Marvel Studios and AEG Presents Las Vegas have set a date for Black Panther in Concert at Resorts World Theatre: February 6, 2027. The touring production brings live performers alongside a screening of Black Panther, bringing Ludwig Göransson's Oscar-winning score to life on the Las Vegas Strip.
The performance was detailed in a gallery report from KSNV, which laid out the February date and the Resorts World Theatre setting for the live-to-picture event. Göransson's work on Black Panther earned him the Academy Award for Best Original Score in 2019 along with a Grammy for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media, as reported by the South China Morning Post. That pedigree is central to the appeal of hearing the score performed live rather than just piped through a theater's standard speakers.
What made the original soundtrack distinct wasn't just orchestral muscle but its roots in West African percussion. Senegalese tama, or talking drum, master Massamba Diop co-created and recorded key rhythm tracks on the film's soundtrack alongside Göransson; the Chicago Crusader reported that he joined the orchestra for a 2025 Chicago performance. Per Wikipedia, Göransson traveled to Senegal to study Griot drumming traditions while developing the score, building King T'Challa's signature motif out of six layered talking drums performed alongside Diop.
A Venue Built for Spatial Sound
Resorts World Theatre is an unusually fitting home for a score built around intricate, layered percussion. The venue houses Las Vegas's first permanent installation of L-Acoustics L-ISA Immersive Hyperreal Sound technology, a system using more than 200 spatial loudspeakers to deliver multi-channel audio across every seating level, per ProSoundWeb. That kind of spatial precision matters for a score where the talking drum's rhythms are meant to cut through a full orchestra with clarity.
The theater itself was designed by Montreal firm Scéno Plus and features a 13,550-square-foot stage, described as the largest and tallest on the Strip, with the furthest seat only 150 feet away, according to a PR Newswire release. The $125 million venue is a joint venture between Resorts World Las Vegas and AEG Presents, with day-to-day live programming handled by AEG subsidiary Concerts West, per Wikipedia.
From Country Residencies to Film Score Concerts
Resorts World Theatre opened on December 1, 2021, with Carrie Underwood's REFLECTION residency, a run that lasted more than three years through April 2025 and became the longest-running headlining production by a solo female country artist in Las Vegas history, according to MCA. During that stretch the venue was twice named the world's highest-grossing venue under 5,000 capacity on Billboard's Annual Top Grossing Venues list, in 2022 and 2023, per MCA.
Separately, Hoodline previously reported that the Las Vegas Philharmonic is backing a live orchestral screening of Danny Elfman's Tim Burton scores at Resorts World Theatre in a November concert.
A general on-sale date has been announced for the February 6 performance.
