Dolly Parton announces series of shows on Las Vegas Strip

Dol­ly Par­ton knows what a gen­uine, old-school Las Vegas res­i­den­cy looks like. She head­lined one, many moons ago.

Par­ton pre­miered on the Strip at the Riv­iera in Feb­ru­ary 1981, head­lin­ing a 22-week run cov­er­ing three years. She earned a robust $7.7 mil­lion in that series (more than $27 mil­lion in 2025 terms). That com­mit­ment dwarfs what we con­sid­er a res­i­den­cy in today’s Las Vegas.

A lit­tle more than a decade lat­er, Par­ton head­lined at the leg­endary Cir­cus Max­imus show­room at Cae­sars Palace. Sim­i­lar to Riv­iera, that room no longer exists, pulled apart as the Colos­se­um at Cae­sars Palace was devel­oped. That is where Par­ton is play­ing a lim­it­ed engage­ment of six shows from Dec. 4–13, run­ning with the Nation­al Finals Rodeo at Thomas & Mack Cen­ter.

Tick­ets for the fol­low­ing six shows go on sale start­ing at 10 a.m. Wednes­day: Dec. 4, 6, 7, 10, 12, 13.

To say I’m excit­ed would be an under­state­ment. I haven’t worked Vegas in years and I’ve always loved singing there. I’m look­ing so for­ward to the shows in The Colos­se­um at Cae­sars and I hope you are as well. See you there!” Par­ton said in the release announc­ing the show.

In an inter­view in Feb­ru­ary 2022, Par­ton said a mul­ti-week run was not in her plans. She rarely con­sid­ered it until asked.

“I real­ly haven’t giv­en that any thought. It’s not like­ly, because I’ve been per­form­ing for so many years … I love Vegas, I love see­ing the shows, and I’ll con­tin­ue to do shows here and there now and then. But as far as being full blown back at it, I doubt that that’s going to hap­pen.”

At the time, Par­ton was prep­ping to host the Acad­e­my of Coun­try Music Awards show at Alle­giant Sta­di­um in March 2022. That was Parton’s most recent live appear­ance in Las Vegas. It was also the last time the ACM Awards were held in town mov­ing to Frisco, Texas.

She referred to Las Vegas as “a mag­i­cal place.”

“Las Vegas, as you well know, is a spe­cial, spe­cial place,” Par­ton said. “… It adds a dif­fer­ent kind of ener­gy and a dif­fer­ent kind of excite­ment.”

Par­ton is a coun­try super­star and also a mem­ber of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, accept­ing the hon­or after first declin­ing because she felt her cat­a­log was not in the rock genre. But a groundswell of fan sup­port prompt­ed her to recon­sid­er. She released the album “Rock­star” in Novem­ber ’23. She part­nered with a wide vari­ety of rock­ers on the album, includ­ing Paul McCart­ney and Ringo Starr on “Let it Be,” Sting on “Every Breath You Take” and Joan Jett and the Black­hearts on “I Hate Myself for Lov­ing You.”

Parton’s Colos­se­um show will “weave togeth­er sev­en decades of clas­sic hits and fan favorites includ­ing “9 to 5,” “Jolene,” “I Will Always Love You” “Coat Of Many Col­ors” and many more.