Recent Green Day News: Green Day 's 'American Idiot' is loud, aggressive and irresistible - Fri, 10 Feb 2012 Green Day 's rock opera "American Idiot" roars into Chicago. The galvanizing punk rock musical adapted from Green Day 's hit 2004 album delivers to the audience a metaphoric slap upside the head in the guise of a ringing guitar and a defiant yell. A vivid, aggressive portrait of disaffected youth, "American Idiot" is a rousing assault -- a blast from the Clash with a side of The Ramones. 'American Idiot' is a loud, hard, Green Day lament - Wed, 08 Feb 2012 THEATER REVIEW: "American Idiot" at the Oriental Theatre ★★★½ THEATER REVIEW: "American Idiot" at the Oriental Theatre ★★★½ ... For all their Berkeley punk-rock bona fides - unassailable and enough to send a certain kind of ill-prepared theatergoer headed for an early exit - Green Day songs are actually filled with hope and longing. Green Day's Musical Accepting Art Submissions - Thu, 09 Feb 2012 Green Day's 'American Idiot' is coming to the Peabody Opera House March 2-4. Some St. Louisians with an eye for art can have their creations featured on stage. The show's Tony Award winning set designer Christine Jones will pick the top three submissions and place them center stage on the back wall of the set. Green Day concert spectacle overwhelms 'American Idiot' story - Wed, 08 Feb 2012 Broadway has suffered from arena envy ever since it was thumped on the head by the British invasion a good half century ago. It still hasn't recovered. And so what we've gotten over the decades has been an endless series of increasingly amped-up spectacles (some more interesting and artful than others) in which everybody assumes a full-frontal, super-hyped, sex-drugs-and-rock and roll, in-your ...
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