Entertainment 24 September 2026

Patti Smith is coming back to Lisbon's Coliseu in 2027, and tickets start at 45 euros

The singer plays the Coliseu dos Recreios on 15 June 2027, eleven years after her last show there. Tickets run from 45 to 65 euros, on general sale from 25 September.

Patti Smith is back in Lisbon on 15 June 2027, playing the Coliseu dos Recreios with her band. Tickets run from 45 euros (standing stalls, balcony and gallery) to 65 euros (front first-tier box), on general sale from Friday 25 September at 9am, with a 24-hour presale for the promoter’s newsletter subscribers starting the day before. Doors at 8pm, show at 9pm.

More than five decades into a career that runs through rock, punk and poetry, Smith won the 2026 Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts. The promoter is billing the night as a “particularly symbolic” moment, and a show that “continues to challenge the boundaries between music, literature and poetry.”

Eleven years on, same room

The announcement landed eleven years to the day after her last Coliseu show, on 21 September 2015. She has kept coming back to Portugal since, most recently at the Jardins do Marquês festival in Oeiras in 2025.

The Coliseu is still Lisbon’s go-to room for rock veterans, too: only this month it hosted Ronnie Wood on a night built around sixty years of his career. Prices, the seating plan and the official sales points (BOL, Agência ABEP, El Corte Inglés, FNAC and Worten) are on the concert page at Everything Is New.

By Lucy Bennett

Photo: Elekes Andor / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Entertainment 29 September 2026

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Entertainment 25 September 2026

Andrew Garfield leads a medieval uprising (that already stumbled in the US)

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Entertainment 22 September 2026

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Entertainment 20 September 2026

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A model in a silver-patterned Miguel Vieira suit, photographed beside a concrete breakwater under heavy cloud

Entertainment 18 September 2026

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Entertainment 16 September 2026

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Jean Smart on stage at the 78th Emmy Awards, statuette in hand, with EMMYS in gold letters behind her

Entertainment 15 September 2026

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Entertainment 14 September 2026

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Entertainment 13 September 2026

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Zaineen, in bridal dress and gold jewellery, beside another woman in a scene from Rubaiyat Hossain's The Difficult Bride

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The gold Emmy statuette, a winged woman holding an atom, beside the word EMMYS on a dark blue background streaked with coloured light

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The cast of Santo António – O Casamenteiro de Lisboa gathered around the saint's statue, red carnations in hand

Entertainment 10 September 2026

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