David Lynch News

The thrilling style of film director David Lynch meets the heartbreaking pathos of playwright William Inge in John Kuntz's remarkable The Hotel Nepenthe. Four actors inhabit 19 characters who live or work in or around The Hotel Nepenthe, a locale straight out of a film noir from Hollywood's golden era.

From the moment you enter the theater - through a narrow hallway lit an antiseptic white - you are plunged into an immersive and disorienting experience in OUT LOUD's new one-act, CREATION X. The one-hour show, an intense character study of a scientist and 'monster,' is by turns enigmatic, thought-provoking, and viscerally terrifying.

Prolific composer/conductor Matthias Pintscher curates Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra's (LACO) SESSION, an innovative performance experience, in collaboration with Four Larks, on Thursday February 28, 8 pm, at Mack Sennett Studios in Silverlake. Designed to explore classical music's cutting-edge sounds and challenge traditional concert-going expectations, the evening features two works by Pintscher, Study II for Treatise on the Veil, a string trio inspired by painter Cy Twombly's art works, and Uriel, for cello and piano, the third part of his 'Profiles of Light' cycle. Also on the program are three-time Grammy Award-winning soprano Michelle DeYoung and LACO artists performing Ravel's Three Poemes de Stephane Mallarme; Berg's Four pieces for clarinet and piano; Grisey's surreal Stele for two percussionists and Xenakis's Rebonds A, a tour-de-force for solo percussion. SESSION includes a 'hang' with the artists, and premium tickets include parking and one drink as well. Mack Sennett Studios, where artists like Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, Lady Gaga, John Legend, Donna Summer and Jay-Z have performed, is a historic facility that serves as a soundstage, event space and a hub for a variety of cultural producers.

Signal Co. No1, a new music culture podcast label, launched on January 23rd with a 3 min trailer for its debut program, Past Is Prologue, Pixies generating extraordinary attention. A wide breadth of international media coverage—from the U.S., UK and Canada to China, South Africa, South America, Europe and beyond—helped the trailer reach #7 on the Apple Podcast Music Chart within days. Episode 1 is set to debut on June 27th

NEWPORT HARBOR DRAMA DEPARTMENT presents three very special benefit performances for the Robert S. Wentz Theatre at Newport Harbor High School of ED ASNER starring as God in GOD HELP US!, written by Samuel Warren Joseph & Phil Proctor and directed by Mitch Levine and also starring Stewart J. Zully and Pamela Guest. GOD HELP US! will perform for three performances only, Friday, February 22 at 7pm and Saturday, February 23, 2019 at 2pm & 7pm at the Robert S. Wentz Theater, 600 Irvine Ave. in Newport Beach.   

Oscar Isaac is in early negotiations to join the cast of Denis Villeneuve's adaptation of Dune, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

On Wednesday, March 6, 2019 at 7:30pm, Bang on a Can will present the 2019 Bang on a Can People's Commissioning Fund (PCF) concert, one of the most anticipated and reliable launching pads for composers in New York and beyond. The performance is presented as part of Kaufman Music Center's Ecstatic Music Festival at Merkin Hall (Kaufman Music Center, 129 W. 67th St.) and a New Sounds Live co-presentation with host John Schaefer, streamed live at www.newsounds.org. 

Brooklyn singer-songwriter and composer Sharon Van Etten is making her way to Brisbane for a one night only performance in the Concert Hall at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) on Friday 7 June 2019.

US singer-songwriter Sharon Van Etten is coming to Arts Centre Melbourne's Hamer Hall on Tuesday 11 June as part of her world tour, following the release of her critically acclaimed fifth album, Remind Me Tomorrow.

Celebrating its sixth birthday in 2019, Darebin Arts Speakeasy season features contemporary and challenging performances by leading creatives including Fleur Kilpatrick, Jessica Wilson, David Woods, Lemony S Puppet Theatre and Joseph O'Farrell.

French-Canadian artist MUNYA - a.k.a producer, singer, songwriter and performerJosie Boivin - announces her self-produced EP Blue Pine and shares it's beguiling first single. Following her 2018 EPs North Hatley and Delmano, Blue Pine is the final release in her three-song EP trilogy, which will be combined for Boivin's first-ever physical release entitled MUNYA. Blue Pine - named for Twin Peaks' imaginary Blue Pine Mountains, an homage to her love for nature and David Lynch - follows the trilogy's theme of being sung in both French and English, as well as the titular trend of being named for a significant place in Boivin's life. Boivin continues to create all of her own stunning artwork, and this hand-drawn album art will be available for the first time with the upcoming physical release MUNYA. Both Blue Pine and MUNYA will be released on March 8th on House Arrest/Fat Possum imprint Luminelle Recordings- pre-order HERE.

Producer Les Grossman and Executive Producer Robert Taleghany are excited to announce the TV pilot 'REEL: The Les Is More Show' is in development. Creation of this series was inspired by Tom Cruise's portrayal of the over the top concert/movie producer Les Grossman. Tropic Thunder starring Tom Cruise, Jack Black, Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr. and Matthew McConaughey among others was produced by Ben Stiller and released August 13, 2008.

Sundance Institute will gather 20 celebrated and revered expert voices across film, art, culture and science to award feature-length and short films shown at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival with 12 prizes, announced at a ceremony February 2 that will be livestreamed at sundance.org and on YouTube. Short Film Awards will be announced at a separate ceremony on January 29 and will also be livestreamed. The Festival takes place January 24 through February 3 in Park City, Salt Lake City and Sundance, Utah.

Parisian electro-pop duo SACRE will be sharing their brand new single '7:00PM VAHINE', set for release on 11th January via their very own imprint, Palmtree Hotel. The single is the first of many to be shared from their forthcoming album, 'LOVE REVOLUTION,' which will be part of SACRE's exciting project that harnesses music, photography and storytelling; the new album will be released track by track every first Friday of the month, for every month in 2019. This new release follows on from the pair's highly successful two EPs, as well as a remix album, that were released over 2017 and 2018. Last year's EP, 'The Call' was met with great international acclaim, achieving more than 2 million streams across online streaming platforms and becoming a Number 1 on Hype Machine Popular Charts. On top of this, SACRE have already gained extensive support for their music from a host of tastemaker TV channels including Canal+ France, YouTube channel La Belle Musique, as well as radio stations such as Beats 1 with household name Pharrell Williams and popular French station Radio FG and have collaborated and worked with top musicians such as Gigamesh, ELEPHANZ, CHOPSTICK & JOHNJON, Uppermost and Kraak & Smaak to name a few. SACRE have also garnered support from acclaimed publications such as Billboard, HuffPost, COMPLEX, CLASH Mag, Earmilk, Impose, Acid Stag, BlackBook Media and many more.

ArtsEmerson will host the New England premiere of When Angels Fall, a riveting tale of flightless angels surviving in the wake of a global collapse. As a mesmerizing contortionist and aerialist herself, French creator and director Raphaelle Boitel's storytelling is singular, and her ability to transform space in the air to the ground with large scale illusions - and bodies streaming across the stage - is magical. Boitel brings her spellbinding visual storytelling (no words are uttered on stage) for five performances only, February 20-24, at the Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre.

Dave Bautista has been cast in the film adaptation of Frank Herbert's classic science-fiction novel Dune, a new film adaptation of according to Entertainment Weekly.

Next week, FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club & Private Event Destination, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond

John Lloyd Young, the Tony and Grammy winning Frankie Valli from Broadway's Jersey Boys as well as the star of the Clint Eastwood-directed Warner Bros film, brings a new show to Feinstein's/54 Below January 6th and 8th featuring highlights from two popular programs he presents to sold-out audiences across the country.

David Lynch is announced as the latest instructor for MasterClass in 2019. The Twin Peaks Director joins fellow Instructors Natalie Portman, Jodie Foster, Timbaland, and Neil Gaiman slated to launch classes in early 2019.

Two-time TONY Award nominee, Joey McKneely, teams with award-winning playwright, Randall David Cook, to bring you a new dance musical with music and lyrics by Edison Woods, Maxim Moston, and Karen Bishko.