10/22/2025
Broadway Las Vegas
When Michael Reilly joined the team behind Disney’s The Lion King in 1999, he couldn’t have guessed he’d still be with the show 26 years later. But really, it makes perfect sense, given the high bar the musical’s has set in Reilly area of expertise – puppetry.
10/2/2025
Education and Outreach / Inside the Theater
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.
9/25/2025
Broadway Las Vegas
“Part of a producer’s job is to be a psychiatrist.” That’s how Zoe Thrall, Director of Studio Operations at The Hideout Recording Studio in Henderson, describes one critical aspect of working with famous bands – especially stormy ones like the fictitious 1970s rock group featured in Stereophonic, the Tony Award®-winning Broadway production running at The Smith Center October 21-26.
9/25/2025
Performances and Artists
Runaway international hit The Choir of Man hits the Reynolds Hall stage on January 8, and tickets are going fast. You don’t want to miss it. Here are three things to know about the show.
9/17/2025
Broadway Las Vegas
Direct from Broadway comes the acclaimed Tony Award®-winning musical Suffs, about the brilliant, passionate and funny American women who fought tirelessly for the right to vote. Here’s a quick guide to the show’s key female characters.
9/4/2025
Inside the Theater
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.
8/29/2025
Education and Outreach
Twenty five years ago, New York-based actress Elena Ferrante-Martin took a role in Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus on the Las Vegas Strip. She couldn’t have known then how much this town would change her life – or how much she would impact its theater community.
8/29/2025
Broadway Las Vegas
When Las Vegas native Danielle Tapia read that she’d won tickets to every Toyota Broadway Las Vegas® production at The Smith Center this season, she couldn’t believe her eyes. “And then I was sent the tickets to add to my mobile wallet!” Tapia says. “What a gift. I am so excited!”
8/28/2025
Remember when rock ruled the radio? It was never truer than in the 1970s, when electric guitars and magical voices dominated the airwaves, and bands sold out stadiums around the world. Stereophonic, a Tony Award®-winning play onstage at The Smith Center from October 21-26, revels in that era the best way possible – by taking audiences inside a recording session as a band on the verge of superstardom lays down its potential breakthrough album.
8/1/2025
Education and Outreach / Inside the Theater
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.