No Doubt will reunite for a series of performances at the Las Vegas Sphere in May 2026, the band confirmed Friday. It will be the ska-punk group’s first residency in over a decade, and the venue’s first woman-fronted performance since it opened in 2023.
“The opportunity to create a show at Sphere excites me in a new way. The venue is unique and modern and it opens up a whole new visual palette for us to be creative,” frontwoman Gwen Stefani said in a statement.
“Doing it with No Doubt feels like going back in time to relive our history, while also creating something new in a way we never could have imagined.”
The news was hinted at on the Sphere’s Instagram account, which shared an image of the globe-like venue lit up to look like an orange — ostensibly referencing both artwork from the band’s Tragic Kingdom album and Stefani’s roots in Orange County, Calif.
No Doubt later confirmed the news with a post of their own, in which the orange peeled away to reveal the band members.
“Remain seated, please. Permanecer sentados, por favor. Welcome to the Vegas skyline,” they captioned the post. No Doubt will play six nights at Sphere, on May 6, 8, 9, 13, 15 and 16. Presale begins Wednesday at 10 a.m. PT, requiring fans sign up on the group’s official website. Remaining tickets will go on sale on Oct. 17, starting at 10 a.m. PT.
A reunion tour has been on fans’ wishlist ever since the band’s electric performance at Coachella last year — their first show together since 2015. No Doubt also performed together in January of this year, taking the stage in Los Angeles for the FireAid fundraiser. That was despite Stefani telling Rolling Stone in 2016 that a reunion was unlikely.
“I don’t know what’s going to happen with No Doubt,” she told the outlet. “I think we’ve grown apart as far as what kind of music we want to make. I was really drained and burned out when we recorded [2012’s Push and Shove]. And I had a lot of guilt: ‘I have to do it.’ That’s not the right setting to make music.”
That studio album was their sixth and final in a catalogue that stretches back to the early ’90s. But in a 2024 interview with NME, Stefani was more hopeful about coming back together with bandmates Tony Kanal, Tom Dumont and Adrian Young.
“I’m sure we’re gonna do something again at some point. It just has to be the right thing that makes sense [with] all of our schedules. It takes so much work to do a No Doubt thing — the rehearsals, everything,” she said. “It’s really hard for me because — I know I keep saying it — but I have three kids. I don’t take that lightly; I don’t want to mess that up.”
No Doubt’s last residency, titled “Seven Night Stand,” took place in Los Angeles in 2012. Meanwhile, the 17,500-seat, $2.3 billion US Sphere itself has seen a host of big names and big shows, including U2, the Backstreet Boys, the Eagles and even an AI-infused version of The Wizard of Oz.
But despite the glitz and glamour, the venue has yet to host a woman-fronted musical act. Over the summer, rumours began to grow of either Beyoncé or Taylor Swift breaking the drought, though organizers said that wasn’t in the cards.
“Not in discussions with either one,” James Dolan, CEO of Sphere Entertainment told The Associated Press. “We have quite a long list of artists who want to play the Sphere, and it’s just not in their plans.”
After the reporter suggested they could appear down the line, Dolan had a different suggestion.
“Or we’ll build another Sphere for them to play in,” he joked.
