When Sir Rod Stewart wrapped his 13-year, 200-plus-show Rod Stewart: The Hits residency at The Colosseum in 2024, it felt like a proper farewell. Then in 2025, by popular demand, he came back with a victory lap called The Encore Shows. Now, a full year later, the encore is still going.
Stewart returns to The Colosseum at Caesars Palace this June for three nights, followed by six additional dates already on the books for August. For someone who announced last year that he was done with large-scale world tours, his Las Vegas calendar suggests something more like a rebrand than a retirement.
Honestly, what a treat for the rest of us. Stewart, 81, has spent more than five decades writing the songs we slow-danced to and belted in the privacy of our cars—“Maggie May,” “Have I Told You Lately,” “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy,” “Hot Legs,” “Forever Young” … the list goes on and on. His voice, that famous raspy growl, has carried him through folk, rock, disco, R&B, the Great American Songbook and, most recently, swing. Swing Fever, his 2024 collaboration with Jools Holland and his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra, earned him his 11th No. 1 album in the U.K., a stat he now shares with David Bowie, Taylor Swift and U2. (That’s some fine company he keeps!) Add a knighthood (2016), a Grammy Living Legend honor and twin Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductions—once with Faces, once solo—and you have a career most performers spend a lifetime chasing.
What makes The Encore Shows worth a return visit, even if you’ve already seen Rod in Vegas a dozen times? He builds a new setlist for every performance. Most residency artists have a polished, locked-in show; Stewart treats every night at The Colosseum as its own thing, pulling from a 50-year-plus catalog of hits, deep cuts, the occasional legendary cover and the surprises only he sees coming.
You walk in not entirely sure what he’s going to do, as only someone who’s had such a storied career can pull off. The production has been refreshed for the encore run—new staging elements, that 12-piece band, his backup vocalists—but the soul of the show remains the same. Stewart still strolls out in head-to-toe fabulousness like it’s 1979, and somehow, in 2026, it still works. (At 81, he claims he can still run the 100 meters in 18 seconds. We believe him.)
Stewart has said it himself, repeatedly: He loves this town. “Caesars are the best. They really looked after me. Best place to play,” he told ABC Audio. And it shows. There’s an ease to his Vegas performances that you don’t get from a one-off tour stop. He’s settled in and is having fun. If you missed the original residency or didn’t think you’d ever get another chance after 2024, this is your chance—again. And if the pattern holds, probably another chance after that, too.
Sir Rod is in no hurry to be anywhere else.
Caesars Palace. 7:30 p.m. June 2, 4, 6, Aug. 18, 20, 22, 25, 27, 29, starting at $91.20 plus tax and fee. caesars.com
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