David Byrne News

David Byrne's American Utopia will return to the live stage on Broadway in the fall of 2021 at a theatre to be announced. Performances will begin on Friday, September 17, 2021.

Celebrating their tenth year of collaboration, on Wednesday, October 28, 2020 at 8pm ET, Bang on a Can and The Noguchi Museum present excerpts from Duet Behavior 2020 by Meredith Monk and John Hollenbeck, a first-time performance of Monk's music as it has never been experienced.

The Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust will host a live concert-featuring Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars and actor and Yiddish-singer Eleanor Reissa and percussionist Deep Singh-from Edmond J. Safra Hall on Sunday, October 25 at 7 p.m.

Billy Porter hosted this Sunday's ALCU Bill of Rights Gala, which consisted of an hour-long program celebrating the work of the ACLU. The event also served as a call to vote.

Today, the second edition of Good Music to Avert the Collapse of American Democracy, a compilation made up entirely of previously unreleased recordings from some of the most important names in music today, has been announced. The collection will be available for only 24 hours, exclusively via Bandcamp, starting at 12:01am this Friday, October 2.

In an effort to lay out a larger welcome mat to artists of many disciplines, BAM is offering residencies to seven artists/artistic teams to support the development of their work at a challenging time.

The filmed version of the critically acclaimed Broadway show, DAVID BYRNEa??S AMERICAN UTOPIA debuts SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17 (8:00-9:45 p.m. ET/PT).

Jealous of the Birds – the musical project of Northern Ireland-based singer-songwriter Naomi Hamilton – announce  Peninsula: A Short Film.

While Broadway remains shut down, BroadwayWorld is keeping up with your favorite stars and giving you a peek at what they have been up to! Check out yesterday's highlights from some of your favorites, including Liz Callaway, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Neil Patrick Harris, and more!

David Byrne shares his hopes for the return of Broadway, talks about collaborating with Spike Lee to film his Broadway show David Byrne's American Utopia and his project, We Are Not Divided.

Today Reasons to be Cheerful, the solutions-based online magazine founded by David Byrne, has announced We Are Not Divided, a six-week collaborative journalistic exploration of our capacity to overcome division. 

Wesleyan Universitya??'s a??Theater Departmenta?? presents a??'Re-Evaluating the Ground on Which We(s) Stand(s): An Evening of August Wilson with Broadway's Crystal Dickinson and Brandon Dirden,' on a??Friday, September 25, 2020 at 4:30pm on Zoom. Registration is required for access to this free virtual event.

This October, National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (Folksbiene)-led by Zalmen Mlotek, Artistic Director, and Dominick Balletta, Executive Director-presents Folksbiene! LIVE: 'Welcome to Our Suke/Sukkah', a four-day festival of family-friendly performances during Chol Hamoed (the intermediary days of Sukkos) from October 5th to 8th.

The 58th New York Film Festival, presented by Film at Lincoln Center, announces the addition of a new festival venuea?"the Bronx Drive-In at the Bronx Zoo.

American Utopia is coming! On October 17, HBO will release the filmed version of the acclaimed Broadway show 'David Byrne's American Utopia,' directed by Academy Award winning director Spike Lee. The film just premiered at TIFF and the critics have spoken ...

Stick Figure Entertainment, in association with American Masters Pictures, is proud to announce Twyla Moves (w.t.), a feature documentary

Sonos Radio drops the second episode of David Byrne’s new monthly show, Here Comes Everybody, today.

Over the last three decades, the celebrated East Village-based Canadian poet/performer Adeena Karasick and Grammy Award-winning composer/trumpeter Frank London have each transformed the worlds of poetry and music with work that is sensual and political, steeped in Jewish mysticism, exploding notions of high and low culture.

American Utopia is coming! On October 17, HBO will release the filmed version of the acclaimed Broadway show 'David Byrne's American Utopia,' directed by Academy Award winning director Spike Lee. 

The Paley Center for Media today announced a new selection to its Paley Front Row series: Coachella: 20 Years in the Desert.