Myron Martin

A vision nearly 20 years in the making, The Smith Center for the Performing Arts reaches a significant milestone in March 2022 with the celebration of its 10-year anniversary. After just a decade, The Smith Center has firmly ensconced itself as Southern Nevada's Heart of the Arts, a true cultural hub where community members from all walks of life can gather to enjoy high-caliber performances.

The producers of the new musical AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN, announced today that the world premiere will take place in Las Vegas at The Smith Center for the Performing Arts on October 26-31, 2021 followed by a multi-season tour that will visit more than 50 cities in the 2021-2022 season.

The Smith Center for the Performing Arts just announced it will launch the national tour and world premiere of new musical AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN, opening October 26 with performances through October 31.

The Smith Center is aiming to reopen in October 2021, after having to close its doors due to the pandemic. 

The Las Vegas entertainment community has banded together and recorded a new song, a?oeNeeding Each Other,a?? along with an accompanying video. The song and video can be seen online on YouTube and was created as a fundraiser to assist the entertainment community.

a??a??a??a??a??a??a??The Smith Center for the Performing Arts, a nonprofit organization, will present a sensory-friendly performance of Broadway's #1 holiday hit Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical at 11 a.m. on Nov. 30. To make live theater more accessible for all community members, this performance will be specially designed for audience members with sensory sensitivities and other intellectual and developmental disabilities. Accommodations include the reduction of jarring noises and lights throughout the performance and providing designated quiet areas in the lobby for audience members to take breaks as needed.

Today, producer Jeffrey Seller announced that the national tour of HAMILTON will return to The Smith Center for the Performing Arts as part of the 2020-2021 Broadway Las Vegas Series. Dates for the return Las Vegas engagement of HAMILTON will be announced, along with the rest of the 2020-21 Broadway Las Vegas Series, in January 2020.

International vocalist Michelle Johnson celebrates the great singer-songwriters including Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, Joni Mitchell, Elton John, Smokey Robinson, Carole King, Kenney Loggins, and Paul McCartney. Michelle will be performing musical arrangements by Musical Director Jeffrey Neiman, a stellar live band, and outstanding guest vocalists in Salute to the Great Singer-Songwriters in Myron's Cabaret Jazz at The Smith Center Aug. 9.

 In an effort to celebrate all talents involved with high school theater productions, The Smith Center for the Performing Arts will present a significantly expanded awards program for its seventh annual Nevada High School Musical Theater Awards at 2 p.m. on May 12 in its Reynolds Hall. With community members encouraged to attend, the event will showcase even more musical theater performances than years past and offer several new awards categories.

On March 4, more than 300 elementary students from Clark County schools will have the extraordinary opportunity to sing and dance onstage at The Smith Center as the result of their first experience producing a work of musical theater in their school.

The Smith Center for the Performing Arts welcomes Daniel Neel to its management team as the newly appointed Vice President of Development. With more than three decades of development and financial services experience, Neel most recently served as the Chief Development & Finance Officer for The Animal Foundation, where he oversaw and directed the early completion of a $35 million capital campaign.

The Smith Center for the Performing Arts and The Rogers Foundation announced today that nominations are now open for their fourth-annual Heart of Education Awards, recognizing outstanding educators in Clark County School District (CCSD). Community members are encouraged to nominate teachers through January 18, 2019, as hundreds of award finalists will be celebrated at a special, red-carpet event in April at The Smith Center.

Building on five successful years as a regional affiliate with the national Disney Musicals in Schools program, The Smith Center for the Performing Arts announced today that Disney has selected it as the first performing arts center in the nation to help expand this outreach initiative to rural communities through a unique collaboration with a community arts organization. Developed by Disney Theatrical Productions, the Disney Musicals in Schools initiative is used to create sustainable theater programs in under-resourced elementary schools.

Myron Martin, president and CEO of The Smith Center for the Performing Arts in Las Vegas, influences the Tony Awards with his vote. The excitement builds as he and others will get to see the results on June 10 during the 72nd annual award show broadcast live on CBS 8 p.m. PT7 p.m. CT.

Liza Minnelli was forced to cancel her concert in Las Vegas scheduled for tomorrow evening, appearing with Michael Feinstein, due to illness.

The Smith Center for the Performing Arts and The Rogers Foundation are still accepting nominations through midnight on Jan. 18 for the third-annual Heart of Education Awards honoring outstanding educators in Clark County School District.

Following its successful participation in the 2016 PBS Arts Fall Festival, Myron's Cabaret Jazz at The Smith Center for the Performing Arts will present two concerts by acclaimed group Postmodern Jukebox on August 14, with both shows filmed and available for PBS stations across the country to schedule for broadcast in December 2017. With performances at 6 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., the show will feature highly talented artists.

THE ROAD TO THE NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL THEATRE AWARDS: And The Nevada High School Musical Theatre Award Winners Are…

Following highly skilled performances by competitors on May 21, The Smith Center for the Performing Arts announced the winners of its fifth annual Nevada High School Musical Theater Awards as Adelynn Tourondel from Green Valley High School and Nathan Sink from Centennial High School.

As part of its ongoing efforts to foster love of the arts among Nevada's youth, The Smith Center for the Performing Arts will host the fifth annual Nevada High School Musical Theater Awards at 2 p.m. on May 21 in Reynolds Hall to recognize the state's top musical theater students.