Sam Smith Will Reopen San Francisco’s Castro Theater With Eight Show Residency Next Year

San Francisco’s legendary Castro Theater is yet reopening successful 2026 aft an extended remodel, and the venue is recruiting Sam Smith to footwear disconnected their caller era.

On Tuesday (Sept. 30), Smith and Another Planet Entertainment announced the singer’s upcoming 8 amusement residency astatine the Castro. Titled “To Be Free: San Francisco,” the caller acceptable of dates for Smith volition footwear disconnected connected Feb. 10 astatine the iconic venue, with the residency wrapping connected Feb. 21. Tickets for the upcoming shows spell connected merchantability Oct. 7 connected Smith’s website.

“I LOVE San Francisco and The Castro particularly has been truthful cardinal to the Queer assemblage present implicit the years,” Smith wrote successful a connection shared alongside the news. “These shows volition besides observe the authoritative reopening, truthful it’s genuinely an honour to go portion of this iconic venue’s history.”

To observe the news, Smith besides shared an acoustic screen of Bill Withers’ 1971 deed opus “Ain’t No Sunshine,” on with an accompanying video filmed astatine the Castro and its surrounding neighborhood. The clip ends with Smith starring a assemblage of onlookers to the theater, wherever they measurement wrong and statesman giving retired tickets to their caller show.

The caller acceptable of shows comes connected the heels of Smith’s forthcoming New York residency, which volition spot the vocalist taking implicit Brooklyn’s Warsaw for a whopping 24 dates opening connected Wednesday, Oct. 8 and lasting done to Dec. 13. Both of the caller residencies are named aft Smith’s latest opus “To Be Free,” which saw them instrumentality to their signature big modern sound.

Check retired the afloat database of dates to Smith’s To Be Free: San Francisco residency and ticker their screen of Bill Withers’ “Ain’t No Sunshine” below: