Family-Friendly Shows in Las Vegas in 2026: 18 Shows Kids Can Actually See, by Age

A Las Vegas theater can be inside a casino and still be built for children: Excalibur's arena serves dinner to six-year-olds who eat with their hands, and Treasure Island has seated toddlers at Mystère since 1993. What trips families up is the age rule, which is set show by show and enforced at the door. The eighteen shows below all admit kids, grouped by the youngest age that genuinely enjoys them, with the official minimum for each. Prices are the lowest listed seat on our show pages as of September 27, 2026, before fees. For the casino-floor rules, strollers and where to stay, start with Las Vegas with kids.

The short list

• Youngest kids: Tournament of Kings (Excalibur, $75, dinner included) and Popovich Comedy Pet Theater ($27, 2:30 p.m.).
• Best first Cirque: Mystère at Treasure Island, $59, all ages.
• Best afternoon: Mac King at Excalibur, $45, 3 p.m., ages 5 and up.
• Best for teens: Jabbawockeez at MGM Grand, $92, or Michael Jackson ONE at Mandalay Bay, $99.
• Cheapest: Nathan Burton, $25, and Paranormal, $29, both 4 p.m.

Under 5: shows built for small children

Tournament of Kings at Excalibur is the most all-ages ticket in the city: a medieval dinner show with jousting on real horses in a dirt arena, 6 p.m. Thursday through Monday with a second 8:30 seating most of those nights, 90 minutes, $75 with the Cornish hen dinner included. Under-threes sit on a lap for free and anyone four and older needs a ticket. Cutlery is not provided, which is the point for a six-year-old.

Popovich Comedy Pet Theater puts a circus veteran and a cast of rescued cats and dogs on the V Theater stage at the Miracle Mile Shops inside Planet Hollywood, 2:30 p.m. daily with a 4 p.m. show on some dates, 70 minutes, no age restriction, $27. It is the best cheap afternoon on the Strip for families with young kids; adults without children may find it long.

Mystère is the original Las Vegas Cirque du Soleil show and the best value in the company's lineup: trampoline walls, the aerial cube and taiko drums at Treasure Island, 6:30 and 9 p.m. Friday through Tuesday, 90 minutes, from $59. All ages; children over one need their own ticket. The mid-tier seats see everything in a house this compact.

Blue Man Group at Luxor is 90 minutes of drumming, paint and light with no words, 8 p.m. nightly plus a 5 p.m. show most days and occasional 2 p.m. matinees, from $68, all ages with three and up recommended and under-18s accompanied. The 5 p.m. show is the one for families. Nobody under 18 gets in alone.

V - The Ultimate Variety Show ($34, 7 p.m. nightly, all ages) and VEGAS! THE SHOW ($49, 5:30 and 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday, all ages, under-threes free on a lap) are the two Miracle Mile options when the group spans three generations: twelve rotating acts in the first, a live orchestra and the Rat Pack era in the second. Nathan Burton at 4 p.m. inside FlyOver at the Showcase Mall is the cheapest of the all-ages magic shows at $25.

Ages 5 to 9: the afternoon magic shows and the big rooms

Mac King has played 3 p.m. for more than twenty years, now in the Thunderland Showroom at Excalibur, Tuesday through Saturday, 70 minutes, $45, ages 5 and up with an adult. Clean, quick, built around volunteers, and the one show where bringing kids improves it. Pair it with the pool in the morning and dinner at 5:30.

Mat Franco at The LINQ is the friendliest headliner magic show on the Strip, 7 p.m. most nights, 90 minutes, $50, ages 5 and up; he recruits from the forward sections, so a child who wants to be picked should sit there. Paranormal Mind Reading Magic at Horseshoe is a champion mentalist at 4 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday for $29, ages 5 and up, and holds a nine-year-old as well as it holds an adult. Shin Lim at The Palazzo admits four and up at $65, but it is a quiet, precise show; save it for a child who already likes card tricks.

Penn & Teller at the Rio, 8 p.m., 90 minutes, $58, ages 5 and up, is the pick for a curious child who wants to know how it works; they explain tricks and fool you anyway, and the free lobby signing afterward beats the paid VIP add-on.

Among the big productions, KÀ at MGM Grand admits three and up with an adult, from $69, and its 4:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday shows are the earliest Cirque curtain in town; the near-vertical battle deck is the most impressive machine on the Strip, and it reads best from central, higher seats. O at Bellagio admits five and up from $138, 6:30 and 9 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday, and is the one to buy only for the center sections; from the far sides the pool reads as a flat sheet.

Two tribute shows fit this band and cost $41: Australian Bee Gees at Excalibur, 6 p.m. nightly except Friday, ages 5 and up, and The King Comes Home, an Elvis production at the Westgate, Elvis's own residency hotel, with a 2 p.m. Saturday matinee, ages 5 and up.

Tweens and teens

Jabbawockeez is the Strip's best pure dance hour: the masked hip-hop crew at MGM Grand, 5:30 and 8 p.m., dark Tuesday, 70 minutes, $92, all ages with a ticket required from four. Buy proximity rather than elevation, because the floor is nearly flat and the footwork disappears from the rear. Michael Jackson ONE at Mandalay Bay is the best dance-and-sound night in the Cirque lineup, 6:30 and 9 p.m. Thursday through Monday, $99, ages 5 and up with under-16s accompanied; it lands hardest with a teenager who knows the catalog.

Piff the Magic Dragon at the Flamingo sets its own floor at eight: deadpan comedy, a chihuahua and elite card magic, 7 p.m. Saturday through Thursday, $39, dark Friday. Colin Cloud Mastermind at Harrah's is a mind-reading show for ten and up, $45, 7 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, and the smartest ticket for a teenager who thinks magic is for kids. BattleBots Destruct-A-Thon behind Horseshoe, $50, 6 p.m. Wednesday and Friday and 2 p.m. weekends, is live franchise robot combat and an automatic win for the STEM crowd; it is very loud, so pack foam earplugs for anyone under 12, the venue's own advice.

Tape Face at MGM Grand's Underground Theater is silent physical comedy that works for a seven-year-old and a grandparent in the same row, 7:30 p.m. nightly except Wednesday, 80 minutes, $69, all ages with under-18s accompanied. Opening October 15, Now You See Me Live brings the heist-magic films to the MGM Grand Theater from $77, ages 5 and up; it has not opened in Las Vegas yet, so treat it as a gamble until it does.

Matinees: the times that save a family evening

Popovich at 2:30, Mac King at 3, Nathan Burton and Paranormal at 4, KÀ at 4:30 on weekends, Blue Man Group at 5, Jabbawockeez at 5:30, Tournament of Kings and the Bee Gees tribute at 6. An early curtain means dinner at a normal hour and a child in bed before the casino floors get loud, and the afternoon shows are also where the same-day discount booths cut deepest, as explained in how to get cheap Las Vegas show tickets. For a full budget list, see the best cheap shows under $50.

Shows to skip with children

• Absinthe at Caesars Palace is 18 and over with photo ID checked, and it earns the rating.
• Zombie Burlesque is 16 and up, and the male and female revues, the drag brunches and the hypnosis shows are adult rooms by design.
• Criss Angel MINDFREAK admits children but is recommended for ten and up because of mature content; a younger fan of his television work may still be fine.
• Sphere's The Wizard of Oz is intended for six and up and runs daytime screenings from 11 a.m., but it is a $130 movie ticket per person, with every guest needing one; breathtaking as a building, expensive as a family outing.

The catalog filter at family shows stays current as runs change; for how these rank against everything else on the Strip, see the best Las Vegas shows, and for the Cirque shows against each other, the best Cirque du Soleil show.