Las Vegas: Curtains to open on Smith Center for the Performing Arts

Downtown Las Vegas' Smith Center for the Performing Arts, set for a March 10 opening, will help fill a community's thirst for culture.

Smith Center for the Performing Arts (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times / March 6, 2012)

Reporting from Las Vegas ——

Myron Martin was in fourth grade when he attended an opera at Jones Hall for the Performing Arts in Houston.
"Our school bus pulled up to the front, and I saw this majestic building, and I knew that we'd gone someplace special," he said of his first encounter with theater. "I happened to sit in the eighth-row center on a mohair seat. Just as the house lights were going down and the curtain was going up, I got goose bumps all over."
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