Dead & Company’s successful 2024 residency at Las Vegas’ Sphere will get a reprise. As expected, the band is returning to the venue in 2025, with a two-month stay announced Wednesday that will see the group playing three nights a week on select weekends from mid-March through mid-May, for a total of 18 shows
All the Sphere concerts take place on Thursday through Saturday of their respective weeks. The concerts are set for March 20-22, March 27-29, April 17-19, April 24-26, May 9-11 and May 15-17.
The spring dates will come as a relief to many Dead fans, who flocked repeatedly to the group’s 2024 shows in Las Vegas in sweltering summer weather, and could be found in forums ever since begging the band to come back and set up shop again in 2025, but in a cooler season.
While the group’s ’24 residency got extensions, the announcement for these shows — officially billed as “Dead & Company: Dead Forever – Live at Sphere” — says these are the band’s “only Sphere shows in 2025.”
Note that it doesn’t specify these are the only shows, period — it’s widely speculated that Dead & Company may be commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Grateful Dead in other ways as the year progresses. The announcement for the residency does not take any special notice of the mothership band’s 60th, but does mention that it marks the 10th anniversary of the offshoot group itself.
Sphere tickets, which begin at $145 all-in, will go on sale in stages. An artist presale begins Tuesday at 10 a.m. PT, with sign-ups for that presale already underway. The general on-sale begins three days later, on Dec. 13 at 10 a.m. But for those who really want to get a jump on things and have a little extra spending cash, VIP and travel packages go on sale Thursday of this week.
Presale sign-ups and other ticket information can be found here.
The announcement promises “updated visuals” for the 2025 residency, which is no surprise since, even in the band’s initial stay at Sphere, the visual elements were never exactly the same from night to night, and additional big-screen setpieces were being added even late into the residency.
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