Pete Townshend is turning his 2019 novel The Age of Anxiety into a rock opera, featuring a soundtrack of new original songs. The Who guitarist is also working on a documentary chronicling the entire ...
You’ve heard rock operas like Pink Floyd’s “The Wall,” Meat Loaf’s “Bat Out of Hell” and Green Day’s “American Idiot,” but what about a rock album that gets reimagined as an opera? Billy Corgan is ...
The history of rock operas began thanks to a band that was feeling creatively restless. The Pretty Things were bored with making records in the usual way and decided to change things up as they began ...
The Renaissance Theatre is presenting Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s legendary rock opera, "Jesus Christ Superstar," for a limited engagement the next two weekends. The musical, which has drawn in ...
ARLINGTON — Thursday night served as the dawning of the Age of the Beasties, as “Beasties: A Sci-Fi Rock Opera” had its triumphant world premiere at the Regent Theatre. With live actors performing in ...
“No Country for Old Men” and “Harry Potter” actor Kelly Macdonald has joined the ensemble of Searchlight Pictures’ rock opera “O’Dessa.” Written and directed by Geremy Jasper (“Patticake$”), the film ...
Eternal Holdings today announced the premiere of The Impossible Dream, a two-hour, cameo-driven, vignette-style rock opera ...
Jesus Christ Superstar is notable in how it blurs genres. Billed as a "rock opera," but it also draws from musical theatre conventions. "Rock oratorio" might be the best label for the show because the ...
Nate Richard is a Resource Editor for Collider, a film and television critic, and a part-time amateur filmmaker. He graduated from Ball State University in December 2020 with a Bachelor's degree in ...