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Green Day's Rock Opera Hits the Stage

Matt Cantor — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:18:50 CDT

Green Day’s multiplatinum album American Idiot is taking the stage as a 75-minute rock opera that will “challenge the very definitions of punk, theater, and musical,” writes David Downs in the East Bay Express . A 19-member cast will showcase a “ Fight Club -esque story of self-discovery through death and destruction,...

Breakdown Trumps Even Idiot

Kevin Spak — Fri, 15 May 2009 11:59:35 CDT

After Green Day’s multi-platinum American Idiot , anticipation is off the charts for today’s release of 21st Century Breakdown . And it doesn’t disappoint. Here’s what critics are saying: It’s “so masterful and confident it makes Idiot seem like a warm-up,” says Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone. Green Day’s become “the sort...

Rock Opera Humanizes 'Deep Throat'

Sarah Quinn — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:05:34 CDT

Slut or victim? Porn star or feminist? A Los Angeles stage production tackles the contradictions of Linda Boreman—better known as Linda Lovelace, of 1970s hit Deep Throat , the Los Angeles Times reports. The creators of Lovelace: The Rock Opera “wanted to know Linda as a person, beyond the controversy,...