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.
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.”