At The Theatre of Living Arts in Philadelphia last December, Alaska Thunderfuck performed You Raise Me Up — yes, that one, the Josh Groban standard — sandwiched between a No Good Deed / Abracadabra mash-up and a medley that somehow contained both Dominick the Italian Christmas Donkey and One Day More from Les Misérables. If you are trying to locate the logic, you are already missing the point. Alaska doesn't traffic in logic. She traffics in chaos with a vocabulary, and that distinction matters enormously.
Now, with The Revolution Tour kicking off in March 2027, the Erie, Pennsylvania native — winner of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 2 and one of the most restlessly creative figures to come out of that world — is taking that particular brand of controlled derangement back on the road across the eastern United States and beyond.
What the Recent Shows Actually Revealed
The past year of live dates has been genuinely instructive. At Baltimore Soundstage on November 1st, 2025, Alaska leaned hard into a Halloween concept — Dance in the Dark, Living Dead Girl, a David Bowie interlude climaxing in Life on Mars? — but threaded through it was Your Makeup Is Terrible, her own sharp-tongued original that kept the whole thing grounded in her specific voice rather than drifting into pure tribute-act territory. The Charlotte Fillmore date the night before ran a similar structure: horror-adjacent covers surrounding originals, with The Fate of Ophelia anchoring the emotional centre.
Then Philadelphia arrived and blew the template apart entirely. A Christmas show that opened with Santa Baby and included Crucify — Tori Amos, for the uninitiated — before pivoting into a medley containing Sissy That Walk and A Whole New World in the same breath. It sounds exhausting on paper. By all accounts it was exhilarating in practice. The through-line is always Alaska herself: the commitment to the bit, whatever the bit happens to be that evening.
She played 'You Raise Me Up' between a Halloween mash-up and a Copacabana outro. The Revolution Tour promises more of the same beautiful disorder.
The Brunette Album and the Question of Where She's Headed
The Revolution Tour follows The Brunette Album, released in 2026 — her most recent full-length and the latest chapter in a catalogue that now stretches to 25 releases, including Red 4 Filth (2022) and Vagina (2019). What's notable is the pace. For an artist operating primarily within the drag and queer pop ecosystem, Alaska has maintained a release cadence that most indie acts would envy, and each record has pulled in a slightly different direction stylistically. Whether The Revolution Tour setlists lean into The Brunette Album material or continue the grab-bag approach her recent shows have favoured will be one of the genuine curiosities of the run.
Given that the Philadelphia Christmas show and the Baltimore Halloween set both built heavily around existing fan touchstones — Read U Wrote U closed both, almost like a law — it's reasonable to expect new material woven in rather than foregrounded. Alaska tends to earn her new songs by surrounding them with the stuff that already has the room's trust.
The Geography of the Tour Makes a Quiet Argument
Look at the routing and something becomes clear: this is a tour built around density over spectacle. Rather than a handful of major-market arena stops, The Revolution Tour threads through Providence, New Haven, Asbury Park, Wilmington, Charlottesville, McKees Rocks — towns that larger pop tours skip on the way between New York and Charlotte. There's a deliberate intimacy being chosen here. The Theatre of Living Arts in Philly, Cowboys Stampede Tent in Calgary this past July — these aren't venues you book if you're chasing scale. They're venues you book if you want the room close enough to feel.
For a performer whose entire live proposition depends on that performer-audience feedback loop — the call and response, the crowd reading the medley shifts, the communal absurdity of everyone agreeing to watch someone segue from Thriller to Horses — that choice of room size isn't incidental. It's the whole strategy.
First Dates, First Chances
The run opens Friday, 5 March 2027 in Portland, with the following nights pulling through New England and down the Northeast corridor before pushing south through the mid-Atlantic. If past shows are anything to go by, the early dates will be where the setlist is still finding its shape — which, perversely, often makes them the most interesting nights to catch.
- →Fri 5 March 2027 — Portland countdown
- →Sat 6 March 2027 — Concord countdown
- →Sun 7 March 2027 — South Burlington countdown
- →Mon 8 March 2027 — Boston countdown
- →Wed 10 March 2027 — Providence countdown
- →Thu 11 March 2027 — New Haven countdown
- →Fri 12 March 2027 — New York countdown
- →Sat 13 March 2027 — Asbury Park countdown
- →Sun 14 March 2027 — Wilmington countdown
- →Tue 16 March 2027 — McKees Rocks countdown
Portland tickets for the opening night are already moving. Get your tickets before the routing logic — such as it is — makes the decision for you.