ballet performance

Performing Arts Center News

The Performing Arts Center at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, has long been the home of arts and cultural programming in Southern Nevada. Located on the northeast corner of the university campus, the center is bustling with activity nearly every day of the year.

Current Performing Arts Center News

colorful graphic art illustration with shapes
Arts and Culture |

Shorts: The Worker — where everyday lives, unseen battles, and quiet triumphs take center stage.

the las vegas sphere with words that say xo student design challenge
Arts and Culture |

Public can vote daily to select Las Vegas-based student winners to have their art featured on Sphere's Exosphere in celebration of Pi Day.

musicians on stage celebrating Lunar New Year
Arts and Culture |

Now in its fourth year, this large-scale annual event has become a signature cultural celebration in Las Vegas, bringing together music, movement, and cross-cultural dialogue on one stage.

photo of art installation
Arts and Culture |

The artworks on view will include sculptures, drawings, prints, photography, video and audio art, and more, from an array of national and international artists.

actresses in costume performing on stage
Arts and Culture |

At the heart of this tale is a love story: a beautiful schoolgirl loves the romantic wandering minstrel, but she is engaged to the executioner.

A large orchestra performing on stage
Arts and Culture |

The UNLV Symphony Orchestra is conducted by the orchestra's artistic director Taras Krysa.

Performing Arts Center In The News

KLAS-TV: 8 News Now

The UNLV Performing Arts Center has announced its 2025/26 season and Executive Director, Lori Cobo, shares what’s in store. Beginning this October, award-winning circus performers, one of the most famous choirs in the world, acclaimed guitarists, a preeminent light opera repertory company and a celebrated string quartet will grace UNLV stages.

KSNV-TV: News 3

The UNLV Performing Arts Center is set to showcase an impressive array of talent for its 2025-26 season, featuring local, national, and internationally acclaimed artists.

KTNV-TV: ABC 13

As we move toward Dia de los Muertos, families will have a chance to experience the meaning behind the holiday in a unique way. The UNLV Performing Arts Center will present "Coco" in a live-to-film concert event, featuring a screening of the complete film with musical score by award-winning composer Michael Giacchino and performed by the Orquesta Folclórica Nacional de México.

BroadwayWorld

For its 2024-2025 season, the UNLV Performing Arts Center has announced a lineup of eclectic and award-winning artists, representing international artistry in dance, instrumentals and song.

KSNV-TV: News 3

The UNLV Performing Arts Center is celebrating its 48th season in southern Nevada, revealing a 2024-2025 season lineup of shows that they're calling "eclectic and award-winning" while also "representing international artistry in dance, instrumentals and song."

KSNV-TV: News 3

The UNLV Performing Arts Center (PAC) is kicking off its 47th season with a local guitar duo.

Recent Performing Arts Center Accomplishments

Shaun Franklin-Sewell (Performing Arts Center), director of marketing and patron services, recently earned designation as a certified venue professional from the International Association of Venue Managers. Throughout the year mid-level venue industry professionals receive their Certified Venue Professional (CVP) designation from the…
The UNLV Jazz Ensemble I received Graduate College Large Jazz Ensemble Outstanding Performance in the 2025 Downbeat Magazine Student Music Awards. In addition, one of our students in the UNLV Joe Williams Jazz Scholarship Quartet, bassist Ed Lacala, received a Graduate College Outstanding Soloist Award. This competition is considered among the…
Director Shaun Franklin-Sewell (Marketing & Patron Services in the Performing Arts Center) received a scholarship to attend the International Association of Venue Managers (IAVM) Venue Management School (VMS). The VMS first-year curriculum covers topics such as event management, life safety, marketing and advertising, crowd management and the…
Today the London Indie Short Festival announced  that the winner for the Best Documentary Short category went to the interdisciplinary project known as The UNLV Shoah Survivors Project. Congratulations to all of the film's collaborators!  About the film The UNLV College of Liberal Arts religious studies program and UNLV…
UNLV College of Fine Arts Dean Nancy J. Uscher has begun her term as president of the International Council of Fine Arts Deans (ICFAD). ICFAD is a vehicle through which members share information and ideas that enhance the leadership of deans and associate deans, provosts and associate provosts, university presidents and other arts…
Kimberly James (Music) participated in authoring a historic position paper in the field of voice pedagogy.  This position paper was authored by the Voice Pedagogy Interest Group’s Writers Group: Amelia Rollings Bigler and Katherine Osborne, co-chairs, with Chadley Ballantyne, Brian Horne, Brian Manternach, Yvonne Redman,…