1/24/2023
Performances and Artists
When globally acclaimed trumpeter Jumaane Smith says that music saved his life, he means it. “I went through a lot of trauma and bad stuff during my childhood,” Smith says. But after he started playing trumpet in fifth grade in his Seattle school’s band, “it just became the one positive thing going on in my life at the time,” he explains.
1/23/2023
Smith Center Education Programs Inspire Youths to Chase their Dreams
12/29/2022
Discovering The Smith Center
Rick Darnold can say with confidence that he knows The Smith Center well. A Las Vegas native, Darnold participated in the original capital campaign to fund The Smith Center’s development. His wife Krista further helped open The Smith Center, as its director of corporate partnerships.
12/23/2022
Broadway Las Vegas / Performances and Artists
What happens on Broadway in New York City doesn’t stay in New York City. It affects several hundred theaters across the country. That’s because Broadway serves as the start of a national theater pipeline. The biggest hit shows on Broadway eventually go on tour, traveling to perform at theaters nationwide.
12/22/2022
Broadway Las Vegas / Performances and Artists
In 2018 Frozen also went to Broadway, breathing theatrical life into a story that’s not just about an eternal winter that almost was, but about the enduring power of sisterly love. The stage version has proven itself to be a major success, spawning productions worldwide including Australia, Japan, London and Hamburg.
12/22/2022
Broadway Las Vegas
Did you know that Elsa’s ice dress contains more than 10,000 crystal beads? Or that the King and Queen wear large buckles, based off of actual Viking jewelry pieces from 900 AD? Enjoy these fun facts about the amazing costumes featured in Disney’s Frozen, coming to The Smith Center March 8-18.
12/20/2022
Performances and Artists / Broadway Las Vegas
In its epoch-hopping score and dazzling visuals, the Tony-winning Moulin Rouge! The Musical represents the missing link from Belle Époque Paris to Broadway today, from operetta to the modern musical. More than 160 years of popular song, from Offenbach to Lady Gaga: That’s the raw material the creative team took and remixed into one thrilling, dramatic voice.
12/15/2022
Performances and Artists
When acclaimed pianist-keyboardist-composer Lao Tizer hypes his upcoming show, he doesn’t mention how his original instrumental songs have topped Billboard charts.
12/8/2022
Performances and Artists
Audiences at Nevada Ballet Theatre’s (NBT) production of “The Nutcracker” can experience it with the thrilling knowledge that this show remains the first and only of its kind. Conceived by NBT choreographer James Canfield, and now running for its 10th year, this whimsical and dazzling version of the classic ballet was designed specifically for The Smith Center’s Reynolds Hall.
12/4/2022
Education and Outreach
It will not astonish anyone who knows Siobhan Fergiels, one of 20 teachers to receive a Heart of Education Award in April, that she will use the monetary gift from her award to help her community.