Guide to Lady Gaga: The Mayhem Ball at Madison Square Garden
The pop icon's latest tour brings back old-school dance pop through her hit album Mayhem and takes audiences on a tour through multiple evolutions of her career.
As far as 21st-century pop stars go, no one pushes creative and musical boundaries quite like Lady Gaga, who reinvents her style and sound with each new project and constantly shows new sides of herself. But with her latest album, Mayhem, Gaga evokes the early 2000s dance-pop sound of her early music, showing that she doesn't just change with the times — she's also timeless.
Audiences get to join Lady Gaga on a journey throughout her music career at The Mayhem Ball, her latest arena tour coming to Madison Square Garden. For six nights only from August 22 to September 7, she's not just singing her hits from Mayhem and other albums — she's putting on a full-blown experience complete with a narrative and immense theatrical flair as only Gaga can.
Don't wait until there's last-minute mayhem — learn more about The Mayhem Ball at Madison Square Garden and get tickets below.
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What album is Lady Gaga touring?
The Mayhem Ball is in support of Lady Gaga's sixth solo album, Mayhem, released in March 2025. Originally, the album was not even supposed to have a tour — until fans responded so positively to Mayhem that Gaga announced one.
In addition to songs from Mayhem, the set list includes popular tracks from her previous albums The Fame and The Fame Monster, Born This Way, Joanne, Artpop, and more.
Where in NYC is Lady Gaga performing?
Lady Gaga is performing in NYC at Madison Square Garden, one of the city's most iconic sports and concert venues located in midtown Manhattan. Please note that the venue does not have an area to check belongings, and bags larger than 22” x 14” x 9” are prohibited.
Madison Square Garden has accessible entrances, accessible seating, and elevators and escalators in all public areas of the arena. Please visit the venue's website for further accessibility information.
What is the runtime of Lady Gaga's Mayhem Ball?
The Mayhem Ball runs approximately 2 hours and 15 minutes, according to a Variety report on the tour's opening show in Las Vegas.
What is the age recommendation for Lady Gaga's Mayhem Ball?
Neither The Mayhem Ball nor Madison Square Garden have an official age restriction for the concert. Select Gaga songs touch on sexual themes, but most of her material is appropriate for listeners young and old. Very young children, however, may be startled by the intense lights and sounds of the concert.
What is Lady Gaga's music genre?
Lady Gaga is primarily a pop artist, specifically dance pop and electropop. That's most of what you'll get at The Mayhem Ball, so be prepared to dance through over 15 years' worth of Gaga's upbeat tunes. She has an impressive range as an artist, however, with albums like Joanne incorporating rock and Americana influences. Gaga also a classically trained singer who, throughout her career, has recorded two albums of jazz music with Tony Bennett and performed musical theatre tunes at awards shows.
What can I expect at a Lady Gaga show?
Lady Gaga never just puts on a concert — she puts on an extravagant, theatrical show that, as a review in USA Today reads, could "rival any Broadway musical." The Mayhem Ball is even sorted into four acts like a classical play, plus a finale and encore, with songs grouped into themes: "Of Velvet and Vice," "And She Fell into a Gothic Dream," "The Beautiful Nightmare That Knows Her Name," "Every Chessboard Has Two Queens," and "Eternal Aria of the Monster Heart."
Gaga also performs a surprise song at each concert, be it an extra song from her discography or a cover. (For example, she performed "Crazy Train" in tribute to Ozzy Osbourne the day he died.) Audiences can expect lavish production value and all the hits they can sing and dance along to the whole high-energy time.
Who else will be performing at The Mayhem Ball?
There are no opening acts or special guests announced to appear at any stop of The Mayhem Ball tour.
Has Lady Gaga performed live in NYC before?
When she performed a residency at the now-demolished Roseland Ballroom in 2014, she said, "It's basically the only room in the city I haven't played." Lady Gaga has brought six of her previous tours to NYC, headlining iconic NYC venues including Radio City Music Hall (solo and with Tony Bennett), Terminal 5, and Citi Field, as well as the nearby MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. She last headlined Madison Square Garden with her ArtRave: The Artpop Ball tour in 2014.
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