Center
Moments of theater magic have left many audiences spellbound at Smith Center shows. Little do audiences know, The Smith Center was specially built to make this magic possible. Designed with the most elaborate productions in mind, Reynolds Hall boasts a versatile infrastructure custom built to accommodate any special effects, specialized props and more.
12/29/2016
Discovering The Smith Center / Inside the Theater
Tasked with booking all non-Broadway shows and concerts at The Smith Center, Glenn Medas hears a lot of suggestions. He welcomes them all, but with no promises. That’s because many factors impact what fits best in The Smith Center’s three theaters.
3/16/2016
Discovering The Smith Center
In Reynolds Hall you can find a recurring design that comes from the world of music. In our wide-open Upper Lobby, the walls are topped with friezes that – at first glance – appear decorated with abstract geometrical patterns. Actually they are stylized representations of bass clefs, some turned to the right, some turned to the left.
2/28/2016
Discovering The Smith Center
The ornate carpet found through much of Reynolds Hall looks like it might depict a floral design, perhaps a desert rose befitting The Smith Center’s southwestern locale. In fact, however, the design was inspired by a very urban environment – the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris.
10/31/2015
Discovering The Smith Center
Our Dee and Don Snyder Founders Room on the mezzanine level is filled with eye-catching contemporary art. It’s also home to a “smiling” pig on a pedestal. Razorback hogs, an animal associated with “The Natural State,” were a favorite of Mary B. Smith, the late wife of Fred W. Smith for whom The Smith Center is named.