9/20/2024
Education and Outreach
Through the years, Las Vegas High School’s Mariachi Joya has toured internationally, opened for superstar John Legend and performed as part of 2021’s virtual presidential inauguration parade.
On September 10, the group added another major accolade to its impressive résumé – collaborating with Mexico’s world-renowned Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán at The Smith Center for the Performing Arts in front of an appreciative sold-out crowd.
8/29/2024
Broadway Las Vegas
To get you ready for the show’s exciting Las Vegas arrival, let’s test your knowledge of Back to the Future lore, specifically that from the first film, upon which the hit musical is based.
8/23/2024
Education and Outreach
In conjunction with The Smith Center’s education and outreach department, Jazz Outreach Initiative has conducted a series of in-school performances all over town. “We usually have six to eight performances a semester with The Smith Center,” Cordell says. “We love going out to the schools and presenting this program, and The Smith Center has just been fantastic with their support.”
8/21/2024
Discovering The Smith Center
Halkyard, Chief Financial Officer of MGM Resorts International, takes over as Chairman of the Board in the fall of 2024, succeeding longtime Chairman Don Snyder, who stepped down after more than 20 years in the position. Halkyard, who has served two stints on the Board – from its pre-opening phase until 2014, when he moved to North Carolina, and again when he returned to Las Vegas in 2021 – has watched Snyder up close, and says he plans to model his approach after that of his predecessor.
8/21/2024
Education and Outreach
The student matinee program seeks to introduce school-age children to diverse forms of art and culture that might not be part of their daily experiences. That exposure has the potential to ignite a passion for the arts, possibly inspiring future careers or hobbies.
7/26/2024
Discovering The Smith Center
If you’ve been following The Smith Center’s Facebook or Instagram accounts lately (and you should be), you’ve witnessed world-renowned interior designer Roger Thomas’ guided tour to some of the many extraordinary works of art throughout this 5-acre campus – a collection the former Smith Center board member helped build.
7/22/2024
Performances and Artists
Like a bolt of lightning, Celtic Thunder arrived on the international scene with much fanfare in 2007.
The theatrical Irish singing group’s very first concert – at the Helix in Dublin, Ireland – was filmed and released as inaugural DVD Celtic Thunder: The Show. And Celtic Thunder began garnering immediate media attention, earning Billboard magazine’s Top World Album Artist award in 2008, 2009 and 2011.
7/11/2024
Education and Outreach
Luke Martin and Marie Munoz flew to Manhattan for last month’s Jimmy Awards prioritizing the vast learning opportunities over the chance to win money and fame. But naturally, the two high school students’ competitive side came out as the field began to narrow.
7/2/2024
Broadway Las Vegas
Movie magic glitters even brighter when it comes alive onstage. Energizing film adaptations have become an unbridled Broadway phenomenon, and The Smith Center will dazzle Las Vegas audiences in upcoming months with three movie megahits reimagined for the stage – Mrs. Doubtfire, Back to the Future: The Musical and Shrek the Musical.
6/21/2024
Broadway Las Vegas
All that led Harper to a revolutionary idea: staging a revival of Company – an iconic, 1970 musical examining marriages and commitment among New Yorkers – but reshaping the story by switching the main character from male (Bobby) to female (Bobbie), with the plot now set in modern times.