There are 238 shows on sale in Las Vegas tonight. Most of them are not worth your money. These 50 are. We pulled every ticketed show in the city, verified every listing is actually running, dug up the age rules and venues, and ranked the bookable field by 22,637 verified reviews, so you can stop scrolling ticket sites and just pick the night you want. Want the short version? A mind reader at Harrah’s outscores every Cirque spectacular in town, the best family night involves knights on horseback and eating a whole chicken with your hands, and the most famous magic brand on the Strip is one of the worst-rated tickets on this page. The best night of your trip is on this list. Find it, book it, done.
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The big spectacleMichael Jackson ONEThe strongest Cirque ticket, by the numbers.
Family nightTournament of KingsJousting knights, dinner with your hands, happy kids.
Laugh until it hurtsPiff the Magic DragonDeadpan magic, a dog in a costume, zero misses.
Adults onlyFantasyThe Strip’s longest-running late-night revue.
Tribute nightMJ LiveThe King of Pop, full band, 2,172 reviews deep.
Daytime or on a budgetNathan BurtonA 4.9 matinee that leaves your evening free.
The hot ticketThe Wizard of Oz at SphereThe screen everyone flies here to see.
Every bookable show, compared in 10 seconds
| # | Show | Venue | Length | Age | Rating | Reviews |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Colin Cloud: Mastermind | Harrah’s | 1 hr | 10+ | 5.0 | 422 |
| 2 | Paranormal mindreading magic | Horseshoe | 1 hr | 5+ | 4.9 | 646 |
| 3 | Nathan Burton Comedy Magic | FlyOver on the Strip | 1 hr | All ages | 4.9 | 537 |
| 4 | An R-Rated Magic Show | Planet Hollywood | 1 hr | 18+ | 4.9 | 260 |
| 5 | Wayne Newton: Up Close | Flamingo | 1 hr | 5+ | 4.8 | 155 |
| 6 | Witches and Warlocks | Las Vegas Magic Theater | 1 hr | n/a | 4.8 | 193 |
| 7 | Donny Osmond | Harrah’s | 1 hr | n/a | 4.8 | 260 |
| 8 | Piano Man | Planet Hollywood | 1 hr | All ages | 4.8 | 320 |
| 9 | Hypnosis Unleashed | Four Queens | 1 hr | 18+ rec. | 4.8 | 326 |
| 10 | Masters of Magic | Las Vegas Magic Theater | 1 hr | n/a | 4.8 | 431 |
| 11 | Mat Franco: Magic Reinvented | The LINQ | 1 hr | 5+ | 4.8 | 484 |
| 12 | All Shook Up: Elvis tribute | Alexis Park | 1 hr | All ages | 4.8 | 537 |
| 13 | Mike Hammer Comedy Magic | Four Queens | 1 hr | 13+ | 4.8 | 580 |
| 14 | Piff the Magic Dragon | Flamingo | 1 hr | 8+ | 4.8 | 696 |
| 15 | MJ Live | Harrah’s | 1 hr | 5+ | 4.8 | 2,172 |
| 16 | The Mentalist | Planet Hollywood | 1 hr | 16+ | 4.8 | 2,367 |
| 17 | Carrot Top | Luxor | 1 hr | 16+ | 4.7 | 216 |
| 18 | All Motown | Alexis Park | 1 hr | All ages | 4.7 | 387 |
| 19 | Zombie Burlesque | Planet Hollywood | 1 hr | 16+ | 4.6 | 417 |
| 20 | Jabbawockeez | MGM Grand | 1 hr | All ages | 4.5 | 296 |
| 21 | Fantasy | Luxor | 1 hr | 18+ | 4.4 | 253 |
| 22 | VEGAS! The SHOW | Planet Hollywood | 1 hr | All ages | 4.5 | 880 |
| 23 | Michael Jackson ONE by Cirque | Mandalay Bay | 1 hr | 5+ | 4.5 | 1,456 |
| 24 | Tournament of Kings dinner show | Excalibur | 1 hr | All ages | 4.4 | 502 |
| 25 | The Rat Pack Is Back | Tuscany Suites | 1 hr | 12+ | 4.4 | 520 |
| 26 | Australian Bee Gees Show | Excalibur | 1 hr | 5+ | 4.3 | 264 |
| 27 | LA Comedy Club | The STRAT | 1 hr | 15+ | 4.3 | 265 |
| 28 | Rouge | The STRAT | 1 hr | 18+ | 4.3 | 280 |
| 29 | V: The Ultimate Variety Show | Planet Hollywood | 1 hr | All ages | 4.4 | 774 |
| 30 | Blue Man Group | Luxor | 1 hr | All ages | 4.4 | 819 |
| 31 | KÀ by Cirque du Soleil | MGM Grand | 1 hr | 3+ | 4.4 | 850 |
| 32 | Magic Mike Live | SAHARA | 1 hr | 18+ | 4.2 | 238 |
| 33 | Purple Reign: Prince tribute | Planet Hollywood | 1 hr | 16+ | 4.3 | 413 |
| 34 | Mad Apple by Cirque | New York-New York | 1 hr | 18+ | 4.3 | 876 |
| 35 | O by Cirque du Soleil | Bellagio | 1 hr | 5+ | 4.3 | 1,487 |
| 36 | Popovich Comedy Pet Theater | Planet Hollywood | 1 hr | All ages | 4.0 | 338 |
| 37 | Criss Angel MINDFREAK | Planet Hollywood | 1 hr | 10+ | 3.5 | 403 |
| 38 | Eddie Griffin: Live and Unleashed | Planet Hollywood | 1 hr | 18+ | 3.3 | 317 |
Which show is your night?
First time in Vegas and you want your jaw on the floor: book Michael Jackson ONE, or go all in on KÀ and O, the two most expensive stages ever built on the Strip. Love magic, or dragging someone who thinks they hate it: Colin Cloud and Paranormal hold the two best records in the city, and Mat Franco and Piff the Magic Dragon close the case. Kids in tow: Tournament of Kings is the night they will still talk about in July, and Popovich, Blue Man Group and Jabbawockeez all play every age in the room. Girls’ trip or bachelorette: start at Magic Mike Live or Rouge, then check Thunder from Down Under in the headliners below. Grew up on vinyl: All Shook Up, The Rat Pack Is Back, All Motown, Purple Reign and Piano Man cover Elvis to Prince for a fraction of a residency ticket. Staying downtown: Mike Hammer and Hypnosis Unleashed are both steps off Fremont Street. And if you want classic Vegas, the real thing: Wayne Newton is still on stage at the Flamingo, and the reviews say Mr. Las Vegas has still got it.
1. Colin Cloud: Mastermind at Harrah’s
The best-reviewed show in Las Vegas, full stop: a perfect 5.0 across 422 reviews, and no other show in the city can say that. Cloud reads minds like a detective reads a crime scene, and audiences walk out genuinely unable to explain what they just watched. If you book one show from this page, book this one before the rest of the internet figures it out.
2. Paranormal: The Mindreading Magic Show at Horseshoe
A 4.9 across 646 reviews, and it plays in the afternoon, so you get the best-kept secret in Vegas AND your evening back. Frederic Da Silva predicts what you will do before you do it, and years of reviewers all say the same thing: they came in skeptical and left believers. One of the cheapest great tickets in town.
3. Nathan Burton Comedy Magic
A 4.9 across 537 reviews for the matinee that has been packing rooms for two decades, now inside FlyOver on the Strip. Big illusions, fast comedy, kids welcome, and a ticket price that leaves room for a real dinner after. This is the smartest afternoon in Las Vegas.
4. An R-Rated Magic Show at Planet Hollywood
Magic with the filter ripped off: a 4.9 across 260 reviews says the tricks are as sharp as the mouth. It is late, it is loud, it is absolutely not for the kids, and the room loves every minute. Pair it with a late bite afterward from our late-night restaurant list. 18 and over.
5. Wayne Newton: Up Close and Personal at the Flamingo
Mr. Las Vegas. Six decades on stage, and a 4.8 across 155 reviews says the stories and the songs still land. This is the last living link to the Rat Pack era, telling you about it himself from a few feet away. See it while you still can, because there will never be another one.
6. Witches and Warlocks of Las Vegas Underworld
Close-up magic wrapped in a haunted-Vegas seance, in a room small enough that every trick happens at your table. A 4.8 across 193 reviews for the strangest, most intimate ticket on this page. Date night for couples who are bored of dinner-and-a-movie.
7. Donny Osmond at Harrah’s
Sixty years of hits, a full band, and a performer who has been on stage since he was five years old. The 4.8 across 260 reviews reads like a room full of people who came for nostalgia and got a full-scale production. Book the early dinner at one of our Strip picks and make it a proper night.
8. Piano Man at Planet Hollywood
Billy Joel and Elton John, dueling pianos, every song you know the words to. A 4.8 across 320 reviews and the whole room singing by the third number. If your group cannot agree on a show, this is the one nobody complains about.
9. Hypnosis Unleashed at the Four Queens
The cast of this show is whoever volunteers, and that is exactly why it has a 4.8 across 326 reviews: no two nights are the same and every night gets weird. Downtown on Fremont Street, late showtime, adult language. Grab dinner first from our Fremont Street list and make downtown your whole evening.
10. Masters of Magic on Las Vegas Boulevard
A rotating lineup of working magicians in a small theater on the old Strip, holding a 4.8 across 431 reviews. You do not know exactly who is performing until the lights go down, and the record says it does not matter. The magic nerd’s pick.
11. Mat Franco: Magic Reinvented Nightly at The LINQ
The only magician ever to win America’s Got Talent, and the 4.8 across 484 reviews says the trophy was not a fluke. Cameras put the closest card work on every screen in the theater, so there are no bad seats. The safest great magic ticket for a first-timer, and kids from five up are welcome.
12. All Shook Up: A Tribute to the King at Alexis Park
The best-rated tribute show in Las Vegas: a 4.8 across 537 reviews for an hour of Elvis in an intimate showroom just off the Strip. The reviews fixate on one thing, the voice, and they are right to. Early showtime, all ages, easy to build a whole evening around.
13. Mike Hammer Comedy Magic at the Four Queens
Downtown’s best night out: fast insult comedy with magic threaded through it, and a 4.8 across 580 reviews, the deepest record of any 4.8 on this page. Hammer has seen every kind of audience and eats hecklers for dinner. Thirteen and up, and the ticket costs less than most Strip parking.
14. Piff the Magic Dragon at the Flamingo
A man in a dragon suit doing world-class magic while insulting his audience, assisted by Mr. Piffles, a chihuahua with more stage credits than most comedians. A 4.8 across 696 reviews, the deepest magic record in the city. You will quote this show for the rest of your trip.
15. MJ Live at Harrah’s
The biggest tribute record in Las Vegas: 2,172 reviews at 4.8 for a full concert of Michael Jackson’s catalog with a live band and a dancer who has the moves down cold. Fans say it is the closest thing left to the real show. Kids five and up can come, and they dance in the aisles.
16. The Mentalist at Planet Hollywood
Gerry McCambridge has read minds for over 2,367 reviewers, and they still hand him a 4.8. Two decades in residency without the score ever slipping is the most bankable record on this page. If you hate gambling, book the sure thing.
17. Carrot Top at the Luxor
The hardest-working prop comic alive, thirty years into a residency that reviewers still rate 4.7 across 216 reviews because the jokes stay current even when the trunk does not. Rapid-fire, ridiculous, and over before you stop laughing. Sixteen and up.
18. All Motown at Alexis Park
The Supremes, the Temptations and the whole Motown songbook, live vocals, no backing tracks, 4.7 across 387 reviews. Same off-Strip showroom family as the Elvis tribute at number 12, and the two records together tell you that room knows exactly what it is doing.
19. Zombie Burlesque at Planet Hollywood
A campy musical revue set in a zombie nightclub in 1958, and somehow one of the most consistently loved tickets in the city at 4.6 across 417 reviews. It is funnier than it has any right to be and stranger than anything else you will see this year. Sixteen and up.
20. Jabbawockeez at the MGM Grand
The masked dance crew that made silence a superpower: precision hip-hop, no words, 4.5 across 296 reviews. It plays equally hard for kids, teens, and adults who do not share a language, which makes it the easiest ticket in town for a mixed group. Afternoon and evening showtimes.
21. Fantasy at the Luxor
A quarter century as the Strip’s signature late-night revue, and a 4.4 across 253 reviews says the formula still works: dance numbers, a comedian to reset the room, and a strict 18-and-over door. The classic Vegas adults’ night, done properly.
22. VEGAS! The SHOW at Planet Hollywood
Sixty years of Las Vegas entertainment, the Rat Pack, Elvis, the showgirls, staged by a big cast and a live band, rated 4.5 across 880 reviews. It is the story of this city told by the city. Bring your parents; they will cry, and then they will thank you.
23. Michael Jackson ONE by Cirque du Soleil at Mandalay Bay
The best Cirque du Soleil ticket in Las Vegas by the numbers: 4.5 across 1,456 reviews, ahead of all four of its siblings on this page. Acrobats fly through the King of Pop’s catalog in surround sound, and the finale is worth the ticket alone. If you are only doing one spectacle, do this one.
24. Tournament of Kings at the Excalibur
Knights jousting on live horses while you eat a whole roast chicken with your bare hands. That sentence is the review, but 502 people also rated it 4.4, and the parents among them all say the same thing: this was the night the kids picked as the best of the trip. Dinner included, cutlery not.
25. The Rat Pack Is Back at Tuscany Suites
Sinatra, Martin and Davis with a live big band in the Copa Room, an actual old-school supper-club setup off the Strip. A 4.4 across 520 reviews, heavy with people saying it felt like time travel. This is what a Vegas night looked like in 1962, and it still works.
26. The Australian Bee Gees Show at the Excalibur
An hour of falsetto perfection: a 4.3 across 264 reviews for the disco tribute that has held its Excalibur room for over a decade. The setlist has no skips because the Bee Gees wrote no skips. Early showtime, all ages, dangerously danceable.
27. LA Comedy Club at The STRAT
Touring comics rotate through nightly, so you get real stand-up, not a Vegas impression of it: 4.3 across 265 reviews with four showtimes a night to fit around anything. The move for a second show after your early ticket, or a late landing.
28. Rouge at The STRAT
The highest-rated adult revue in the city: 4.3 across 280 reviews for a late-night mix of burlesque, acrobatics and things that would get this page flagged if we described them. Three showtimes nightly. Eighteen and over, and it means it.
29. V: The Ultimate Variety Show at Planet Hollywood
Seven acts a night, jugglers, daredevils, comics, magicians, rotating constantly: 4.4 across 774 reviews for the show built for people who cannot pick just one thing. Two decades running because the concept never gets old. All ages, early showtimes.
30. Blue Man Group at the Luxor
Paint cannons, PVC-pipe percussion, and three silent blue men who have made two decades of audiences lose it: 4.4 across 819 reviews. There is nothing else like it on the planet, and it plays for every age. Sit close if you want to wear the show home.
31. KÀ by Cirque du Soleil at the MGM Grand
The most expensive stage ever built: a battlefield that tilts from flat to fully vertical while acrobats fight up and down it. A 4.4 across 850 reviews for the most cinematic thing Cirque has ever staged. Come for the machine, stay for the moment the whole floor stands up on its end.
32. Magic Mike Live at SAHARA
Channing Tatum built this one from the films, in a purpose-built theater in the round, and it is the production heavyweight of the revue field at 4.2 across 238 reviews. Book early; weekend bachelorette parties clear whole sections. Eighteen and over.
33. Purple Reign: The Prince Tribute Show at Planet Hollywood
The longest-running Prince tribute in America, and the falsetto survives contact with the real thing: 4.3 across 413 reviews. Purple rain falls, doves cry, and the room sings every word. Sixteen and up.
34. Mad Apple by Cirque du Soleil at New York-New York
Cirque lets its hair down: a New York night out with stand-up comedy and live music stitched between world-class acrobatics, and a pre-show party that starts before the curtain. A 4.3 across 876 reviews. The Cirque ticket for people who found the other Cirque shows too polite. Eighteen and over.
35. O by Cirque du Soleil at the Bellagio
The most famous show in Las Vegas performs in, on, and above 1.5 million gallons of water, and no photo has ever done it justice. A 4.3 across 1,487 reviews, graded hard the way every giant gets graded. If stagecraft is why you go to the theater, this is the pinnacle, and pairing it with dinner from our fine dining list makes the definitive Vegas evening.
36. Popovich Comedy Pet Theater at Planet Hollywood
A world-class circus clown and a cast of rescued shelter cats and dogs doing actual tricks. The 4.0 across 338 reviews is honest: adults smile, kids lose their minds. The cheapest guaranteed win for a family afternoon, and every animal on stage got adopted into the job.
37. Criss Angel MINDFREAK at Planet Hollywood
The biggest magic brand in the world, and the second-lowest score on this page: 3.5 across 403 reviews. The production is arena-grade and the illusions are huge, but years of reviews complain the screens and pre-taped segments do too much of the work. Fame is not a ranking. If you want mind-blowing, the 5.0 at number one costs less.
38. Eddie Griffin: Live and Unleashed at Planet Hollywood
A genuinely famous comic doing a genuinely unscripted residency: 3.3 across 317 reviews, because with no script the great nights and the rough ones both end up in the record. High ceiling, no floor, phones locked away. You are not buying a show, you are buying a hand of cards. Eighteen and over.
The 12 headliners every visitor asks about
These are the marquee names, the shows people fly in for. They sell through their own box offices and every major ticket site, so most sit outside the review data we rank with, but you should absolutely have them on your radar, and where we can hand you a booking link, we have.
The biggest screen on Earth wraps Oz around you, with wind, scent and haptics doing the rest. This is the ticket everyone will ask if you got.
A filthy, hilarious circus in a tent where the acrobats work inches from your face. Locals call it the best show in Vegas; the 18+ door is not a suggestion.
The show that brought Cirque to Vegas thirty years ago, and still the most family-friendly way into it. Classic, playful, and easier on the wallet than its siblings.
The most commercially successful magician in history, performing nearly every night. You do not explain Copperfield; you just go before he stops.
The longest-running headliners in Vegas history, still showing you how the trick works and fooling you anyway. They meet the audience after every single show.
Two-time America’s Got Talent winner whose close-up card work looks like special effects. Quiet, elegant, and unlike any other magic show in the city.
Wynn’s answer to Cirque: a 360-degree theater, a floor that becomes the show, and production money visibly burning on stage. The newest big swing in town.
Acrobatics, dancing water, lasers and 3D effects in one all-ages package. The show families book when the kids are too young for Cirque prices.
The best-value ticket in Las Vegas, full stop: a 3 p.m. comedy magic show that has run for a quarter century on pure charm and a cloak of invisibility.
The Australian male revue that has powered a thousand bachelorette parties. Interactive, shameless, and exactly what everyone came for.
Queens from the show, full production numbers, and an audience that arrives in costume. If you know, you already know; if you do not, go find out.
From the Absinthe people: a Wild West saloon gone completely off the rails. Raunchier than Absinthe, somehow, in an even smaller room.
Dinner before the show, from the people who rank restaurants for a living
This site exists because we rank Las Vegas restaurants, so use that. Seeing something at Bellagio, Caesars or the center Strip: book ahead from our fine dining or celebrity chef lists and walk to the theater. South Strip show at MGM, New York-New York, Luxor or Mandalay Bay: our Strip steakhouse ranking has the pre-show classics. Playing the Flamingo, LINQ, Harrah’s or Horseshoe corridor: hit happy hour first and eat off our Strip list. Downtown for Mike Hammer or Hypnosis Unleashed: our Fremont Street picks are all within three blocks. Making it a date: start with the romantic list, book the 6 p.m. seating, and take the late show. Out past midnight: the late-night list is why we built this site.
What we left off, and why
Viator’s Las Vegas shows category carries 176 products, and 138 of them did not make this page. Most are not shows at all: Hoover Dam trips, kayak tours, bus loops, observation wheels, attraction passes and a zipline all leak into the category feed, and helicopter flights have their own ranked page. Club crawls, party buses and pool parties are a different purchase, and a pole-dancing class is a lesson, not a performance. We also cut one duplicate: MJ Live appears twice in the feed, and we kept the 2,172-review record over the 235-review copy. Everything else fell short of the 150-review floor the ranking requires. The near-misses worth watching, each one joining the ranked list the month it qualifies: X Burlesque (99 reviews), Chippendales (47) and the Sphere’s Wizard of Oz, which is climbing faster than anything else in the category and already headlines our big-names section above.
Questions people ask
What is the number one show in Las Vegas right now?
Colin Cloud: Mastermind at Harrah’s. It holds a perfect 5.0 across 422 verified reviews, the only unblemished record of the 238 shows on sale in the city. The deepest safe bet is The Mentalist at Planet Hollywood: two decades in residency, 2,367 reviews, never off 4.8.
Which Las Vegas shows can I take kids to?
Plenty, and the ranked table above shows an age for every show. The family wins: Tournament of Kings (dinner and jousting), Jabbawockeez, Blue Man Group, Popovich Comedy Pet Theater, Nathan Burton’s matinee, and among the headliners Mystère, WOW and The Wizard of Oz at Sphere. Anything marked 16+ or 18+ enforces it at the door with ID.
Which Cirque du Soleil show should I pick?
By thousands of verified reviews: Michael Jackson ONE at Mandalay Bay. O at the Bellagio is the bigger legend and the bigger stage, KÀ is the engineering marvel, Mystère is the family classic, and Mad Apple is the adults-only party. But if you are buying one Cirque ticket on record alone, ONE wins.
How do I see a great show without spending Strip prices?
Go in the afternoon or downtown. Paranormal (4.9), Nathan Burton (4.9) and Mac King all play matinees at a fraction of evening spectacle prices, and downtown, Mike Hammer and Hypnosis Unleashed are two of the best-rated nights in the entire city for less than most Strip parking garages charge. The live-price cards further down this page show today’s actual prices.
Why isn’t Absinthe (or Copperfield, or Penn & Teller) in the ranked list?
They sell through their own box offices rather than our booking partner, so they sit outside the verified-review data our ranking runs on, and we will not blend rating sources to force them in. They are covered honestly in the headliners section above, and when a show there becomes bookable through a partner, it enters the ranking the same month.
How this list is built
The short version: we rank with math, not money. Every ranked show’s rating and review count comes from its live listing, re-scored so a deep review record beats a shallow hot streak, exactly how we rank restaurants. Every listing on this page was verified live and bookable this week, ages and venues were pulled and cross-checked from the ticketing systems themselves, and we re-run the whole check monthly, so a show that closes leaves this page instead of wasting your evening. Every booking link pays us the same either way, which is exactly why the order never bends.