Mac Rating: 5.00 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:52:00

Beyonce sang her I Am... Yours residency here in 2009, Garth Brooks played weekends in it for five years, and Billboard has ranked it the top-grossing theatre under 3,000 capacity in the world. The Encore Theater at Wynn Las Vegas, at 3131 Las Vegas Boulevard South, opened with the resort in 2005 as the Broadway Theater, a 1,200-seat house built specifically for the Tony-winning puppet musical Avenue Q, which Steve Wynn had lured to the Strip believing it could run a decade. Avenue Q closed within a year, and Monty Python's Spamalot took over in 2007 - the room was briefly renamed the Grail Theater for the occasion, and three balcony rows were added, lifting capacity toward 1,500. When Spamalot ended in 2008 the theatre took its lasting identity: renamed the Encore Theater in February 2009 for the newly opened sister resort next door, it sits between the two properties and holds 1,480 seats. Impressionist Danny Gans christened the headliner era and Beyonce, Garth Brooks, Diana Ross, Harry Connick Jr, Robbie Williams, Whoopi Goldberg and Elvis Costello followed, along with the 2014-2016 production Steve Wynn's Showstoppers. Since then the room has run as a pure headliner house in partnership with AEG Presents: multi-night runs by legends and A-list comedians - Sebastian Maniscalco, Jim Gaffigan, Nate Bargatze, Lionel Richie, John Fogerty - who could fill arenas but prefer the room's luxury and scale. That scale is the pitch. No seat is far from the stage, the sightlines are lyric-house clean, and the Wynn treatment extends to the auditorium itself - plush finishes, generous seat width and the sort of production values that made the theatre a Billboard top-five grossing venue worldwide under 5,000 capacity in 2021. For visitors the theatre is reached through the Wynn-Encore esplanade of restaurants and boutiques, with valet and garage parking at both towers; shows typically run 90 minutes without intermission, and the surrounding resort holds some of the Strip's best dining for a pre-show table. It is the rare Las Vegas room where the venue is as much of a draw as the name on the marquee.