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.
2/20/2025
Broadway Las Vegas
Lin-Manuel Miranda's groundbreaking show, with its compelling blend of history, musical innovation and social commentary, provides insights into the complexities of the American experiment and the enduring challenges of democracy. Whether you haven’t seen Hamilton live yet or you’re considering catching it again, here are a few reasons to secure seats for the tour’s return to The Smith Center stage.
2/19/2025
Performances and Artists
The Bad Plus has been a hip name to know in – and beyond – jazz circles since the early 2000s, when the Minneapolis group earned coverage by Pitchfork and Rolling Stone for reimagining songs by such ’90s alternative darlings as Nirvana, Radiohead and Aphex Twin.
2/14/2025
Community Impact
A marble mason by trade, Rodriguez figured the new project might need some help during its construction phase. “I knew it was going to be a really nice building, so tried to get on it, but they had enough guys already,” he says. “So I went to City Center and worked on Aria instead.” But The Smith Center stayed in Rodriguez’s thoughts, and when he saw a call-out for volunteers in 2011, he realized he could help out the Las Vegas valley’s new performing arts center in a different way – with his time and energy.
2/5/2025
Performances and Artists
If Chris Barron’s fun recent chat with The Smith Center is any indication, his March 15 shows at Myron’s should be full of entertaining tales and laughable moments. Oh, and Spin Doctors hits, he assures fans of that popular ’90s alt-rock band.
1/15/2025
Performances and Artists
Coming to The Smith Center’s Reynolds Hall on January 26, Jim Henson’s Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock Live is everything a Fraggle fan could dream of –because the Fraggle Rock universe is literally in the good hands of a dedicated fan, Tony Award® -nominated puppeteer John Tartaglia. “It's literally the show that changed my life and got me into the business,” Tartaglia tells The Smith Center.
1/14/2025
Performances and Artists
Ballet Folklórico de México de Amalia Hernández was founded in 1952 by dancer and choreographer Amalia Hernández and quickly gained prominence in Mexico after being featured on weekly programs there during the 1950s.