Dream Theater Isn’t Taking “An Evening with Dream Theater” to Europe

Wah wah wahhhhh folks. If you happen to live in Europe or the UK, then it doesn’t look like you’ll be able to see Dream Theater on their “An Evening with Dream Theater” tour, the one supporting their latest album Parasomnia. They were supposed to head over there next year, but now it seems like that’ll be a no-go.

Their U.S. leg of the tour barely started last month, seeing them not only play the new album in its entirety, but the whole seven-movement long A Change of Seasons for the first time since drummer Mike Portnoy’s been back behind the kit. Yeah, they’re doing it big alright.

Unfortunately, Dream Theater posted this to their socials this morning (Thursday, October 9) with the bummer news:

“ATTENTION all EU/UK DREAM THEATER fans:

We know we promised we’d be back in 2026 with our full ‘Parasomnia’ show, but sadly sometimes plans change… after much discussion, after 2 European legs on our 40th Anniversary Tour in 2024 and 2025 (as well as EU tours the previous two years in 2022 & 2023 as well), we’ve made the hard decision to skip a return to EU/UK in 2026.

“We are currently on the final 3 weeks of our US ‘Parasomnia’/’A Change Of Seasons’ Tour, so there’s still time to come on over to the States to catch this show if you are so inclined… it really is an amazing show! And if we can’t bring it over to you, we at least wanted to give the heads up so you’d have the option of coming to us to catch it.

“We look forward to returning to EU/UK when we begin our next tour cycle in either 2027 or 2028!”

So, there it is. To our Dream Theater-loving readers in Europe/UK, here’s to y’all making it another like two years.