The What Now? Tour[1] was a comedy tour by American comedian Kevin Hart. The tour began in San Antonio at the AT&T Center on April 9, 2015, and concluded on August 7, 2016, in Columbus at the Columbus Civic Center.

What Now? Tour
Tour by Kevin Hart
Start dateApril 9, 2015 (2015-04-09)
End dateAugust 27, 2016 (2016-08-27)
Legs5
No. of shows
  • 143 in North America
  • 16 in Europe
  • 7 in Australasia
  • 3 in Africa
  • 169 in total
Attendance216,655
Box office$16 M

Background and development

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Billboard's Ray Waddel wrote on March 6, 2015, that the What Now? Tour was on track for the biggest comedy tour of all time. Hart toured a total of 168 shows across North America, Europe, Asia, Oceania, and Africa.[2] Some cities like Buffalo, Orlando, and Jacksonville, Baltimore, Miami, and Tampa, Hart held two shows on the same day.

Tour dates

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List of shows, showing date, city, country, venue, tickets sold, number of available tickets and amount of gross revenue
Date City Country Venue Number of shows
North America[1][3]
April 9, 2015 San Antonio United States AT&T Center 1
April 10, 2015 North Little Rock Verizon Arena 1
April 11, 2015 Oklahoma City Chesapeake Energy Arena 1
April 17, 2015 Buffalo First Niagara Center 2
April 18, 2015 Uncasville Mohegan Sun Arena 1
April 19, 2015 Nashville Bridgestone Arena 2
April 20, 2015 Knoxville Thompson–Boling Arena 1
April 21, 2015 Greensboro Greensboro Coliseum 1
April 22, 2015 North Charleston North Charleston Coliseum 1
April 24, 2015 Orlando Amway Center 2
April 25, 2015 Jacksonville Jacksonville Arena 2
April 26, 2015 Birmingham Legacy Arena 1
April 28, 2015 Worcester DCU Center 1
April 29, 2015 Amherst William D. Mullins Memorial Center 1
April 30, 2015 Manchester Verizon Wireless Arena 1
May 1, 2015 Raleigh PNC Arena 1
May 2, 2015 Charlotte Time Warner Cable Arena 1
May 3, 2015 Richmond Richmond Coliseum 1
May 8, 2015 Tampa Amalie Arena 2
May 9, 2015 Miami American Airlines Arena 2
May 10, 2015 1
May 15, 2015 Minneapolis Target Center 1
May 16, 2015 Auburn Hills The Palace of Auburn Hills 2
May 17, 2015 Grand Rapids Van Andel Arena 1
May 23, 2015 Las Vegas Mandalay Bay Events Center 1
May 24, 2015 1
June 5, 2015 Boston TD Garden 1
June 6, 2015 Baltimore Royal Farms Arena 2
June 7, 2015 Boston TD Garden 2
June 12, 2015 Atlanta Philips Arena 2
June 13, 2015 1
June 14, 2015 Augusta James Brown Arena 1
June 19, 2015 Indianapolis Bankers Life Fieldhouse 1
June 20, 2015 Cincinnati U.S. Bank Arena 1
June 21, 2015 Cleveland Quicken Loans Arena 2
June 25, 2015 Los Angeles Staples Center 1
July 2, 2015 New Orleans Mercedes-Benz Superdome 1
July 3, 2015 Memphis FedExForum 1
July 7, 2015 New York City Madison Square Garden 1
July 8, 2015 2
July 9, 2015 Brooklyn Barclays Center 2
July 10, 2015 Bridgeport Webster Bank Arena 1
July 11, 2015 Newark Prudential Center 2
July 16, 2015 San Jose SAP Center 1
July 17, 2015 Sacramento Sleep Train Arena 2
July 18, 2015 Oakland Oracle Arena 2
July 24, 2015 Montreal Canada Bell Centre 1
July 30, 2015 Chicago United States United Center 2
July 31, 2015 1
August 1, 2015 Toronto Canada Air Canada Centre 2
August 2, 2015 1
August 6, 2015 Washington, D.C. United States Verizon Center 1
August 7, 2015 1
August 14, 2015 Dallas American Airlines Center 1
August 15, 2015 Houston Toyota Center 2
August 16, 2015 1
August 20, 2015 Louisville KFC Yum! Center 1
August 21, 2015 St. Louis Scottrade Center 1
August 22, 2015 Kansas City Sprint Center 2
August 26, 2015 Syracuse Oncenter War Memorial Arena 2
August 27, 2015 Albany Times Union Center 1
August 28, 2015 Wantagh Nikon at Jones Beach Theater 1
August 30, 2015[a] Philadelphia Lincoln Financial Field 1
September 5, 2015 Las Vegas The Chelsea 2
September 7, 2015 Denver Pepsi Center 1
September 8, 2015 West Valley City Maverik Center 1
September 9, 2015 Spokane McCarthey Athletic Center 1
September 10, 2015 Vancouver Canada Rogers Arena 1
September 11, 2015 Portland United States Moda Center 1
September 12, 2015 Seattle KeyArena 2
September 17, 2015 Anaheim Honda Center 1
September 18, 2015 Inglewood The Forum 1
September 19, 2015 San Diego Viejas Arena 1
October 2, 2015 Columbia Mizzou Arena 1
October 3, 2015 Iowa City Carver–Hawkeye Arena 1
October 4, 2015 Ames Hilton Coliseum 1
October 6, 2015 Madison Kohl Center 1
October 7, 2015 Green Bay Resch Center 1
October 8, 2015 Windsor Canada The Colosseum
at Caesars Windsor
1
October 9, 2015 Lexington United States Rupp Arena 1
October 10, 2015 Columbus Nationwide Arena 1
October 11, 2015 Dayton Nutter Center 1
October 12, 2015 Port Chester Capitol Theatre 2
October 13, 2015 Poughkeepsie Mid-Hudson Civic Center 1
October 14, 2015 Halifax Canada Scotiabank Centre 1
October 15, 2015 1
October 16, 2015 Ottawa Canadian Tire Centre 1
October 17, 2015 Providence United States Dunkin' Donuts Center 1
October 18, 2015 New Brunswick State Theatre 2
October 19, 2015 Huntington Paramount Theatre 2
October 27, 2015 Anchorage Sullivan Arena 1
October 28, 2015 Fresno Save Mart Center 1
October 29, 2015 Bakersfield Rabobank Arena 1
October 30, 2015 Reno Reno Events Center 1
November 17, 2015 Saskatoon Canada SaskTel Centre 1
November 18, 2015 Regina Brandt Centre 1
November 19, 2015 Winnipeg MTS Centre 1
November 20, 2015 Fargo United States Fargodome 1
November 21, 2015 Boise Taco Bell Arena 1
November 22, 2015 Edmonton Canada Rexall Place 1
November 23, 2015 Calgary Scotiabank Saddledome 1
November 24, 2015 East Lansing United States Breslin Student Events Center 1
December 26, 2015 Hollywood Hard Rock Live 1
December 27, 2015 Thackerville WinStar Global Event Center 1
December 29, 2015 Allentown PPL Center 1
December 30, 2015 Wilkes-Barre Mohegan Sun Arena
at Casey Plaza
1
December 31, 2015 Atlantic City Boardwalk Hall 1
January 1, 2016 Hershey Giant Center 1
Europe[1]
January 15, 2016 Birmingham England Barclaycard Arena 1
January 16, 2016 Amsterdam Netherlands Ziggo Dome 1
January 17, 2016 London England The O2 Arena 1
January 20, 2016 Manchester Manchester Arena 1
January 22, 2016 Dublin Ireland 3Arena 2
January 23, 2016 London England Wembley Arena 2
January 24, 2016 The O2 Arena 1
January 25, 2016 Oslo Norway Oslo Spektrum 2
January 26, 2016 Stockholm Sweden Ericsson Globe 2
January 27, 2016 Berlin Germany Mercedes-Benz Arena 1
January 28, 2016 Helsinki Finland Hartwall Arena 1
January 29, 2016 Malmö Sweden Malmö Arena 1
January 30, 2016 Amsterdam Netherlands Ziggo Dome 1
January 31, 2016 Antwerp Belgium Sportpaleis 1
Australasia[1]
February 2, 2016 Singapore Suntec Singapore Convention
and Exhibition Centre
1
February 3, 2016 Perth Australia Perth Arena 1
February 4, 2016 Melbourne Rod Laver Arena 1
February 5, 2016 1
February 6, 2016 Brisbane Brisbane Entertainment Centre 1
February 7, 2016 Sydney Allphones Arena 1
February 8, 2016 1
Africa[1]
March 26, 2016 Cape Town South Africa GrandWest Arena 1
March 28, 2016 Durban Durban ICC Arena 1
March 30, 2016 Johannesburg Ticketpro Dome 1
North America[1]
July 31, 2016 Concord United States Concord Pavilion 1
August 1, 2016 Saratoga Mountain Winery 1
August 2, 2016 Stockton Stockton Arena 1
August 3, 2016 Paso Robles Vina Robles Amphitheatre 1
August 4, 2016 Corpus Christi American Bank Center 1
August 5, 2016 Biloxi Mississippi Coast Coliseum 1
August 6, 2016 Rogers Walmart Arkansas Music Pavilion 1
August 7, 2016 Columbus Columbus Civic Center 1
Total 168

Box office score data

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Venue City Tickets sold / available Gross revenue
Mohegan Sun Arena Uncasville 7,256 / 7,256 (100%) $694,364
Bridgestone Arena Nashville 26,999 / 26,999 (100%) $1,546,825
Amway Center Orlando 23,044 / 24,208 (95%) $1,719,382
Amalie Arena Tampa 22,853 / 23,707 (96%) $1,688,822
Staples Center Los Angeles 14,031 / 15,161 (92%) $1,418,355
Barclays Center Brooklyn 25,768 / 25,768 (100%) $2,186,425
Air Canada Centre Toronto 40,437 / 40,437 (100%) $2,692,200
Capitol One Center Washington, D.C. 26,218 / 26,218 (100%) $2,350,218
Times Union Center Albany 10,191 / 10,492 (97%) $561,854
The Chelsea Las Vegas 3,719 / 5,020 (74%) $325,805
Maverik Center West Valley City 6,633 / 10,078 (65%) $483,411
Save Mart Center Fresno 9,506 / 10,647 (89%) $602,912
Total 216,655 / 225,991 (95%) $16,270,573

Feature film

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A film about the tour, entitled Kevin Hart: What Now?, was released on October 14, 2016.

Notes

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f "Tour Dates". whatnowtour.com. Retrieved September 28, 2016.
  2. ^ Waddell, Ray (March 6, 2015). "Kevin Hart Is On Track for the Biggest Comedy Tour of All Time". Billboard. Retrieved September 28, 2016.
  3. ^ Box score: