Tom Morello is OUTRAGED Google have eliminated Black Historical past Month, Pleasure Month, and Girls’s Historical past Month.
The Rage In opposition to The Machine guitarist posted a graphic that identified Columbus Day and Black Friday are nonetheless acknowledged.
Earlier than Tom Morello turned the guitarist for Rage In opposition to the Machine and Audioslave, he acted at school performs at Libertyville Excessive Faculty. He performed Oberon in A Midsummer Evening’s Dream and says his time within the drama membership helped form his activism.
“A few of my preliminary civil disobedience coaching was within the drama membership at Libertyville Excessive Faculty,” Morello mentioned.
Now, he’s returning to his hometown with a brand new mission on the Goodman Theatre. He’s working with Chicago author Zayd Ayers Dohrn on a musical known as Revolution(s) that can premiere as a part of the Goodman’s One centesimal-anniversary season in 2025–2026.
Earlier this week, Morello launched the mission on the Goodman Theatre. He additionally spoke with WBEZ’s Clare Lane about working in theater and his position because the musical director for Again to the Starting, a heavy steel competition in July that shall be Ozzy Osbourne’s farewell present.
Morello has recognized Dohrn since childhood. “Zayd Dohrn, who wrote the e-book for the present — I’m mates together with his mother and father, Bernardine Dohrn and Invoice Ayers, the leaders of the Climate Underground within the ‘60s and ‘70s. And I’ve recognized him since he was a child. He’s only a good author, a superb individual.”
About six years in the past, Dohrn reached out with the thought of utilizing Morello’s music in a theater manufacturing. “You realize, I’ve made 22 albums in my three-decade profession. And so, we started mining these songs and my writing some extra songs, whereas he conjured this multigenerational story of affection and revolt.”
This isn’t a typical jukebox musical. Morello and Dohrn need Revolution(s) to really feel like an underground rave combined with a theater present. “We would like it to be as very similar to an underground unlawful rave as a theatrical efficiency — it’s actually thrilling to be doing it on the Goodman in my favourite metropolis on the planet.”
Considered one of Morello’s largest considerations was ensuring the present saved the vitality and which means of his music. “Considered one of my principal considerations entering into was that the North Star of my writing, from Rage In opposition to the Machine to the current, was to have one thing that was very uncompromising and unapologetic. I’m like, ‘Can we do that very same factor within the theater?’ I didn’t need a musical theater model of my track catalog.”
