Brooklyn Mirage Cancels Even More August Shows

By Michael Gonik

If it wasn’t clear by now, there isn’t a date left on what remains of the Brooklyn Mirage calendar that’s safe from the venue’s ongoing reopening troubles. In fact, two more weeks of shows appear to have been wiped from the schedule in just the last few days.

The latest moves include the relocation of a pair of Subtronics shows to The Great Hall (another venue in the Avant Gardner ecosystem, but with half of the Mirage’s capacity) on July 31 and August 1, a sold-out two-night stint from The Chainsmokers, which was supposed to go down at Mirage on August 7 and 8, but has now been condensed down to a single August 8 performance at Under The K Bridge, and the outright cancellation of deadmau5’s August 9 performance.

In all cases, ticketholders were informed of changes by the Dice ticketing platform, which seems to have handled all communications around Brooklyn Mirage show postponements, relocations, and cancellations following the venue’s failure to pass an opening day safety inspection on May 1. Since then, there’s been no shortage of executive shake-ups and concern over whether the Mirage will actually manage to open at some point this year. The CEO behind the venue’s $30 million off-season renovation was fired, a non-executive DJ-of-the-Board stepped in to handle the day-to-days, the founder of a hedge fund that quietly backed the venue was brought in to pull Mirage out of permitting purgatory, and, according to an Avant Gardner employee speaking under anonymity to protect their job, all that movement hasn’t amounted to much progress. “The company is so broke that certain employees are missing months of back pay and they’re not paying any holiday incentive wages. As far as speculation goes from me, this summer is a wash.”

The last statement from Brooklyn Mirage arrived ahead of the cancellation of its Memorial Day programming on May 20. There are roughly two and a half months left to what was slated to be the venue’s 2025 season, and dozens of high-profile performers left to axe—like Yung Lean, (the already rescheduled date for) Peggy Gou, Black Coffee, Tiësto, DJ Snake, and Everyday People. Here’s wondering if anyone ever hears directly from the venue again.