4/16/2025
Performances and Artists
Did you know that Hammond B-3 organ maestro Booker T. Jones was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992, before Led Zeppelin, Sly Stone, Joni Mitchell or David Bowie got in?
4/9/2025
Broadway Las Vegas / Inside the Theater
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.
4/9/2025
Community Impact / Retrospective Series
Lindsey Jamieson Gilbert, Senior Manager of Programming, was named to Vegas Inc’s 2025 40 Under 40 on March 27, joining other local honorees in that week’s cover feature of Las Vegas Weekly and at an event celebrating all 40 local luminaries at the Sahara Theater.
4/4/2025
Broadway Las Vegas
When The Smith Center put together its 2024-2025 Toyota Broadway Las Vegas® Series, President and CEO Myron Martin felt strongly that one show, in particular, needed to be booked: Parade. “It is rare to experience a production so powerful and emotional,” Martin says. “Based on a true story, Parade is a musical that deals with serious topics. At times I found it heart-wrenching. It is powerful, it is deeply moving and it is glorious.”
4/3/2025
Discovering The Smith Center
We all make online purchases on a regular basis, including tickets for your favorite upcoming performance. The Smith Center remains committed to keeping our consumers safe when they do so, and responding to the continually changing landscape of online security is one of our top priorities.
4/3/2025
Broadway Las Vegas / Inside the Theater
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.
3/27/2025
Broadway Las Vegas
There’s a lot to love about The Smith Center’s upcoming Toyota Broadway Las Vegas® Series – nine shows that have been showered with praise from audiences and critics alike and have combined to receive 23 Tony Awards®, 26 Drama Desk Awards®, 13 Outer Critics Circle Awards® and two Grammy Awards®.
3/20/2025
Broadway Las Vegas
To get you pumped for & Juliet – and to fill your mind with earworms to sing between now and then – we cooked up this fun quiz about Martin and some of the acts with whom he has sent songs skyrocketing up the charts through the years.
3/19/2025
Education and Outreach
On March 10, students and educators from seven Nevada schools ascended to the stage at The Smith Center for the Performing Arts to demonstrate how much they’ve learned from their participation in this year’s Disney Musicals in Schools program.
2/20/2025
Education and Outreach
On February 5, the school hosted a master class by Bailey Ryon, a Broadway veteran and dance captain for the touring production. Ryon taught fifty students in teacher Greg Gaskill’s theater class an excerpt of choreography from “How to Wash a Check,” a memorably cheeky number from Kimberly Akimbo, winner of the 2023 Tony Award® for Best Musical.