Best Las Vegas Shows

The Mahalo Top 7

1. Las Vegas Review-Journal: Best of Las Vegas Entertainment and Hotel Attractions
2. Frommer's: Las Vegas Nightlife and Major Production Shows
3. Fodor's: Las Vegas Entertainment  
4. TripAdvisor: Things to Do in Las Vegas  
5. Concierge.com: Las Vegas Entertainment
6. Lonely Planet: Las Vegas Shows
7. IgoUgo: Las Vegas Nightlife and Entertainment Reviews

Vegas Cirque Du Soleil Shows

• LOVE (The Mirage), Prices: $69-$150 - Buy Tickets
  • Las Vegas Review-Journal Staff Pick 2007: "The show itself pulls some new twists from Cirque's familiar bag of tricks..."

• • Variety: "'Love' limns Beatles music as no production, be it for stage or film, has ever done before."

• • LiveDaily: "In a city where false hope shines like a beacon, The Beatles and Cirque du Soleil have united to let 'Love' light the way. Hope has never sprung more eternal."

• • TripAdvisor Reviews  (Note: Community rating; may change)

• KÀ (MGM Grand), Prices: $69-$150 - Buy Tickets
  • Las Vegas Review-Journal Staff Pick 2005: "A new era of Cirque gets mixed reviews for its first attempt at storytelling, but redefines "production show" in its use of cutting-edge technology that gets rid of the notion of a fixed stage."

• • Frommer's Exceptional Rating: "Gleefully borrowing imagery from magical realist martial arts movies such as 'Hero' and 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,' the production makes use of a technically extraordinary set that shifts the stage not just horizontally but vertically, as the action moves from under the sea to the side of a steep cliff and beyond."

• • Fodor's Choice: "Even if the show lacks an emotional knockout punch, it's still an amazing achievement."

• • TripAdvisor Reviews  (Note: Community rating; may change)

• Mystère (Treasure Island at The Mirage), Prices: $60-$95 - Buy Tickets
  • Las Vegas Review-Journal Staff Pick 2002: "With simpler staging, 'Mystere' puts the emphasis on the human element, with gravity-defying acrobats and 'bungee birds' who swoop and soar with the greatest of ease."

• • Frommer's Exceptional Rating: "The show features one simply unbelievable act after another (seemingly boneless contortionists and acrobats, breathtakingly beautiful aerial maneuvers), interspersed with Dadaist/commedia dell'arte clowns, and everyone clad in costumes like nothing you've ever seen before."

• • TripAdvisor Reviews  (Note: Community rating; may change)

• O (Bellagio), Prices: $93.50-$150 - Buy Tickets
  • Las Vegas Review-Journal Online Pick 2007: "This aquatic show places the audience into a surreal dream world and is well known for the stage that continually shifts between water and ground to seamlessly support the beauty and stunning performances in the show."

• • Frommer's Exceptional Rating: "How to describe the seemingly indescribable wonder and artistry of Cirque du Soleil's still utterly dazzling display? An Esther Williams-Busby Berkeley spectacular on peyote? A Salvador Dalí painting come to life? A stage show by Fellini?"

• • Fodor's Choice: "Even if the deeper themes elude you, so much is going on that you may be exhausted from trying to see everything."

• • TripAdvisor Reviews  (Note: Community rating; may change)

Vegas Music Shows

• Elton John: The Red Piano (Caesars Palace), Prices: $100-$250 - Buy Tickets
  • Las Vegas Review-Journal Staff Pick 2005: "[T]ime has given Elton John a stinging, unpredictable wit, and a resonance in his singing that makes the classics come alive as more than just a jukebox of nostalgia."

• • Frommer's Recommended: "It's a gorgeously mounted production, featuring Elton and his lacquered piano, plus artistic video installations and other touches that have earned the show critical raves."

• • Variety: "Elton John has achieved a rare pop-music feat in his Vegas-only show: With David LaChappelle, he has created a career overview piece that's visually stimulating and as artistically sound as it is commercial."

• • TripAdvisor Reviews  (Note: Community rating; may change)

• Barry Manilow: Music & Passion (Hilton Las Vegas), Prices: $82.50-$247.50 - Buy Tickets
  • Frommer's Recommended: "Less technical pizzazz [than 'The Red Piano'], but no less showmanship (not to mention more frequent dates and lower ticket prices) comes from [Barry Manilow], who, bless him, knows just who he is and how to use it."

• • Variety: "[A]s greatest hits revues go, Manilow is among the best in the business, and 'Music and Passion' retains the qualities that made him an amphitheater perennial."

• • TripAdvisor Reviews  (Note: Community rating; may change)

• Blue Man Group (The Venetian), Prices: $71.50-$121 - Buy Tickets
  • Las Vegas Review-Journal Staff Pick 2006: "A custom-built theater at The Venetian makes our favorite Blue Man antics look and sound better, while giving the postmodern pranksters room to grow into some new tricks."

• • Frommer's Exceptional Rating: "It's funny in the weirdest and most unexpected ways, and the crowd is usually roaring by the end."

• • Fodor's Choice: "The first half still defines the troupe's quirky comic aesthetic... deliberately [leaving] much of the new stage in the dark, until it comes time to reveal gorgeous high-resolution video effects and the towering set..."

• • TripAdvisor Reviews  (Note: Community rating; may change)

Vegas Theater Shows

• Mamma Mia! (Mandalay Bay), Prices: $49.50-$110 - Buy Tickets
  • Frommer's Very Highly Recommended: "It seems even better-suited for Vegas audiences, since it's all-ages, innocuous, and promotes much clapping and dancing."

• • Las Vegas Review-Journal: "[T]he show's biggest strength is its ability -- so far unmatched by any other 'jukebox musical' -- to repurpose the ABBA songs into show tunes that, as often not, move the story along instead of interrupting it."

• • TripAdvisor Reviews  (Note: Community rating; may change)

• Monty Python's Spamalot (Wynn), Prices: $69-$99 - Buy Tickets
  • Las Vegas Review-Journal: "Couch potatoes can cue those up at home after they get off their duffs for this one. They won't find anything else on the Strip with both a midnight-movie spirit and a Vegas sense of overkill."

• • Las Vegas Sun: "If this extravagant exercise in humor can be pigeonholed, it's farce. But it is so cleverly written and well executed that it is very high farce - that sometimes sinks to low levels (as in the Flatulent Knight)."

• • TripAdvisor Reviews  (Note: Community rating; may change)

• The Producers (Paris Las Vegas), Prices: $69-$143.50 - Buy Tickets
  • Frommer's Recommended: "[T]he Vegas version of the Broadway smash receives the same treatment other Great White Way refuges get when they come to Sin City: big cuts to make it run at around 90 minutes with no intermission. The good news is that Mel Brooks and stage (and screen) director Susan Stroman are the ones making the cuts."

• • TripAdvisor Reviews  (Note: Community rating; may change)

Vegas Magic Shows

• Lance Burton: Master Magician (Monte Carlo), Prices: $66.50-$72.55 - Buy Tickets
  • Frommer's Exceptional Rating: "[Burton] does eventually move to bigger illusions, but his manner follows him -- he knows the stuff is good, but he also knows the whole thing is a bit silly, so why not have fun with it?"

• • Las Vegas Review-Journal Readers' Pick 2007: "[T]he Best Magician... for a seventh consecutive year."

• • TripAdvisor Reviews  (Note: Community rating; may change)

• Penn & Teller (Rio), Prices: $82.50-$93.50 - Buy Tickets
  • Frommer's Exceptional Rating: "The most intelligent show in Vegas, as these two -- magicians? illusionists? truth-tellers? BS artists? geniuses? -- put on 90 minutes of, yes, magic and juggling, but also acerbic comedy, mean stunts, and great quiet beauty."

• • TripAdvisor Reviews  (Note: Community rating; may change)

• The Mac King Comedy Magic Show (Harrah's Las Vegas), Price: $27.45 - Buy Tickets
  • Frommer's Exceptional Rating: "Perfect for the kids, perfect for the budget, perfect timing if you need something in the afternoon before an evening of gambling, dining, and cavorting."

• • Las Vegas Review-Journal Staff Pick 2007: "The steady stream of laughs and the bargain ticket price tend to make you forget that King can do the crazy magic stuff as well."

• • Fodor's Choice: "King stands apart from the other magic shows on the Strip by offering a one-man hour of low-key, self-deprecating humor and the kind of close-up magic that often requires more skill than the cabinet tricks of the larger shows."

• • TripAdvisor Reviews  (Note: Community rating; may change)

Vegas Comedy Shows

• Rita Rudner (Harrah's Las Vegas), Prices: $59.40-$99 - Buy Tickets
  • Las Vegas Review-Journal Readers' Pick 2007: "Make it six in a row for this perennial winner, with readers following the shopaholic, husband-tweaking comedian on the trek from New York-New York to Harrah's Las Vegas."

• • TripAdvisor Reviews  (Note: Community rating; may change)

• Danny Gans (The Mirage), Price: $100 - Buy Tickets
  • Las Vegas Review-Journal Readers' and Online Pick 2006: "Danny Gans, who can do more than 60 impressions, is this year's leading man."

• • Frommer's Very Highly Recommended: "[W]hen we last saw [Gans], he did a dead-on impression of comedian Jeff Foxworthy that had the crowd rolling, a hilarious bit involving George Burns imitating MC Hammer, and a somewhat freaky but totally on-target impression of Macy Gray..."

• • TripAdvisor Reviews  (Note: Community rating; may change)

• The Second City (The Flamingo), Price: $49.45 - Buy Tickets
  • Frommer's Very Highly Recommended: "One of the best values and highest-quality shows in Vegas."

• • TripAdvisor Reviews  (Note: Community rating; may change)

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