Visitors to Vegas might have noticed that sex saturates our culture. Since most of the marketing in town depicts naked or semi-naked female bodies, we're just used to commerce and sex being entwined. Why should our art be any different?
In this way, the Onyx Theatre is the most Vegas of all theaters. The theater is located in the back of a gay/leather/fetish sex shop (really). Once you navigate past the sex shop register where tickets are sold to the hallway, you step out into a rather large off-strip theater house that hosts some of the freshest, most innovative shows in Vegas.
Many of the performers from shows on the strip test their material out at the Onyx. In my few visits to variety shows at the theater, I have seen a man swallow swords and then run a spiral drill bit up his nostril with an electric drill, a comedian in the guise of a Mexican wrestler, a disturbingly-flexible contortionist, and a comedian with a whip. And Rocky Horror Picture fans can get their fix at the theater twice a month.
One of Vegas' best entertainment spots that sadly doesn't get enough attention.