Dead & Company are headed back to Sphere. The jam band pairing surviving members of the Grateful Dead with singer-songwriter John Mayer said Wednesday that it will play an 18-show residency at the state-of-the-art dome-shaped venue in Las Vegas next spring, less than a year after the group completed an acclaimed 30-show run there. Scheduled to mark the 10th anniversary of Dead & Company’s formation in 2015, the new Sphere gigs are set to begin March 20 and run through May 17.
In an interview this past summer with The Times, Weir described the band’s first residency as “a work in progress” and said he envisioned more interactivity between the musicians and the crew controlling Sphere’s visual content. “At some point, the tech will evolve to the point where those guys can intuit where we’re headed and then be there with a little surprise for us,” Weir said. Tickets for the 2025 residency will go on sale Dec.