Smith Center Blog

Broadway Las Vegas / Community Impact

An Extra Special Storytime

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.

Community Impact

Brightening the Day

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.

Broadway Las Vegas

Some Like It Hot: ‘An All-Out Song-and-Dance Spectacular’

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.

Discovering The Smith Center / Inside the Theater

The Smith Center Honors Its Team of Beloved Volunteers

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.

Performances and Artists

Booker T. Jones: The Living Legend Comes to Myron’s

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?

Broadway Las Vegas / Inside the Theater

A ‘Wiz’ Panel Takes Smith Center Members ‘Behind the Seams’

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.

Community Impact / Retrospective Series

The Smith Center’s Lindsey Jamieson Gilbert Selected for 40 Under 40

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.

Broadway Las Vegas

Parade: The Show You Shouldn’t Miss This Season

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.”

Discovering The Smith Center

From the Desk of Myron Martin: Enhanced Security Update

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.

Broadway Las Vegas / Inside the Theater

Make Lifelong Friends with a Smith Center Broadway Subscription

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.