# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Stop Making Sense (1984)
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 23 Aug, 2025 at 04:00 pm – Sat, 23 Aug, 2025 at 05:30 pm
- **Event Description**: SHOWTIMES
Wednesday, August 20 2025, 7:00pm
Thursday, August 21 2025, 7:00pm
Saturday, August 23 2025, 4:00pm

TICKETS
$16 Adults
$14 Seniors 60+, Students/Children, & Military/Veteran/First Responder

https://www.themusichall.org/events/stop-making-sense-1984/

Restored in 4K, the 1984 Talking Heads concert film was directed by renowned filmmaker Jonathan Demme and is considered by critics as the greatest concert film of all time. Stop Making Sense stars core band members David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz, and Jerry Harrison along with Bernie Worrell, Alex Weir, Steve Scales, Lynn Mabry and Edna Holt. The live performance was shot over the course of three nights at Hollywood’s Pantages Theater in December of 1983 and features Talking Heads’ most memorable songs.

The movie is the finest imaginable version of the Talking Heads’ Speaking in Tongues tour. The concert’s physical staging elements, introduced in pieces and segments, with elegant and wryly suggestive words, create an aura of pristine unease. -Chicago Tribune

As wonderful as all this new technology is, it would be nothing without Demme’s simple framing, the band’s musical intensity and Byrne’s lanky, restless cool. Those were the film’s strengths 40 years ago and they remain so today. -Houston Chronicle

The drama that Demme evokes in “Stop Making Sense” is the artistic self-transcendence that emerges from collaboration in performance. The New Yorker

Talking Heads made for great material, with its revolutionary mash-up of punk, funk, art, avant-garde and other sounds. But what sets “Stop” apart is the intimate look at that brilliant talking head, lead singer David Byrne. -LA Times

Stop Making Sense successfully captures almost everything that was great about the Talking Heads, and there’s no better endorsement of a concert film than that. -Austin Chronicle

R, 88min

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- **Event Categories**: entertainment, music, art, concerts, theatre, performances, workshops, live-music
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 7

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://www.themusichall.org/events/stop-making-sense-1984/?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=portsmouth-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Portsmouth
- **state**: NH
- **country**: United States
- **location**: The Music Hall
- **lat**: 43.07581843803
- **long**: -70.759489613047
- **full address**: The Music Hall, 28 Chestnut Street,Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: The Music Hall (https://allevents.in/org/the-music-hall/26000251)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sat, 23 Aug, 2025 at 04:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** The Music Hall, 28 Chestnut Street,Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** The Music Hall
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** entertainment, music, art, concerts, theatre, performances, workshops, live-music
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Stop Making Sense (1984) ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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