May 21, 2025
CAPA WELCOMES PROGRESSIVE MUSIC ICONS DREAM THEATER ON PARASOMNIA 2025 TOUR
On the heels of their successful 2025 40th Anniversary sold-out North American tour, GRAMMY®-winning, progressive music titans Dream Theater are announcing another run of dates in the United States. The upcoming tour will be An Evening With Dream Theater that will celebrate the band’s recent chart-topping 16th studio album, Parasomnia.
CAPA welcomes Dream Theater to the Palace Theatre (34 W. Broad St.) on Saturday, October 18, at 8 pm. Tickets, which start at $69.50, go on sale at 10 am Friday, May 23, and may be purchased at the CAPA Ticket Center at the Ohio Theatre (39 E. State St.), online at www.capa.com, and by phone at (614) 469-0939.
In one respect, Dream Theater have returned to their roots as James LaBrie [vocals], John Petrucci [guitar], John Myung [bass], and Jordan Rudess [keyboards] once again unite with Mike Portnoy [drums] during the 40th anniversary of their formation. At the same time, these five old friends enter a bold new era fueled by some of the most focused, formidable, and fiery music of their career. In essence, they’re celebrating how far they’ve come by forging ahead together once more. They’re also harnessing the memories of the past and the promise of the future in order to make the most of the present.
Ultimately, the GRAMMY® Award-winning group’s 16th full-length album, Parasomnia [Inside Out Music/Sony Music], represents both where they came from and where they’re going as not only bandmates, but as brothers.
From the opening track “In the Arms of Morpheus” to the closer of “The Shadow Man Incident,” Dream Theater returned with a collection of songs that showcased what has earned the band a loyal following for four decades. Parasomnia debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top Hard Rock Albums, the Hard Music Albums and Current Rock Albums chart selling over 18,000 combined units the first week. It also debuted at #41 on the Billboard 200 which is notable for a progressive metal band and shows the bands devout fanbase.
Parasomnia is a term for disruptive, sleep-related disturbances including sleepwalking, sleep paralysis, and night terrors.
Beyond selling millions of records worldwide and gathering a billion-plus streams, Dream Theater have quietly evolved into progressive metal trailblazers over the course of an unprecedented journey earmarked by one unforgettable milestone after another. The career-launching Images & Words graced Rolling Stone’s “100 Greatest Metal Albums of All-Time,” while Awake claimed #1 on Guitar World’s “Superunknown: 50 Iconic Albums That Defined 1994.” In addition to emerging as Classic Rock’s “15thGreatest Concept Album,” Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory toppled a fan-voted Rolling Stone poll as the “Number One All-Time Progressive Rock Album.” The band garnered a GRAMMY® Award in the category of “Best Metal Performance” for “The Alien” from 2021’s A View from the Top of the World.
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