Paradise Theatre is the tenth studio album by American rock band Styx, released on January 16, 1981, by A&M Records.

[7] (Dennis DeYoung, who envisioned and developed the entire concept, confirmed this in an episode of In the Studio with Redbeard about the making of the album.

"[10] Newsday critic Wayne Robins stated that the songs "deal with people out of sync with themselves and their environment.

"[10] For example, "Too Much Time on My Hands" is about a man who is unemployed and has given up, he regards "Lonely People" as a "contemporary rewrite of the Beatles' 'Eleanor Rigby,'" and "Nothing Ever Goes as Planned" is about "the inevitability of failure.

Vinyl releases and initial CD pressings of the album had the musical segue between "Half-Penny, Two-Penny" and "A.D. 1958" indexed as the intro to "A.D. 1958".