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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

dancers in the rose garden
Arts and Culture |

This free event features art exhibitions, live music, dance and theatre performances, film demonstrations, food and wine tastings, a beer garden, and much more.

Two characters in bridal attire
Arts and Culture |

50 Sisters, 50 Cousins, and 50 reasons not to say I do. NCT presents Charles L. Mee’s Big Love, a hilarious reimagining of an ancient Greek myth.

collage of musicians
Arts and Culture |

NEXTET, the contemporary chamber music series at the UNLV School of Music, features 20th and 21st-century concert music performed by faculty, students, and guest artists.

jazz group holding their instruments
Arts and Culture |

The concert features selections from the Jazz Ensemble I album, My Favorite Things, and Back Home, from the Latin Jazz Ensemble and Joe Williams Scholarship Quintet's release.

Vassar College building
Arts and Culture |

The Vassar trilogy shines a light on women who have shaped history, championed the planet, and pushed the boundaries of science.

the Redfish Piano Trio members holding instruments
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The group will perform 'Reflections of Shadow and Light,' the first concert of the 2026-27 UNLV Chamber Music Series.

Performing Arts Center In The News

KVVU-TV: Fox 5

Mariachi Extravangza Las Vegas returns March 28 at the UNLV Performing Arts Center

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."

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,…