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A New Seating Experience at Myron’s

At Myron's, every detail is designed to bring audiences closer to the performance. Our refreshed seating configuration enhances comfort, visibility and accessibility, bringing audiences closer to the performance than ever before.

Education and Outreach / Inside the Theater

Student Matinee Season Opens With Heartwarming ‘Maddi’s Fridge’

Every year, the nonprofit performing arts center welcomes busloads of local students to its campus for free student matinees – part of The Smith Center’s central mission of providing arts access and education to children across Nevada. Last school year alone, more than 42,000 students and teachers participated in student matinees here.

Inside the Theater

Keeping The Smith Center Current

When The Smith Center opened its doors in 2012, it was rightly hailed as one of the most significant cultural achievements in Las Vegas history. And it wasn’t just a short-term triumph. The Smith Center was designed to be a community hub for generations to come, and that mission requires constant upkeep and modernization efforts all over its campus. 

Education and Outreach / Inside the Theater

The Smith Center Celebrates 30 Years of Camp Broadway

Las Vegas theater kids soared around The Smith Center’s campus in July, sharing stories of high-flying adventures through song and dance as family and friends packed the house for Camp Broadway’s 30th anniversary.

Discovering The Smith Center / Inside the Theater

The Smith Center Honors Its Team of Beloved Volunteers

The Smith Center takes pride in being Las Vegas’ Heart of the Arts®, and our team of volunteers has been instrumental in keeping that heart pumping strongly since the performing arts center opened in 2012. On April 14, The Smith Center honored those volunteers with a festive appreciation event and awards ceremony inside Myron’s.

Broadway Las Vegas / Inside the Theater

A ‘Wiz’ Panel Takes Smith Center Members ‘Behind the Seams’

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.

Broadway Las Vegas / Inside the Theater

Make Lifelong Friends with a Smith Center Broadway Subscription

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.

Inside the Theater

The Inspiring Female Playwrights Behind Blockbuster Broadway Shows

More than ever before, women today reveal groundbreaking perspectives and bring untold stories to light as playwrights. With March serving as Women’s History Month, this offers an opportunity to celebrate how many of today’s acclaimed productions and blockbuster hits on Broadway hail from women’s pens.