‘American Idiot’: It’s Not Easy Being Green Day

I wish I could tell you I loved American Idiot. It looks good; it sounds good; it features a talented and hardworking cast; and, most excitingly and unusually, it appears to be drawing an enthusiastic crowd decades away from Social Security to West 44th Street night after night.

But I can’t. American Idiot—the rock opera Read More

Theater: Green Day’s Soldier Stark Sands

Stark Sands probably never thought of himself as a casting director’s go-to choice for a young GI. But take a glance at the 31-year-old Dallas native’s résumé and a pattern emerges: He’s played military men in Flags of Our Fathers and HBO’s Generation Kill, and in 2007 he garnered a Tony nomination for his role Read More