Las Vegas Academy Theatre

The site of the city’s first high school was nearly razed in the early 1990s. Instead, it found new life as the Las Vegas Academy of the Arts, a high school devoted to performing and visual disciplines. The LVA’s Academy Theatre hosts impressive shows in a variety of genres: recent seasons included productions of Sweeney Todd, Cats, Miss Saigon and The Grapes of Wrath. These kids are far better than they should be