7/23/2019
Education and Outreach
Students who walk into Richard Knoeppel’s architecture class at Advanced Technologies Academy find much more than textbooks. In fact, they dive into lessons using cutting-edge, industry-standard architecture software and hardware.
7/9/2019
Performances and Artists
Everyone knows what makes India’s Bollywood films so addictive: The outrageously high-energy musical numbers. Breaking out in almost every scene, these elaborate song-and-dance routines suck in audiences with dazzling costumes, infectious original music and athletic dance steps. This same flashy and exuberant musical celebration is captured live on stage in “Taj Express."
7/8/2019
Performances and Artists
Few people can say they have been personally mentored by Latin-music icon Tito Puente. But when Pete Escovedo met Puente as an ambitious 18 year old, Puente saw a spark in the teenager that he decided to nurture. “I looked up to him as the greatest timbale (player) ever,” Escovedo recalls.
7/3/2019
Education and Outreach
The first time Las Vegas student Sophia Wilson stepped on stage at the Minskoff Theatre on Broadway, she felt a sense of belonging. That’s because Wilson, along with fellow Las Vegas student Joey Cooper, traveled to Broadway for a reason in June: to represent Nevada while competing in the 2019 National High School Musical Theatre Awards, the Jimmy Awards.
7/1/2019
Discovering The Smith Center
After serving as a top audio engineer on tour with Prince, Kevin Harvey has high standards ingrained in his blood. “If you were even a little far from what he wanted, you were going home the next day,” recalls Harvey, now head audio engineer for Myron’s Cabaret Jazz at The Smith Center. “You lived in a pressure zone.”
6/28/2019
God Lives in Glass, which was inspired by Dr. Robert Landry’s book God Lives in Glass: Reflections of God Through the Eyes of a Child, reveals how kids of different cultures, races, religions and nationalities around the world view the notion of God through their drawings and stories.
6/26/2019
Performances and Artists
Keiko Matsui's reverence for life might serve as the reason why the acclaimed artist has intertwined her sweeping instrumental music with global causes throughout her decades-long career, which includes sharing the stage with greats such as Miles Davis and Stevie Wonder, as well as recording 28 hit studio albums.
6/21/2019
Family Programming
Catherine McNamara observes two immediate reactions from children when they experience the gigantic, moving puppets in live theater show.
6/17/2019
Performances and Artists
Raised in a small fishing village in Greece, he still remembers growing up within a half-hour drive of Sparta and “3,000 year-old monuments” — all of which laid the foundation for his musical aspirations. “When the time came for me to create, I thought, ‘what could I write with music that would last more than a week or a year?’” he recalls.
6/14/2019
Performances and Artists
Jackie Evancho never expected to be famous. Not even when she succeeded in earning a coveted spot on season five of hit NBC show America’s Got Talent at the tender age of 10. “I saw it as something I’d do, and then everything would go right back to normal,” the vocalist recalls. Spoiler alert: she was wrong.