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The Smith Center for the Performing Arts @thesmithcenter.com · 1d

🚨🎭ATTN #BROADWAY #LASVEGAS FANS🎭🚨 Single-show tickets for the spring 2026 productions go on sale in just 1 week! Secure your seats for #Spamalot, @notebookmusical.bsky.social, #Shucked & @hellskitchenbway.bsky.social on Oct 24 starting at 10 a.m.

#TheatreSky #Musicals #TheNotebook #HellsKitchenBway

The Smith Center for the Performing Arts @thesmithcenter.com · 2d

Read @lasvegasweekly.bsky.social's new interview w/ @willbutler.bsky.social about writing the music for #Stereophonic! Don't forget to secure your seats for #StereophonicPlay at #TheSmithCenter 10/21-26!

#LasVegas #Vegas #VegasLocals #TheatreSky #WillButler #ArcadeFire #MusicSky
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Tony-winner ‘Stereophonic’ cues up Will Butler’s songcraft at the Smith Center

Playwright David Adjmi recruited Will Butler, formerly a member of Arcade Fire, to give the musical interludes in "Stereophonic" verisimilitude appropriate to a show set in 1976.

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The Smith Center for the Performing Arts @thesmithcenter.com · 3d

📣 #NOWHIRING! 📣 #TheSmithCenter for the #PerformingArts in #LasVegas is seeking candidates for:⁠
- #DigitalMarketing & #CRMDirector⁠
- #CRM & #AnalyticsManager⁠
- Application & #DataManager⁠

Learn more & apply now: bit.ly/tsccareers2025

#JobAlert #ApplicationManager #CRMmanager #Vegas #ArtsCareers

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The Smith Center for the Performing Arts @thesmithcenter.com · 3d

@ukeist.bsky.social thanks for sharing! 🤙

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The Smith Center for the Performing Arts @thesmithcenter.com · 4d

🎺A protégé of the legendary #jazz master #DizzyGillespie, #ArturoSandoval began studying classical #trumpet at the age of 12.🎺 Now a 10x Grammy winner, join Sandoval at #Myrons 10/31-11/1, 🎫👉 bit.ly/tscarturo2025

#jazzmusic #jazzsky #musicsky #lasvegas #vegas #livejazz #jazzlounge #thesmithcenter

The Smith Center for the Performing Arts @thesmithcenter.com · 4d

Only 1 more week till the #LasVegas debut of #Stereophonic! Peek into the studio of #StereophonicPlay w/ these official new photos of the 1st tour cast that’ll be touching down at #TheSmithCenter Oct 21-26. ⁠
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#TheatreSky #Broadway #Vegas #DTLV #Theatre #WillButler #ArcadeFire 📸 @j_cervantes

The Smith Center for the Performing Arts @thesmithcenter.com · 4d

🤙Aloha, #NinthIsland! 🌺 Only 1 week until “Masters of Hawaiian Music” @ #Myrons. Join #GeorgeKahumokuJr #DanielHo & THE #TiaCarrere Oct 18 @ 3 & 7 pm.

Limited 🎟️ remain: bit.ly/tschawaii25

#LasVegas #Vegas #9thIsland #HawaiianMusic #ukulele #slackkeyguitar #LiloAndStitch #Lilo&Stitch #WaynesWorld

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Chadwick Johnson @chadwickmusic.bsky.social · 4d

Chadwick Johnson Live in Las Vegas October 22nd at Myron’s at @thesmithcenter.com Love to see you there!

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The Smith Center for the Performing Arts @thesmithcenter.com · 5d

2/2 Presented by Childsplay – a nonprofit theater group based in Tempe, AZ – dozens of elementary schools and thousands of students and educators filled Reynolds Hall for the free student matinees as part of our central mission to provide arts access and education to children across #Nevada. ⁠

The Smith Center for the Performing Arts @thesmithcenter.com · 5d

Student Matinee Season has begun here at The Smith Center’s Education & Outreach Department! The first #fieldtrip of the new school year welcomed a stage adaptation of the children’s book #MaddisFridge by Lois Brandt 1/2

📺Watch now: bit.ly/tscmaddi2025

#STEAMeducation #ChildrensTheatre #TheatreSky

Student Matinee Season Begins at The Smith Center with "Maddi's Fridge"

Student Matinee Season has begun here at The Smith Center’s Education & Outreach Department! The first field trip of the new school year welcomed a stage adaptation of the children’s book “Maddi’s Fridge” by Lois Brandt. Presented by Childsplay – a nonprofit theater group based in Tempe, Arizona – dozens of elementary schools and thousands of students and educators filled Reynolds Hall for the free student matinees as part of our central mission to provide arts access and education to children across Nevada.

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The Smith Center for the Performing Arts @thesmithcenter.com · 8d

Congrats to our friend #CheyenneJackson on joining the hilarious cast of #OhMary! And then right after his run in the #Broadway hit, Cheyenne will shine solo in #LasVegas here at #TheSmithCenter. Tkts on sale now: bit.ly/cheyenne26
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#Vegas #DTLV #TheatreSky #BroadwaySky #Theatre @broadwayworld.com

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The Smith Center for the Performing Arts @thesmithcenter.com · 9d

Oct 9 is #DonorAdvisedFundDay & we’re honoring the generosity of Members who use DAFs to support the arts & enrich our community.⁠ Every gift helps us bring world-class performances, inspiring education programs & unforgettable experiences to the local #LasVegas community.⁠
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#DAFday #DAFday2025

The Smith Center for the Performing Arts @thesmithcenter.com · 11d

🎶𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠🎶 And today, those gates are in #LasVegas around our backstage docks bc #Suffs opens tonight! The Tony-winning #Broadway #musical runs Oct 7-12 w tkts starting at just $35, including fees! Lock-in last-min seats at: bit.ly/tscsuffs25
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#vegas #vegasshows #DTLV #theatresky

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The Smith Center for the Performing Arts @thesmithcenter.com · 12d

2/2 Rendered in white statuario marble, Pinsker primarily worked in mediums such as stone, steel and bronze. Her international sculpting career was even recognized with a lifetime retrospective at the #LasVegas Art Museum.⁠
#Art #ArtSky #FineArt #LasVegasArt #LasVegasArts #VegasArt #VegasArts #Vegas

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The Smith Center for the Performing Arts @thesmithcenter.com · 12d

🎨 #TheSmithCenter features many striking works of art around campus, with quite a few pieces on-loan thanks to the #MarjorieBarrickMuseumofArt at @unlv.edu 🖼️⁠
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Among those works is this #sculpture entitled “Flight” by the late American artist #EssiePinsker (1918–2007). 1/2

#ArtSky #ArtCollection

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The Smith Center for the Performing Arts @thesmithcenter.com · 15d

Featuring...
#Bach #Chopin #Rachmaninoff #ErikSatie #LeonardBernstein #MauriceRavel #ModestMussorgsky #HectorBerlioz #FranzLiszt #CharlesGounod #KrzysztofPenderecki #GeorgeCrumb #WilliamHenrySquire
...and more
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#NowPlaying #HalloweenSoundtrack #SpookyMusic #MusicSky #ClassicalMusic
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The Smith Center for the Performing Arts @thesmithcenter.com · 15d

🎃 #SpookySeason is here!😱We’ve curated a new #HalloweenPlaylist of chilling compositions, scary symphonies & dramatic dirges to make your own 𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑠𝑜𝑛 a bit more macabre. ⁠
Listen now:
Spotify bit.ly/tscoct25
YouTube Music bit.ly/tscoct25ym
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#HalloweenMusic #Halloween #ClassicalMusic #ClassicalSky

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The Smith Center for the Performing Arts @thesmithcenter.com · 15d

Thank you for the #Suffs cover mention and this great interview about the musical opening here in #LasVegas on Tuesday night! bit.ly/lvwsuffs

‘Suffs’ at the Smith Center puts the fight for voting rights to catchy music

The two-time Tony award-winning musical arrives at Reynolds Hall as both voting rights and the performing arts face strong headwinds.

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The Smith Center for the Performing Arts @thesmithcenter.com · 16d

Check out the new @lasvegasweekly.bsky.social for a full-page feature on @suffsmusical.bsky.social—including an interview w/ actress #VictoriaPekel, who portrays Black #suffragist #PhyllisTerrell. Read now: bit.ly/lvwsuffs

#Suffs #Broadway #TheatreSky #Musicals #LasVegas #Vegas #VegasLocals #DTLV

The Smith Center for the Performing Arts @thesmithcenter.com · 23d

📺 𝙏𝙐𝙉𝙀-𝙄𝙉 𝘼𝙇𝙀𝙍𝙏! 📺 #VegasPBS presents “Bob James & Dave Koz: Just Us.” 🎹🎷⁠
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Filmed live on location in #LasVegas right here at #Myrons, this unforgettable hour of music with #DaveKoz & #BobJames premieres on Vegas PBS Oct. 3 at 10 p.m.⁠

@pbs.org #PBS #Jazz #JazzSky #MusicSky #Vegas #TheSmithCenter

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The Smith Center for the Performing Arts @thesmithcenter.com · 24d

It's hard to pick a fave walltag backstage, but 1 that always makes us smile is from #ImaginOcean. B4 #JohnTartaglia brought #FraggleRock Live to #TheSmithCenter, it was his #OffBroadway #musical about fish & friendship that delighted #LasVegas.⁠
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#theatresky #puppeteering #puppets #muppets #vegas

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The Smith Center for the Performing Arts @thesmithcenter.com · 25d

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The Smith Center for the Performing Arts @thesmithcenter.com · 25d

"Hellooooooo!" to all of our new Bluesky followers! 👋👋

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The Smith Center for the Performing Arts @thesmithcenter.com · 26d

Next week, our #Education dept will begin welcoming 1000s of students to #TheSmithCenter for free #fieldtrips. As we continue our mission of providing arts access & education to kids across #Nevada, here’s a sample of the impact our #nonprofit made last year.⁠

#ArtsEducation #STEAMeducation #Vegas

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The Smith Center for the Performing Arts @thesmithcenter.com · 26d

The 1st national tour of the Tony Award-winning Best Play #Stereophonic is getting ready to hit the road. Written by David Adjmi, directed by Daniel Aukin & featuring music by Arcade Fire’s Will Butler, learn more + get tickets: TheSmithCenter.com/Broadway

#Vegas #TheatreSky #VegasSky #VegasShows

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