Go Gaga for this Lady

FIVE-time Grammy Award winner Lady Gaga is set to make a return to the stage, with her Born This Way Ball tour.

Gaga will perform songs from her latest album Born This Way, as well as music from both The Fame and The Fame Monster.

The Born This Way Ball, produced globally by Live Nation, will begin on April 27 in Seoul, South Korea and will travel the globe, including cities that Gaga has never played.

Lady Gaga's last tour - The Monster Ball - captivated audiences around the globe, receiving rave reviews in every city.

The Sun called it "the best live show you will see this year" and the Pollstar Concert Industry Awards named it the Major Tour of the Year.

"The Haus of Gaga and I have worked for months conceiving a spectacular stage," said Mother Monster.

"The Born This Way Ball is an electro-metal pop-opera; the tale of the beginning, the genesis of the Kingdom of Fame.

"How we were birthed and how we will die celebrating."

The Born This Way Ball will be Lady Gaga's first tour since the release of her album Born This Way, which has sold nearly six million copies worldwide since its release in May last year.

The album is the follow up to back-to-back Grammy Award-winning albums, 2009's The Fame Monster, and 2008's The Fame.

Combined, The Fame and The Fame Monster have sold 15 million albums worldwide, while Lady Gaga's hit singles have combined sales of more than 65 million worldwide.

Gaga was named Forbes' Most Powerful Woman in the World 2011 and was included in the annual "The 2010 Time 100" list of the most influential people in the world.

With more than 2.2 billion combined views of all her videos online, Lady Gaga is one of the biggest living people on Facebook, with more than 47 million 'likes'.

She is number one on Twitter, with nearly 19 million followers.

Lady Gaga is the only artist in the digital era to top the five million sales mark with her first two hits.

Tickets for The Born This Way Ball go on sale for Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Auckland from Friday at 9am sharp, at livenation.com.au.

Tickets to all Australian shows are available through ticketek.com.au 132 849.

Lady Gaga will perform at Brisbane Entertainment Centre on June 13.

Lady Gaga To Reveal Born This Way Tour Stage Design

Mother Monster will post images of the set for her upcoming tour on Twitter.

Mother Monster is readying her next tour, the Born This Way Ball.

Lady Gaga took to Twitter to let her fans know that on Tuesday, she will unleash images of the stage design for the tour, which is set to launch later this year. She added that she was brewing up a number of other tour-related projects and wrote, "putting the set list together!"

Over the last few weeks, Gaga has been tweeting frequently about the upcoming outing, noting that she's been in meetings with her Haus and watching old Monster Ball Tour videos that "made us cry. We love u, can't wait for the next one."

Haus member and BTWproducer Fernando Garibayshared with MTV News in December that the show will be reflective of the 2011 album. "This album was the most personal [because of] the amount of detail that went into this record, the amount of passion [and] emotion from her and the team," he said. "Every song was a story towards the Born This Way theme. We're excited now, putting that into the tour and expressing that on a live performance level.

"You can imagine what happened on the Monster Ball, so use your imagination," he said. "That's what's going to happen, exaggerated." Until Gaga does hit the road, she revealed what she'll be doing come this Sunday. "Looking forward to seeing the Superbowl! The halftime show will be wonderful, I'm sure," she tweeted. 

"An excuse to drink beer+watch boys in tights. #yes."

Madonna is slated to take the stage during the Super Bowl halftime show. She recently made headlines when she called Gaga's song "Born This Way" "reductive," subsequently complimenting her "rawness."

Lady Gaga Sad And Cry In The Last Monster Ball Show

it's her last Monster Ball show ever so of course, she's very sad.. huhu.. :C

Lady Gaga’s good deeds

Heavy-hitters like billionaire businessmen Bill Gates and Warren Buffet often take center stage when talk turns to charitable giving, but a new segment of do-gooders has been grabbing headlines: celebrity philanthropists, or "celanthropists".

While actors Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Sean Penn and Bono are well-known for their causes, the newest star to emerge in a big way is two-time Grammy-winning musician, singer and creative sartorialist Lady Gaga.

Matthew Bishop, author of "Philanthrocapitalism: How Giving Can Save the World," has named Lady Gaga as one to watch on the charitable scene this year. Her causes include the homeless and youth. 

She partnered with Virgin Mobile to offer VIP tickets to her Monster Ball concert for those who volunteer time to those causes, raising $80,000. She has also raised $500,000 for victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

Bishop wrote on his blog that he expects her to step up her charitable efforts this year, supporting causes that are dear to her fans' hearts. That's a smart move. 

Putting her star power behind the charities that people with fewer financial resources are passionate about means that she marshals large groups around specific causes, adding up to more bang for the buck.

Bishop's blog names actor Ben Affleck as another one to watch in the coming year and predicts that actor Ashton Kutcher might step up his philanthropy as a means to recover from negative publicity around the breakup of his marriage to Demi Moore. 

He also predicts that social media will become a bigger player in philanthropy, giving both the celebrities and the charities welcome and unwelcome publicity.

What do you think about celebrities putting their star power to work in philanthropy?

Lady Gaga is planning to release a new album this year.

The 'Born This Way' hitmaker is hoping to keep her cycle of touring and recording going and is planning to follow up last year's 'Born This Way' with another album in 2012.

She told TheInsider.com: "I just want to keep going. I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed. I just want to keep writing music. I'm looking forward to putting out another album and going on tour.

"I feel very blessed to be an artist who gets to make a living doing from what I love."

Gaga also told how she sees each of her records as like her own children.

When asked if she wanted to become a mother, she replied: " Someday - long, long day from now. My next baby will be my new record."

Gaga released 'Born This Way' in May last year and staged The Monster Ball tour between November 2009 and May 2011, and since that wrapped is thought to have been working on new material.