Joe Armstrong News

Direct from Broadway, the smash-hit musical AMERICAN IDIOT tells the story of three lifelong friends, forced to choose between their dreams and the safety of suburbia. Their quest for true meaning in a post 9/11 world leads them on the most exhilarating theatrical journey of the season, running May 28-June 2, 2013. Tickets are on sale now.

Green Day announced that they would collaborate with Actions REALized to create a line of decks to benefit Children's Hospital and Research Center Oakland. Skateboarding and music can be a positive force for change. That simple thought is something REAL and Green Day have always believed.

The entire cast and musicians are multi-talented and the production values are innovative. On opening night, when the curtain went up, the cast was welcomed by screams, howls, and cheering, by a throng of teenagers...

American Idiot, Green Day's explosive Broadway hit called 'wonderfully raucous' and 'emotionally charged' by the New York Times, will play the Straz Center in Tampa from tonight, May 17-19, 2013. For more information or to purchase tickets, please visit www.strazcenter.org or call 1.813.229.STAR.

East Bay rockers Emily's Army today premiered the music video for their new song 'War' via Guitar World.

Green Day lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong, who wrote this rock opera's lyrics, and his punk rock band that created its unstoppably vibrant music weren't going for "comfortable." They were aiming, along with co-creator and director Michael Mayer (who picked up a Tony for his direction of Spring Awakening), to offer a musical production that breaks ground for its in-your-face punk rock approach to storytelling and its entirely unapologetic tale of sex, drugs and (punk) rock n' roll. And while there's lots of all of the above-and all very well done-there's not so much in the way of a plot with any depth.

Direct from Broadway, the smash-hit musical AMERICAN IDIOT tells the story of three lifelong friends, forced to choose between their dreams and the safety of suburbia. Their quest for true meaning in a post 9/11 world leads them on the most exhilarating theatrical journey of the season, running May 28-June 2, 2013. Tickets are on sale now.

Casting has been announced for the upcoming national tour of Green Day's AMERICAN IDIOT, the explosive Broadway hit called "wonderfully raucous" and "emotionally charged" by The New York Times and "flat-out electrifying" by the Boston Globe, which will make its Jacksonville premiere at the Times-Union Center's Moran Theater on Tuesday-Wednesday, May 14th -15th for two performances only.

Rise Records is proud to announce the signing of East Bay punk band Emily's Army, who will release their sophomore album Lost At Seventeen on June 11, 2013. The album was recorded in Oakland, CA and produced by Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong.

Broadway Idiot, a documentary about the making of Berkeley Rep's acclaimed stage version of Green Day's American Idiot, debuted to stellar reviews at last month's South by Southwest Film Festival. Now it returns to the theatre where it all began as a benefit for Berkeley Rep's education and outreach programs. Broadway Idiot plays for one night only in the Roda Theatre on Saturday, May 4 at 8:00 PM.

Broadway's Omar Lopez-Cepero guest stars on VEGAS on CBS tonight, April 12 at 9/8c. Click below to get a sneak peek at the actor singing singing 'Besame Mucho' in his episode of VEGAS!

Broadway's Omar Lopez-Cepero guest stars on VEGAS on CBS this Friday, April 12 at 9/8c. Click below to get a sneak peek at the actor singing singing 'Besame Mucho' in his episode of VEGAS!

The 2013 Newport Beach Film Festival (NBFF) proudly announces the documentary BROADWAY IDIOT as its Opening Night film. The red carpet screening of BROADWAY IDIOT will take place in Newport Beach on Thursday, April 25th

Reprise Records' multi-platinum GrammyAward-winning Green Day will kick off their 2013 U.S. arena tour tonight in Chicago at Allstate Arena.

On March 5-7, the electrifying cast of American Idiot took the stage at TPAC's Andrew Jackson Hall. The musical, which was inspired, written, and created by Billie Joe and Green Day, is a satisfying change from the typical Broadway show.

Billie Joe Armstrong, Green Day's vocalist/guitarist wrote the lyrics for 'American Idiot' in the rock opera style of 'The Who', with songs that follow three disenfranchised young men- Johnny (Alex Nee), Will (Casey O'Farrell), and Tunny (Thomas Hettrick) as they attempt to leave their stifling suburban selves in the hopes of not becoming another 'American Idiot'.

YALE REPERTORY THEATRE (James Bundy, Artistic Director; Victoria Nolan, Managing Director), dedicated to the production of new plays and bold interpretations of classics that make immediate connections to contemporary audiences, announces its 2013-14 season, which will begin with A Streetcar Named Desire, the Pulitzer Prize winning masterwork by Tennessee Williams, directed by Mark Rucker. OBIE Award winning resident director Evan Yionoulis will mark her thirteenth production at Yale Rep with Owners, the dark comedy by Caryl Churchill. Director Christopher Bayes and actor Steven Epp return for Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Nobel Prize winner Dario Fo.

Green Day will make their South By Southwest debut today, March 15th, two weeks prior to them hitting the road at a special double feature screening of films at the Paramount Theatre, the world premiere of Broadway Idiot and the Green Day documentary ¡Cuatro! Later that night the band will perform ACL-Live at the Moody Theatre.

According to the New York Times, Broadway veteran and Green Day member Billie Joe Armstrong is set to write songs for 'These Paper Bullets' at Yale Repertory Theater. The show, which is a rock version of 'Much Ado About Nothing,' will premiere in March 2014. The show will be directed by Jackson Gay, and will be about 'a band from Liverpool dealing with romance and the music industry in London.'

Green day frontman and AMERICAN IDIOT composer Billie Joe Armstrong wowed crowds and made a major return to the stage following his recent stint in rehab and onstage meltdown at a Las Vegas concert last year with a live Green Day last night in Pomona, California.