The Act Nightclub

I went and I loved it. Different from all the skank themed clubs. This had performance art that was weird as fuk!
Too bad they closed.
They used to party it up in there!

Oops. The news that the Act Nightclub recently closed reminded me that I never got around to reviewing it while it was open. But it’s just as well, because my only suggestion would have been for them to just pack it in. Which they did. So, I’m pleased.
We were initially persuaded to come inside by a promoter who surreptitiously scoped us out while we were reading a map.
Walking through the long, windy entryway felt like entering a haunted house, only less well-​decorated and more deserted. Once inside, the confusing vibe didn’t improve any. There was not much of a dancefloor to speak of, and the limited amount of movement you were allowed was cut short when the floors and stage were cleared to make room for a very, very weird floor show comprised of some acrobatics and some weirdos in costumes. I’m not sure what they were trying to achieve with this entertainment. Was it supposed to be sexy? Scary? Eerie? It was mostly just exasperating.
I would’ve gotten out of there more quickly, if only I could figure out which way the hallways were going.

When you come to Vegas, you want something different. You want something memorable. Maybe you want something a bit bizarre that will leave you puzzled the next day wondering if you really did/​saw that. For better or worse, The Act may be that option.
Sarahs description as Wonderland gone rogue perfectly works here. Donkeys in vests, confetti/​moss creatures, Dark Alice, and even Lady Gaga’s lookalike are just a few of the things you may encounter. Also, in the main room, there is a aerial performer who uses a ring to swing and hang above the bar.
If Dave R. is correct and they are now out of business, it will be a loss to the Vegas night life.

CLOSED — Out of business as of 10÷13÷13
Just found out that last night was the LAST night for this club. Too bad! I really thought this place was fun because it was different!

A LOT of sketchy reviews here tipping the results. I’m talking to you, The Act management!
The performers that do their thing on the dance nights really do a good job.
The problem is: everything else/​
The music is terrible. I know, I know «What did you expect on the Strip?» The crowd = offensive. Worst yet — the management, just a disaster.
The Palazzo (where the club is located) is trying to evict them and I don’t blame them.

The Venetian wants to throw them out for obscenity violations. Why is it that whenever a truly Amazing Club opens in the US, someone wants to get rid of it and generally succeeds?
Moulin Rouge mixed with Eyes Wide Shut. Go before it is gone. Truly nothing like it and while some of the stage shows offended my conservative values I didn’t throw the baby out with the bathwater. Cirque’s sexy show put me to sleep but this, true perfection. If these guys get over the pain of losing Vegas, I will make it a point to vacation wherever they relocate to.
My new hotel of choice is now the Cosmopolitan. Grrrr Venetian and the Board of Sups that will likely support them.

Now that I’ve gone several times I enjoy it more and more each time I go. Music isnt always to my liking but I always seem to have a good time.
Go check it out!

The Act Nightclub had been on my list to check out the next time I was in Las Vegas. The next time came, so I took the fiancée there on a Thursday night for Rebel Bingo. While we had reasonable expectations about the Act based on Unilocal reviews and the wild and wonderful photos we’d seen online, however, we had very little idea about what Rebel Bingo was going to be about. As nightclub venues go, the Act is much smaller than your average Vegas megaclub, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It’s a distinctive looking space with an overall vibe that is possibly best described as Grand Guignol.
The Act was a lot like other dance clubs with go go dancers and overpriced, uninspired drinks at the bar. Rebel Bingo was a special event and it was your not so typical, drunken Brit-​conceived, fun and an enjoyable time. I know the fiancée had a good time… which would’ve been so much better had we won the slushie machine. We left shortly after Rebel Bingo ended, so we didn’t see the Act transform back into its «regular» self. That said, we did manage to see costumed performers and a friendly dominatrix on stilts. I can only imagine what it’s like on a «normal» night. I’d definitely come back.

Okay… idk how I truly feel about this place. It’s getting that rating because I was beyond perplexed. Entering the club is pretty fun and thematic (Alice in Wonderland). You definitely get the sensation that you are falling down the rabbit hole. Thing is… I felt like I needed to take some drugs being in there in order to comprehend all the strange and vile characters present. I was genuinely scared. I couldn’t tell if I was in a nightclub or a haunted house! It’s one thing having to shoo away unwanted men attention. It’s on a completely different level to shoo away a demonic entity. That sounded too harsh-​okay, S&M Eyes Wide Shut folk.
Anyway, the above is all for entertainment which is def more of a 2.5−3 rating however the 1 rating stands as it comes off an empty promise from one of the promoters there. He told one of the girls in my 13 girls group that he would have a table and bottle service for us. Unfortunately all he did was just get us in, which left a bad taste for all of us as we were expecting he was going to keep his word and not just try to get quota/​numbers.

Final stop on the Las Vegas Club Crawl and how fitting to end it at the club where the first hangover movie was filmed… Guys this place is crazy! We got there at about 12 or so I think and it was nuts! — dancers going wild, crowds and crowds of people that’ll turn your life into hell if you’ve lost your mates and are trying to find them!
It’s a typical nightclub with ridiculously loud music, really dark corners and people everywhere (used to love those when I was back at Uni!) but there’s something about the Act that makes it very (for a lack of a better word) ‘unpredictable. What I mean is that, get so shit-​faced there and anything could happen.
I think I might have been doing clap-​pushups on one of the couches at some point!
Anyway, it was great fun and we had a good time!

For those who might not dig the typical Las Vegas strip techno-​infused, guest-​list and often very crowded clubs, the Act is a fun and freaky alternative. That’s exactly why we came our first time last weekend, we really just wanted to do something different.
Different is exactly what we got. For anyone reading this from Southern California, The Act kind of reminded me of a Knotts Scary Farm maze come to life. There were winding hallways and people in costumes and it was great.
We didn’t stay for that long to be honest — not to get the best sense of what the music or crowd were like. But we definitely had a good time and it’s a nice and different alternative to the typical Vegas scene.
If weird, bizarre, and different might be your thing, I would definitely check it out.

The Act is one of the strangest places I’ve ever been. First off, a promoter put us on the guest list by lurking around behind us as we were looking at a map trying to get to Tao. Very smooth.
The Act feels like a weird haunted house, complete with hidden corners and dark hallways. We tried to dance, but they kicked us off the stage for the various acrobatic shows that they have, but there is nowhere to go once off the stage. The dance floor is teeny tiny, and since they blocked off upstairs, downstairs is very, very cramped. We tried to sweet talk our way into a booth so we could sit down, but our new friends got kicked out of The Act for smoking indoors.
There were performers wearing animal heads that were kind of cool, but mostly straight out of a horror movie. The bathroom is tucked into a corner with this weird red lighting that probably hinders all putting on of makeup. And the exit requires direction by a staff member; that’s how hard it is to find.
Since I couldn’t even get a drink because the bar was so crowded, I can’t say I had a very good time at the Act. I kept getting kicked off of the stage, and there were an awful lot of people around me wearing flip flops and jeans and shorts. Not exactly the typical Vegas experience, but certainly something different.

This place was awesome. Kind of thing you can only see in Vegas. This is a nightclub inside Palazzo Resort. It’s called «Act» because they have a stage at the front of the dance floor that you can dance on, but every 30 mins or so, maybe an hour, they clear the stage and they do some sort of «act» on the stage.
My girlfriend and I wanted to check it out because it was her first trip, and we wanted to see things that are quintessential Vegas. We started our night at XS, but the music didn’t impress us there and they packed us in like sardines. So when we couldn’t breathe anymore, we headed to Act.
First thing, when you walk in, its like walking into an old vaudeville theater, but one that has been redone by a demon. It cost us $ 50 total to get in, and the first thing we saw inside was they had this mock-​up of a small apartment with a person walking around inside wearing a giant baby’s head. I know, sounds weird, but it kinda added to the atmosphere. Inside the club was all sorts of strange things — a guy in a werewolf’s mask, another guy in an outfit that looked like it was made of broken crystal. Another guy walking around in black tights, some kind of red bustier, and a black mask that covered everything but his mouth.
We loved the music. It was a mix of dance, top 40, and some house, which was a better change from XS which was nothing but house. We only saw one «act,» but it was a sexual themed one, with a woman in lingerie twirling from ropes above the stage, the on the stage, a group of women in lingerie and half naked men doing a sensual, sexual dance around each other on the floor. Then a guy joined the woman in the ropes in a 69 position and… well, you get the idea. Clothes (at least what they had) stayed on, so it never got pornographic, but it was a bit wild.
My one complaint was that it was a small dancefloor, even with the stage. But, thankfully, it wasn’t super crowded when we were there. There was a crowd, but unlike XS, we had room to dance and weren’t getting crushed.
We got there around 1 AM, and would have stayed for more, but unfortunately, some chick in 6 inch heels stomped down on my girlfriend’s foot and we thought her toe was broken. It wasn’t, but she was bleeding and it hurt her to walk, so we decided it was time to go back to the hotel.
Strongly advise checking this place out. Great music, cover isn’t outrageous, and the acts are pure Vegas. The Act is a lot of fun.

This place was SO WEIRD! AND I LOVED EVERY MINUTE OF IT!
We went to the opening of The Act Afterhours — got to the Palazzo around 3am, stood in line for a while but luckily we were on the guestlist (find a promoter!) so no cover. Took forever for us to get through the maze to the dancefloor, and we were actually at first disappointed at how empty the place seemed. Also how ratchet some of the girls looked in line… BUT WAIT! DON’T GIVE UP YET!
Alice and the Mad Hatter were grinding it up on the dance floor, and some creepy rabbit on stilts with a certain unmentionable item protruding from his pants… ha! Insane. Also, some guy was making it rain dolla bills every few minutes… only in Vegas.
Came out to about $ 27 for 2 whiskey sours. Kind of pricey but definitely worth it for the crazy show we got… Strange is a total understatement! Definitely worth one visit to see some crazy Cirque-​du-​soleil dominatrix shizzzz but because of the tiny dancefloor/​bar I probably wouldn’t go again.
It was impossible trying to leave… drunk girls + maze = confusion: P

This club was CRAZY and now I want to bring all of my friends to experience the same thing we did.
We had never heard of this club, but thankfully a promoter at the palazzo got us to try it. The Vegas gods smiled upon us!
It was incredibly bizarre. The promoter had described it as, «cirque de soliel meets club» and that barely scratched the surface. You walk in through a dungeon-​esque hallway with performers on the way to the main club. Once inside they have a girl doing acrobatic tricks on a hoop hanging above the bar.
The club itself is not very large, and we went on a Saturday night and it was pretty full, which was nice. There are dancers all over in crazy outfits… Imagine a scandalous Effie Trinket from hunger games (too nerdy?). There was even a sexy medusa!
Throughout the night they have shows that get more bizarre as they go, most very sexual in nature. Egyptian gods with light up eyes on stilts and acrobats hanging from the ceiling are just some of the things you’ll see.
People there celebrating birthdays or bachelorette parties were getting new bottles that girls would bring out lit up with fire/​sparklers and it was quite attention grabbing and spectacular.
All in all it was VERY VERY weird (which was the point) but amazing and unpredictable. Sensory overload but a good thing. We will def come back next time we are in vegas. It is def a place that will give you stories to bring home (which is what we all want, right?).
Go. Don’t think about it just go.

I really really loved the vibe from this place! I would say it was more of a lounge than a nightclub, the dance floor wasn’t very big. There is so much to look at, good music kind of like you’re in a circus freak show when people start walking around and dancing in the weirdest costumes I’ve ever seen. But I loved every minute of it! Just wish I would’ve taken a picture with the horseman that was walking around. =) Good spot to go to for drinks and for a great time!
Can’t wait to go back!

I LOVED The Act! Vegas definitely needed something quirky, lively, different and a little scary. If you want a big-​name DJ, lots of scantily-​clad 21-​year-​olds and a slew of black-​out drunk frat guys, this place may not be for you. BUT if you can appreciate a new concept, amazing talent and a speakeasy feel, you’ve found your Vegas Strip gem.
My boyfriend, friends and I came here for NYE 2013; open bar for 2 hours was reasonable: $ 50 for girls, $ 75 for guys and included some appetizers (not passed around often enough and the quality was meh, but I wasn’t there to eat).
As you enter, you’re greeted by a gold statue. I won’t go into detail as it’s not exactly PG-​rated, but let me just say that it sets the tone for the rest of the club. You walk through a windy hallway to be spit out in the middle of the performing area. As other reviewers have said, there is no dance floor. Instead, the Act is set up like a theater. If you go upstairs, you’re technically looking down at the «stage» from the mezzanine or balcony level. There are bars and bathrooms on both floors.
The performances are really what set the Act apart from the rest. Not only are beautiful ladies hanging and twirling from the ceiling in little more than panties and garter belts, but some of them invite you up on stage to gyrate with them. There was also a performer beatboxing a medley of dance songs, which was probably my favorite part of the night. The acts don’t interfere with your own party, though. No one stops the music to focus on the performers; instead, they just happen intermittently throughout the night and you’re encouraged to join in.
The concept of The Act is fresh and fun; I’ll definitely be back and will recommend this club to all my Vegas-​going friends.

This is hands down, the best, most unique club in Vegas.
This place is a modern day Moulin Rouge.
Walking in the club you’re greeted by a gold statue of man with a vagina. The walls twist and turn and wind, then the club opens up and it looks like a theater.
There are little performance put on by acrobats, actors, dancers, beat boxers… It was amazing. Some of these acts were sexual and not passive-​aggressive sexual, but gender-​binding, leaping over the line of obscene.
Typical club attire. Music was all over the place. Top 40, EDM, Hip-​Hop. The DJ really goes with the crowd on this.
Uni-​sex bathrooms (LABELED SEX ROOM).
Cocktail prices are expensive.
highly recommend table reservations as the club is small and there really isn’t a lot of wiggle room. Definitely a MUST DO in Vegas!
Get caught in the Act.

Act is a cross between a speakeasy and a circus. The concept of the nightclub is actually interesting. So why am I awarding two stars? Let me break it down.
PROS:
— I learned from an Act promoter that Wednesdays are for industry and locals. Guys, you don’t have to pay the $ 40 to enter.
— Aesthetically pleasing. Décor is reminiscent of a 1920’s-style club.
— The acrobats are amazing and their performances are hypnotic. One can’t help but stand and watch in awe. There’s performers on stage and above the bar, as well.
— There are couches situated near the stages for general guests to sit on, not just for those who purchased bottle service.
CONS:
— Small space and can get overcrowded, but that’s nothing new about Las Vegas clubs.
— Restroom has unusually dark, red lighting. Good luck trying to apply makeup or wash your hands.
— No dance floor, unless you want to count the small space in between the couches and the stage as a dance floor; although, you can dance on the stage if a performer invites you, or if you’re so drunk you just invite yourself. However, I hardly saw many people dancing. Instead, most people were entranced by the performers and walking characters.
— RUDE STAFF. I’d like to mention that the staff that I did interact with (bouncers, bartenders, and washroom attendants) were professional. Unfortunately, there are rude staff members at this place, rude as in the douchebag variety. During my first and last visit, a male employee pulled us up from our seats to dance with him. He attempted to coax us to dance on stage with the sexy Marie Antoinette-​like dancer with her flashing powdered wig. We politely declined, yet he continued and said to me:
Dude: «You’re in Vegas! Have fun! You have to go on stage, c’mon!»
Me: «Oh, we’re actually from here.»
Dude: «OH. You’re one of THEM. I’ve heard of types like YOU.» *slithers away*
Types like me? What does that mean? Oh, a local who could bring in club-​loving friends and family members, AKA: MORE BUSINESS? Local or not, it’s not a good idea to insult customers.
On a second occasion, I was walking to the Grand Canal shops with a friend who was intoxicated and not feeling well. A promoter stopped us and asked if we wanted to go to Act. I declined. He said that the club was going to be open til 5AM and said that my friend would definitely «get to the front of the line» because she was drunk.
OVERALL
Act isn’t a nightclub to visit if you want to dance. Rather, it’s a spot to hangout at after a show if you want to sip a few drinks and watch some entertainment. Maybe a place to checkout if you weren’t able to grab some tickets to a Cirque du Soleil show. But after my recent experience, there’s no way in hell I’d come back here.

Remember the ’80’s movie with Fred Savage, Little Monsters? Well, imagine Little Monsters had sex with Cirque Du Soleil and Dr. Seuss and gave birth. The Act. The love child of Little Monsters, Cirque and Dr. Seuss. And I kind of loved it. Also, many times, I was waiting for Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise to show up because this reminded me so much of Eyes Wide Shut.
I feel I am at a point in my life where getting stupid drunk and grinding on someone is no longer fun for me. If you want me to go to a club, you better have some entertainment. This place has entertainment for days. I wouldn’t say I ever got offended, but I’m not easily offended. But there were definitely some shocking aspects. Best of all, it is very small by club standards. Rich red fabric, comfy booths, winding staircases. The Act really paid attention to details. There are several performers lounging around who make an effort to keep the party vibe going. The statue of Buck Angel (who I only learned was a real person after the fact) is a nice touch. Interesting place and definitely a unique experience even by Las Vegas standards.