With the worldwide excitement around the recently completed European tour, GRAMMY®-winning, progressive music titans Dream Theater are announcing their 40th Anniversary Tour 2026 leg for Australia. The tour will be An Evening With Dream Theater and will be the first tour of Australia since drummer Mike Portnoy’s return to the lineup joining vocalist James LaBrie, bassist John Myung, guitarist John Petrucci, and keyboardist Jordan Rudess.
The tour kicks off on on February 10 in Adelaide with stops in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. Dream Theater will be performing classics and fan favorites from their catalogue in what promises to be an unforgettable evening of music.
⏰ KEY DATES & TICKETS
DAL Presale: Tuesday 9 September @ 10AM local time
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General On Sale: Wednesday 10 September @ 10AM local time
“The excitement we have felt from the fans since the first leg of this tour was announced has been overwhelming! Now we get to bring the show to our fans all across the world, and play a bunch of cities that we haven’t been together in for more than a decade. We can’t wait to continue this historic celebration of 40 years together with everyone in Asia and Australia next year. We still have plenty of more exciting Dream Theater news to share in the coming weeks,” explains Dream Theater.
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 “15th Greatest 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.” They shook the charts with three Top 10 debuts on the Billboard 200 and headlined sold out shows everywhere from Radio City Music Hall to Red Rocks Amphitheatre. 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.
📆 TOUR DATES
Tuesday 10 February @ Hindley Street Music Hall, Adelaide 18+
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Thursday 12 February @ Margaret Court Arena, Melbourne Lic/AA
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Saturday 14 February @ ICC Sydney Theatre, Sydney Lic/AA
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Sunday 15 February @ Fortitude Music Hall, Brisbane 18+
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