5 Best Performing Arts Venues in West Side, Las Vegas

After an interim home at The LINQ, the men of Chippendales have moved to the South Strip, to Planet Hollywood. The larger stage llows even more staging for a show that always had fancier production values than any G-string revue traveling on the nightclub circuit. Choreography and lighting add further sophistication to the bow-tied hunks who have always kept it respectable enough to let Mom tag along with the bachelorette party. There are usually two shows on weekend nights.

Las Vegas's oldest community theater runs a main-stage season of six or more titles, as well as a "new works" competition and a summer "fringe festival." Productions are staged in a sparse but comfortable theater in a strip mall that's become much more interesting and popular thanks to the growth of Las Vegas's Chinatown.

The Orleans Arena plays to locals with such family favorites as ice shows and touring children's productions, along with sports events such as the WCC Basketball Championship.When it comes to the occasional concert act, the 9,500-seat arena settles for the Strip arenas' hand-me-downs, but has much cheaper beer.

A superwide stage (originally designed to lure TV production) highlights this 800-seat room slightly west of the Strip, which draws a mix of locals and visitors. It hosts the type of headliners who play tribal casinos around the country, Tracy Byrd and Jeffrey Osborne among them.

The Palms's 2,500-capacity music hall has an inventive layout to create great sightlines, and locals love the easy access and parking. It has a flat floor for either general admission or reserved seating, and two decks of fixed seating. Bookings skew more toward veteran musical acts and comedians, running the gamut from the Go-Go's to DL Hughley. It occasionally hosts boxing and mixed martial arts events as well.