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5 things you didn’t know about The Smith Center

Since opening its doors in 2012, The Smith Center has welcomed the community to experience all that they have to offer from Broadway plays and weddings, to special events, educational programs and everything in between.

‘Elf’ leading the merry way to Christmas

“Elf the Musical” is based on the 2003 movie hit, which stars Will Ferrell as the endlessly goofy Buddy the Elf, who 1) discovers that he’s not really an elf and 2) leaves the North Pole to search for his real father in New York City.

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Vegas Stripped: Balancing chaos with art — VIDEO

Between the ages of eight and 14, Clarice Tara lived under an umbrella of mental abuse from her mother’s boyfriend. At 14, she left to live with her father, whose abuse of drugs drove Clarice to forms of self-abuse herself.

Sound off on downtown sculpture

Before the end of next year, there’ll be a sculpture in downtown Las Vegas — on a traffic island at Main and Commerce streets.

Local dancers to perform Ailey’s ‘Night Creatures’

LVCDT dancers will perform “Night Creatures” — featuring music by late jazz great Duke Ellington — Nov. 13 at The Smith Center’s Reynolds Hall.

Check out what the Smith Center has to offer in 2016

Newcomers from Liza Minnelli to the Beach Boys join such returnees as Chick Corea and Bela Fleck, Engelbert Humperdinck, the Tenors and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at The Smith Center for the Performing Arts in 2016.

Comic books are for everyone these days

Few Southern Nevadans are as avid fans of the words-and-pictures medium as Pj Perez, who appreciates comic books as a fan, as a comic book writer and illustrator, and as a publisher of comic books and graphic novels through Pop! Goes the Icon, his own publishing house.

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