Oprah Winfrey will stage a new immersive event at the Las Vegas Sphere next spring, bringing a high-profile, multi-disciplinary production to a venue best known for blockbuster concert residencies. The announcement — with presale windows opening this month and general tickets on sale Sept. 25 — underlines the Sphere’s shift toward experience-driven, long-form programming.
The show, titled Oprah Winfrey’s AHA, is scheduled for April 2–4, 2027 and is described as a roughly two-hour live event that combines onstage conversation with performances and original visual work designed to create moments of discovery and connection.
What to expect
Winfrey conceived the project after attending a Sphere residency and seeing the venue’s potential for immersive storytelling. Rather than a conventional talk or concert, the production blends spoken word, music and large-scale visuals to produce an integrated live experience.
- Dates: April 2–4, 2027
- Ticket prices: starting at $145
- Presale: sign-up available at AHAlive.com; official presale through Vibee begins Sept. 15 (10 a.m. PT)
- General sale: Sept. 25, 10 a.m. PT
- Venue: Sphere, Las Vegas — famous for its wraparound LED surface and spatial audio
The live lineup includes artists across genres: seven-time Grammy winner Jacob Collier, poet and novelist Ocean Vuong, musician Ajeet and gospel singer Wintley Phipps. Producers describe the program as a sequence of short, interconnected pieces intended to move an audience through varied emotional and intellectual beats.
Creative and production team
The project brings together established figures from music, theatre and immersive production. Composer Max Richter will contribute original music and musical direction alongside Jason White and Jon Hopkins. Writing and creative input come from Pulitzer-level and award-winning writers and artists, with theatrical staging led by director Ethan Tobman and executive production from Baz Halpin’s Silent House Group.
Executive producers on the project include Winfrey herself and a team drawn from publishing, live entertainment and tech: Jennifer Rudolph Walsh, Tara McNally Montgomery, Ben Winston, Andrew Maxwell Mangino and Pinterest co-founder Evan Sharp.
Why this matters now
The Sphere has positioned itself as more than a concert hall; its large-format screen and immersive audio allow for programming that reads like destination theatre. Winfrey’s residency tests that model with a celebrity-led event that is content-rich and adaptable — an approach that could be replicated at other Spheres being built abroad.
Two additional Sphere venues are planned — one in Abu Dhabi and another near Washington, D.C. If Oprah’s run proves successful, similar experiential residencies and original productions could multiply across the chain, reshaping how major talent stages long-form events.
Context: Sphere’s evolving slate
Since opening, the Sphere has anchored its schedule with major concert residencies. It has also developed original daytime and nighttime programming: a documentary from Darren Aronofsky, a large-scale interpretation of The Wizard of Oz and other immersive adaptations. A production of The Rocky Horror Picture Show is slated to arrive next year.
Those experiments suggest the venue is aiming for continuous visitor appeal — programming that fills gaps between headline concerts and gives audiences reasons to return beyond a single artist’s show.
Watch the first-look promo for Oprah Winfrey’s AHA, released alongside the announcement, for a sense of the show’s aesthetic and scope.
Reporting contributed by Alex Weprin.
