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.
6/21/2024
Performances and Artists
Milligan’s dauntless belief in herself paid off, propelling her to star in such Broadway hits as Kimberly Akimbo and Go-Go’s jukebox musical Head Over Heels, along with the national tour of Kinky Boots.
5/29/2024
Education and Outreach
Created by The Smith Center to recognize the state’s top musical theater students, this year’s event featured dazzling singing and acting performances by musical theater students from 23 Nevada high schools, including 10 finalists selected to perform solo routines.
4/15/2024
Discovering The Smith Center
A key member of The Smith Center team has received a most prestigious honor – and deservedly so.
4/9/2024
Education and Outreach
Students and educators from five Las Vegas 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.