9/9/2021
Discovering The Smith Center
The Smith Center is fully updating its operations to maximize health and safety – right down to its tickets. The Smith Center will transition exclusively to mobile ticketing for its reopening this fall, with digital tickets sent directly to patrons’ smartphones for them to hold under a scanner.
9/8/2021
Discovering The Smith Center
When guests return to The Smith Center after its fall reopening, they will find its neighborhood vibrantly transformed. Multiple new developments recently finished construction near the center, part of an ongoing evolution for Symphony Park – the 61-acre parcel in downtown Las Vegas with The Smith Center at its heart.
9/8/2021
Discovering The Smith Center / Broadway Las Vegas / Performances and Artists
With Southern Nevadans highly anticipating the musical spectacular “CATS,” running October 12 through 17, The Smith Center is partnering with the Nevada SPCA animal shelter for a special cat food drive. This includes an opportunity for community members to enter to win a family four pack of front-row tickets to the show’s opening night on Tuesday, October 12.
9/2/2021
Discovering The Smith Center
The Smith Center’s reopening doesn't just give show-deprived guests a home for live entertainment. It also gives its ushers and other event staff a chance to get back to doing the work they love.
9/2/2021
Performances and Artists
The Smith Center’s reopening season includes a three-show National Geographic Live speaker series, featuring prominent adventurers discussing their inspiring exploits across the globe.
9/1/2021
Performances and Artists
During rehearsals for the Broadway revival of “CATS,” associate choreographer Kim Craven admits she watched “copious amounts” of cat videos.
9/1/2021
Performances and Artists
Their personal stories inspire audiences just as much as their talent. To celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month from September 15 to October 15, The Smith Center shares below the moving histories of artists who shape their artforms and open the door for countless Hispanic performers to come.
8/30/2021
Education and Outreach
Elementary music specialist Anna Stein gets invited to a lot of theater productions. That’s because they all feature her former students, who continue performing through middle school, high school and even college.
8/18/2021
Performances and Artists
When acclaimed Las Vegas vocalist Michelle Johnson judged The Smith Center’s Nevada High School Musical Theater Awards this year, she knew the advice she would pass on to aspiring performers.
8/12/2021
Education and Outreach
“I stayed in teaching because there aren’t a lot of Black teachers, and there aren’t a lot of Black male teachers,” explains Lang, technology teacher with Laura Dearing Elementary School. “Black males in particular need to see a role model in classrooms who looks like them and dresses the way they dress, and speaks the way they speak.”