Sphere

Saturday, July 18 at 2:00 PM, the 167,000-speaker system at Sphere lets you hear the Wizard of Oz score the way it was meant to fill a room — remastered, re-orchestrated, and directed from every point in the space around you.The production took Herbert Stothart's original 1939 compositions back to the orchestra and rebuilt them […]

Friday, July 17 brings Into the Millennium back to Sphere for the residency's second night — a show that has drawn over 575,000 fans through this Las Vegas venue since the run launched. The Backstreet Boys channel the pop-perfection era of their late-'90s peak: crisp harmonies, synchronized movement, and catalog depth that keeps the room […]

Friday, July 17 at 2:00 PM, The Wizard of Oz at Sphere starts the weekend early with a production that moves you through Kansas, the tornado, Munchkinland, and the Emerald City in full 4D on the Las Vegas Strip.Each act gets its own physical effects: leaves and wind for the tornado, butterflies in Oz, snow […]

Thursday, July 16 at 2:00 PM, Sphere's afternoon show of The Wizard of Oz gives you a few hours inside the venue's 160,000-square-foot wraparound display — the largest immersive screen in existence anywhere in the world.Google AI expanded every original 1939 frame to fill that screen, generating new imagery beyond what the original cameras captured […]

Wednesday, July 15 runs late at Sphere with an 8:00 PM start — an evening midweek slot that puts The Wizard of Oz squarely into Las Vegas night-show territory on the Strip.The pyrotechnics in the Wizard's throne room and the towering fire bursts during the film's climactic sequences hit differently in an evening atmosphere when […]

Tuesday, July 14 at 5:00 PM, The Wizard of Oz at Sphere draws a clear line between watching a film and being placed inside one — and this Las Vegas production makes that distinction unmistakably tangible.Sphere's 16K wraparound display curves up, over, and around the audience while infrasound haptic seats emit tones through your chair […]

Monday, July 13 at 2:00 PM offers a rare afternoon weekday slot for The Wizard of Oz at Sphere — smaller crowd, same full production, nothing reduced or held back for the time of day.Sphere's infrasound haptic seats, wraparound 16K display, and live 4D effects run exactly the same for a Monday matinee as for […]

Sunday, July 12 opens at 11:00 AM at Sphere with The Wizard of Oz, and the morning slot has a particular quality in Las Vegas: you walk in off the bright summer morning and step directly into the sepia Kansas of 1939.The production then expands that world across 160,000 square feet of 16K wraparound screen, […]

Saturday, July 11 at the Sphere in Las Vegas — the final show of Kenny Chesney's summer residency, and last nights have their own unmistakable energy that this building was made for.He has been one of the most consistent draws at the Sphere across multiple runs, and the closing Saturday of the summer residency brings […]

Saturday, July 11 at 2:00 PM, Sphere runs The Wizard of Oz well into the heart of summer and the production maintains its full impact on a Saturday afternoon crowd that arrives expecting something substantial.The 4D effects — wind, snow, fog, fire, and foam apples from above — are triggered live for every performance, synchronized […]

Friday, July 10 at the Sphere in Las Vegas, Kenny Chesney's residency opens its second-to-last weekend with a Friday night show that the summer run has been building toward.His sound is country at its most crowd-friendly: beach-ready, open-road, warm-weather music that the Sphere's immersive visuals turn into something genuinely cinematic. After multiple runs in this […]

Friday, July 10 at 2:00 PM at Sphere, the weekend starts early with a production that has become one of the defining Las Vegas shows of this extended summer run on the Strip.Life-size flying monkeys cross the space via UAV technology during the Haunted Forest sequence — one of the more genuinely startling moments in […]

Thursday, July 9 at 5:00 PM at Sphere, the production showcases the editing work of Academy Award-winning editor Jennifer Lame, who shaped how the 1939 film's pacing translates into the Sphere 4D format.Lame determined when the wind arrives, when the pyrotechnics fire, when the physical effects sync to the emotional beats of the story. The […]

Wednesday afternoon, July 8 at 2:00 PM is a solid midweek slot to finally see what Sphere's collaboration with Google AI actually produced for The Wizard of Oz in terms of visual scope and coverage.The AI was used to expand original 1939 film frames beyond what the camera captured, generating new imagery that fills Sphere's […]

Tuesday, July 7 at 8:00 PM, Sphere runs The Wizard of Oz in one of its later evening slots of the week — a chance to catch the production when the Las Vegas Strip is fully alive outside the venue's walls.Pyrotechnics light up the Wizard's throne room sequences while atmospheric fog fills the Haunted Forest, […]