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.
7/29/2025
Broadway Las Vegas
Direct from Broadway comes the Tony Award-winning musical Suffs, about the brilliant, passionate women who fought tirelessly for the right to vote. From the groundbreaking mind of Shaina Taub, this “thrilling, inspiring and dazzlingly entertaining” (Variety) musical brings its highly anticipated national tour to The Smith Center from October 7-12.
6/26/2025
Education and Outreach
NVHSMTA’s 2025 Outstanding Lead Actor and recent Las Vegas Academy of the Arts graduate Chris Hayes won his spot at The National High School Musical Theatre Awards® — commonly referred to as the Jimmy Awards® — thanks to a charismatic performance as Gaston from Beauty and the Beast singing “Me” in The Smith Center’s Reynolds Hall on May 4. Hayes reprised the role at The Jimmys when chosen for the coveted Character Medley round, thus making him eligible for a finalist spot—which he was selected for and then won as well!
5/30/2025
Broadway Las Vegas / Community Impact
On May 23, The Smith Center partnered with the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District on a special event at Whitney Library, featuring cast members from Hamilton, the global phenomenon that recently concluded its third run at Reynolds Hall.
5/28/2025
Community Impact
Billy McCleary, a cast member from The Gruffalo’s Child, made a magical visit to UMC Children’s Hospital while in town for the show’s April run inside Troesh Studio Theater at The Smith Center.
4/29/2025
Broadway Las Vegas
The Smith Center’s 2025-2026 Toyota Broadway Las Vegas® Series opens in perfect style – with a show The New York Times called a “Super-Sized, All-Out Song-And-Dance Spectacular!” Hilarious, Tony®- and Grammy®-winning musical comedy Some Like It Hot runs onstage inside Reynolds Hall from July 22-27.
4/25/2025
Discovering The Smith Center / Inside the Theater
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.