The tour celebrates Wainwright's career, coinciding with the release of his eponymous debut studio album.
During an interview with Scenestr, Wainwright stated this tour was a ramp-up to his forthcoming eighth studio album, his first since 2012.
Adam Grim of The Cavalier Daily said of the concert in Charlottesville: "Never as famous as his talent merited, Wainwright has matured into a compelling mid-career artist, delving into opera composition and, with 'Sword of Damocles', mastering operatic pop.
"[9] Olivia de Zilva from the Adelaide Review said of the concert in Adelaide: "Ending the set with a cover of The Beatles' 'Across the Universe' (a song which launched him into international prominence courtesy of the I Am Sam (2001) soundtrack), Wainwright modestly bows under a spotlight in a simple red jacket better.
To open tonight’s show, he strolls on in a pinstripe suit with ankle swingers and a top hat, like an Edwardian circus master.
Joe Goggins (Manchester Evening News) wrote: "Still, Rufus Wainwright does precisely nothing in anybody’s image but his own and tonight holds fast to that.
When he closes the encore - wearing a lurid bomber jacket not dissimilar to the leather one that Poses describes - he’s doing so in celebratory fashion, with an arms-in-the-air, here’s-to-the-next-twenty sense about him.