Can anyone doubt that SEX, DRUGS, AND ROCK & ROLL are the three most powerful forces in American culture today? With continual nationwide debates over teen pregnancy, gay marriage, abortion, internet porn, Janet Jackson's breast, smoking, medical marijuana, illegal drug trade, pop music lyrics, hip-hop culture, and lots more, could it finally be time to stop demonizing these forces and start understanding more deeply our human relationship to them? How can the most over-medicated culture in the world overreact so ferociously to the use of drugs like marijuana? How can it be that we as a culture are so afraid, so repulsed by sex, and yet every new technology we create-- film, video, the internet, YouTube -- we use first and most enthusiastically for sex?

New Line Theatre opened its seventeenth season of daring, muscular theatre with the world premiere of the new revue, SEX, DRUGS, AND ROCK & ROLL a fearless roller coaster ride that explores these three ubiquitous forces on Americans and our culture. From The Trojan Women to Romeo and Juliet to Dracula to Rent, many of our most lasting, most universal stories have tried to explain sex. And drugs – from Sleeping Beauty to A Midsummer Night’s Dream to The Wizard of Oz to Hair to Requiem for a Dream, we have always been fascinated by altered consciousness. And rounding out the cultural trifecta is rock and roll, an art form in existence only fifty years yet already the most powerful cultural force in the history of the world.