Diana Ross Is Coming Back to the Strip, and Tickets Drop Tomorrow

The Motown icon just locked in three October nights at Encore Theater after her Valentine's Week run sold out, and the setlist reads like a request sheet every piano bar dreams about.

A Return Booking, Not a One-Off

Diana Ross does not need an introduction at a piano bar. Half the songbook regulars call out on a Friday night traces back to her, one way or another, and now she is giving Las Vegas three more nights to prove it. Encore Theater at Wynn Las Vegas just confirmed a fresh run of Diana in Motion for October 2, 3 and 4, 2026, with every show starting at 8 p.m.

Public tickets go on sale this Friday, July 24, at 10 a.m. Pacific through Ticketmaster. That fast a turnaround, announcement to on-sale in a matter of days, tends to happen when a venue already knows demand is there. In this case, it very much is.

The Valentine's Week Shows That Sold Out First

This fall booking is not a cold start. Ross played Encore Theater in February for a three-night Valentine's Week stand on the 12th, 14th and 15th, and by all accounts every seat went. Those shows also carried extra weight because they were her first Las Vegas performances in more than two years, so the room was reportedly buzzing before she even hit her first note.

Add up February's three dates and this October's three, and Ross will have played the Strip six separate times in a single calendar year. For an artist with more than five decades in the business, that kind of pace on one stage says the demand has not slowed down one bit.

A Setlist Built From Five Decades of Chart-Toppers

Diana in Motion leans on the deep end of a trophy case that would make any headliner jealous. She's picked up American Music Awards, she's in the Rock Hall of Fame lineup of honorees, Washington gave her a Kennedy Center salute, and 2012 brought the recording academy's nod for a lifetime of work behind the mic. She also holds the Guinness World Record for the most charted hit singles by a female artist across both U.S. and U.K. music charts, a stat that says everything about why her catalog fills a room the way it does.

The confirmed set list pulls from that run: the horn-driven kickoff I'm Coming Out, the shimmering groove of Upside Down, and her signature power ballad Ain't No Mountain High Enough, with a cover of Gloria Gaynor's I Will Survive folded in for good measure. Those are exactly the kind of songs that do not need a big-budget arena to land. A packed theater room, a killer band and one legendary voice is plenty.

What It Means for a Room That Lives on Requests

Here is the thing about a catalog like this one: it barely needs the original production to work. Strip away the lighting rig and the wardrobe changes and you still have songs built to be sung with a room full of strangers, which is the entire job description of a piano bar on a good night.

So whether you catch Diana in Motion at Encore Theater in October or just hear the request called out across our bar sooner, the through-line is the same. Some songbooks never go out of style, and Motown's queen just proved the Strip still wants hers on repeat. Pull up a stool, we will find the key that fits your voice.

The Diana Ross Songbook You Might Hear (or Request Yourself)

Here is a run of hits tied to the Diana in Motion booking, some confirmed for the show and a couple of catalog staples worth requesting no matter where you catch her.

1. I'm Coming Out: Confirmed on the Diana in Motion bill, a horn-driven entrance anthem built for a full-room singalong.
2. Upside Down: Confirmed on the setlist, a shimmering groove that still fills a dance floor decades later.
3. Ain't No Mountain High Enough: Confirmed on the bill, her signature power ballad turned crowd-wide chorus.
4. I Will Survive: A Gloria Gaynor cover reportedly folded into the show, the ultimate mic-drop closer for any piano bar night.
5. Endless Love: A career-defining duet ballad and a longtime staple of her live sets.
6. Stop! In the Name of Love: A Supremes-era classic that regularly turns up when she plays a theater stage.
7. Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand): Her breakthrough solo single, still one of the warmest singalongs in her catalog.

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