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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.

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51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Performing Arts Center Announces 2025-2026 Season — Its 49th!
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Exclusive 40% savings on season subscriptions available June 27 through July 12.

Nevada Conservatory Theatre Proudly Presents 25th Anniversary Season
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The 2025-26 season continues to bring transformative theatrical experiences to Las Vegas audiences. Season tickets now on sale.

Arts in the Center Concludes Second Season with 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Film 'Heart of Cinema Short Film Showcase' June 4
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The showcase celebrates the creativity, passion, and storytelling of student filmmakers.

Arts in the Center Presents 'The Edge of Becoming: Art Without Apology' May 23-24
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This showcase of emerging artists will present work to challenge norms and reflect a complex world.

51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ to Host Southern Nevada Healthy Performers Event
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The May 23-24 event is intended for dancers, musicians, gymnasts, acrobats, coaches, and others interested in preventing performance-related injuries.

Behind the Scenes at Commencement: The Producer
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College of Fine Arts' Larry Henley is the lighting and stage aficionado who brings the ‘razzle dazzle’ to the big event.

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KSNV-TV: News 3

The 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ 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 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ 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.

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For its 2024-2025 season, the 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ 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 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ 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 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Performing Arts Center (PAC) is kicking off its 47th season with a local guitar duo.

KLAS-TV: 8 News Now

The 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Performing Arts Center new season begins September 2023 and continues through April 2024. 

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Recent Performing Arts Center Accomplishments

51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Jazz Ensemble I
The 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ 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 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Joe Williams Jazz Scholarship Quartet, bassist Ed Lacala, received a Graduate College Outstanding Soloist Award. This competition is considered among the…
Shaun Franklin-Sewell
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…
Cathy Allen, Shahab Zargari, Religious Studies Program
Today the London Indie Short Festival announced  that the winner for the Best Documentary Short category went to the interdisciplinary project known as The 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Shoah Survivors Project. Congratulations to all of the film's collaborators!  About the film The 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ College of Liberal Arts religious studies program and 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ…
Nancy J. Uscher
51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ 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
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,…
Adam Schroeder
Adam Schroeder (Music) is nominated for two 2021 Grammy Awards as part of John Beasley’s MONK’estra for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album, and for Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella. This is the eighth nomination the jazz saxophone professor has received since joining the music faculty four and half years ago. The 63rd Grammy Awards show is…
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