Hi, and welcome to the forum!
I can understand how frustrating this must be. Most of us have been there.

I don't see anything in the owner's manual that would indicate that you could dim the front panel straight from the remote control, but I'd take Scott's suggestion and push the "DISPLAY" button on the remote to see what happens. Before doing that, toggle the switch on the right side of the remote to "AMP".
The manual does say that the display will automatically dim if you set it to Pure Direct mode, but I don't think it would shut it off. Just to be sure, try selecting a mode other than Pure Direct to see if the display comes back on.
It might be that the little light that illuminates the display has burned out, but let's follow Scott's lead and check the easy stuff first.