The Smith Center for the Performing Arts’ mission “to inspire artists, audiences, and our diverse community through great performances, enriching experiences, and engaging educational programming” has been accomplished many times over since it opened in March 2012. The non-profit, three-venue complex instantly became a permanent hub for music, theater and dance for a population accustomed to seeing historic buildings imploded in order to make way for the next evolutionary phase.
Planners took inspiration from performing arts centers around the world before deciding on an art deco concept that paid homage to the Hoover Dam. Four thousand tons of structural steel and 2,458 tons of Indiana limestone went into The Smith Center’s construction, with its bell tower rising 170 feet. Acoustics were designed for optimal sound worthy of the symphonic majesty of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra or the trumpet tones of Wynton Marsalis.
Broadway productions such as Kinky Boots and The Book of Mormon that were logistically impossible to present on the Strip were now able to reserve The Smith Center’s Reynolds Hall. Innovative dance and theatrical companies had a welcoming place to stay. The cultural landscape gained in richness and grew in depth. And the Smith Center has only just begun.
Hall of Fame honorees from 2020
Hall of Fame honorees from 2021
Hall of Fame honorees from 2022
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