Skillet book a February night at Kent State Tuscarawas' Performing Arts Center

The Christian rock band, fresh off a fall tour marking 20 years of Comatose, plays New Philadelphia on Saturday, February 6, 2027.

For a band that has spent this fall celebrating a 20-year-old album, the next stop is a theatre on a college campus in Tuscarawas County.

Skillet play the Performing Arts Center at Kent State University Tuscarawas in New Philadelphia on Saturday, February 6, 2027, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are sold through the Performing Arts Center. The date was announced Oct. 28, and the hall holds 1,000.

The announcement lands at the tail end of a busy year. This fall Skillet has been on the road with the "Comatose: 20 Years, Still Screaming Tour," a headline run that started Sept. 30 and marks two decades of the album *Comatose*. They teased the tour with a new single, "Scream." Their most recent album, *Revolution*, was their first independent release after 20 years on a major label.

The calendar is already filling up beyond February, too. German promoters have posted European dates for Skillet's "After the Storm" tour next summer, including Nürnberg on July 11 and Dresden, Köln and Frankfurt in early August. That makes a Saturday in New Philadelphia one of a limited number of chances to catch the band in a theatre-sized room in Ohio before they head overseas.

A Saturday in New Philadelphia is one of a limited number of chances to catch the band in a theatre-sized room.

The venue is worth knowing about if you haven't been. The Performing Arts Center sits on the Kent State Tuscarawas campus at 330 University Drive NE and opened in early 2010. It was built on a $17.3 million budget, and Kent State describes it as a professional, international-level Broadway presenting house. It has hosted touring acts across genres, from The Band Perry to Michael W. Smith to Mark Chesnutt. The hall has a mezzanine and a dress-circle balcony, so the sight lines hold up even toward the back.

For Akron–Canton fans, New Philadelphia is a short drive down I-77, and a 7:30 start means you can be home at a reasonable hour. Tickets go through the PAC's own box office, which also takes calls at 330-308-6400.

A band that has spent two decades playing to big crowds, in a 1,000-seat room on a winter Saturday: it's an easy night to put on the calendar now.

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