Lady Gaga is taking Mayhem Requiem from a Los Angeles theater to living rooms and movie screens on May 14, when the performance premieres at 8 p.m. Pacific Time on Apple Music and in 15 AMC theaters around the United States.
The project, billed as Apple Music Live: Lady Gaga Mayhem Requiem, was filmed live last January at The Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles' Koreatown neighborhood. Apple Music will let non-subscribers watch a live stream at the time of the premiere, while subscribers can stream the full performance and the live album on-demand afterward. The live album was produced with Apple's spatial audio technology.
The release comes after Gaga’s theatrical Mayhem Ball tour, a five-act opera executive produced by Gaga and her fiancé, Michael Polansky. Gaga first unveiled that show during her 2025 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival headlining set, and the new interpretation is being framed as both a celebration of the album and a return to her pop roots.
According to the release, Gaga spends most of the intimate evening at The Wiltern at the piano or synths, where she reworks “Abracadabra,” “Disease” and the rest of the track list amid the cracked columns and scattered ruins of the Mayhem Ball. The setup gives the project a different shape from the stadium-scale spectacle that defined the tour, while keeping the material tied to the same gothic world.
That world has stayed busy. At the 2026 Grammy Awards, Gaga performed a rock rendition of “Abracadabra,” went into the ceremony with seven nominations, and left with two more Grammys, bringing her total wins to 16. The Grammys added another marker to a year in which she has kept pressing the album’s live life forward.
The AMC screenings will run in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Minneapolis, Nashville, New York City, Orlando, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Francisco, Seattle, Tampa and Washington, D.C. For Apple Music, the premiere is meant to function as both a one-night event and an on-demand release, widening access beyond subscribers at the moment of release while keeping the full performance inside the service afterward. For Gaga, it is a cleaner answer to the question her headline has been asking all along: Mayhem Requiem is not a side project, but the latest stage of an album cycle still being built in public.
