Lady Gaga’s new concert film, Lady Gaga in Harlequin Live — One Night Only, will premiere on YouTube on Christmas Eve (December 24th).
Captured on September 30th, 2024 at the Belasco Theater in Los Angeles, the concert film depicts Lady Gaga performing the entirety of her 2024 jazz and traditional pop album Harlequin. That album arrived as a companion soundtrack to the 2024 film Joker: Folie à Deux, in which Gaga starred as Harley Quinn. It features reinterpretations of cuts from the Great American Songbook, such as “Get Happy,” “Smile,” and “That’s Life,” as well as a pair of originals from the film, “Folie à Deux” and “Happy Mistake.”
As the concert film’s title suggests, Lady Gaga performed the album in full to a small group of fans for one night only following Harlequin’s release in September 2024. Attendees were required to lock their phones in pouches, and Gaga performed on a set dressed to resemble a “dingy apartment.” Gaga took the stage in character as Harlequin (not as Harley Quinn), and presented the performance as if it was a musical instead of a traditional concert.
The set also featured an homage to Gaga’s late collaborator Tony Bennett, with whom she made two jazz albums: 2014’s Cheek to Cheek and 2021’s Love for Sale. During her rendintion of “Smile,” a video of Bennett began playing on a black-and-white television onstage. Discussing the nod to Bennett with Variety, Gaga said that “Smile” was one of his favorite songs, and the moment was “one of those wild moments in a stage performance where you’re bringing in a little bit of the real world, with a little bit of a wink.”
The film was shot by director of photography Marcell Rév — who also collaborated with Gaga on the video for “Disease” — with musical direction by Gaga, Brian Newman, Tim Stewart, and Alex Smith. She initially premiered the film during an event at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles on December 18th, 2025. In a Q&A discussion following the screening, Gaga described the album and film as “a kind of a rebellious project. And, by Harlequin standards, Christmas is the perfect time to release something rebellious.”
Lady Gaga in Harlequin Live — One Night Only will land on YouTube on December 24th at 4:00 p.m. PST.
It’s been a busy year for Lady Gaga, who released the new album Mayhem, headlined Coachella, played a show in Rio de Janeiro that drew 2.5 million attendees, launched her lauded “Mayhem Ball” tour, and guest starred on the new season of Wednesday on Netflix.
She also received seven nominations for the upcoming 2026 Grammys. In addition to nabbing Record and Song of the Year nominations for “Abracadabra” — one of the Best Songs of 2025 — and an Album of the Year nod for Mayhem, Gaga earned a nomination for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for Harlequin. She’s got a final stretch of tour dates coming up throughout the winter and spring in support of Mayhem; get tickets to see Lady Gaga here.
