Lady Gaga announces three more months of "Monster Ball"

(AFP PHOTO/Leon Neal)

Lady Gaga will bring her Monster Ball tour back to North America following her current European tour dates, announced Live Nation on March 15. The 2010 North American leg of The Monster Ball Tour will begin on June 28 in Montreal and will include shows in 31 arenas through September 19.

The tour's second North American leg will apparently build on the first, which the artist has described as "the first-ever pop-electro opera." In a February interview with KIIS-FM's Ryan Seacrest, Lady Gaga promised of the updated show: "It's still called Monster Ball, but it's more of a musical and less of a concert. It has a New York theme, it's a story, and the story is that me and my friends are in New York and we're going to the Monster Ball, and we get lost."

Tickets for some of the new Monster Ball dates - including those in New York, Vancouver, Toronto, San Jose, Los Angeles, and Boston - go on sale March 19 or shortly thereafter at LiveNation.com. Virgin Mobile customers will have access to presale tickets beginning Tuesday, March 16 at 10:00am local time.

Tour dates:

June 28 Montreal, QC - Bell Centre (On sale TBA)

July
1: Boston, MA -TD Garden (On sale March 22)
4: Atlantic City, NJ - Boardwalk Hall
6: New York, NY -Madison Square Garden (On sale March 19)
11: Toronto, ON - Air Canada Centre (On sale March 19)
14: Cleveland, OH - Quicken Loans Arena
15: Indianapolis, IN - Conseco Fieldhouse
17: St. Louis, MO - Scottrade Center
20: Oklahoma City, OK - Ford Center
22: Dallas, TX -  American Airlines Center
25: Houston, TX - Toyota Center
28: Denver, CO - Pepsi Center
31: Phoenix, AZ - US Airways Center

August
3: Kansas City, MO -Sprint Center
11: Los Angeles, CA - Staples Center (On sale March 20)
13: Las Vegas, NV - MGM Grand
16: San Jose, CA - HP Pavilion (On sale March 19)
19: Portland, OR - Rose Garden
21: Tacoma, WA - Tacoma Dome
23: Vancouver, BC - General Motors Place (On sale March 19)
26: Edmonton, AB - Rexall Place
30: St. Paul, MN - Xcel Energy Center

September
1: Milwaukee, WI - Bradley Center
4: Detroit, MI - The Palace Of Auburn Hills
5: Pittsburgh, PA - Consol Energy Center
7: Washington, DC - Verizon Center
8: Charlottesville, VA - John Paul Jones Arena
14: Philadelphia, PA - Wachovia Center
16: Hartford, CT - XL Center
18: Charlotte, NC - Time Warner Cable Arena
19: Raleigh, NC - RBC Center

Lady Gaga is touring in support of her album The Fame Monster, which was released in November 2009. The album is the follow-up to 2008's Grammy Award-winning The Fame; together, the two have sold 10 million copies worldwide.

Additional cities and venues are still to be announced. For updated tour and ticket information, visit www.ladygaga.com.