David Byrne’s “American Utopia” Comes to Television

At the start of David Byrne’s peculiar, exuberant “American Utopia,” which played on Broadway last season, the former Talking Heads front man contemplates a model of a human brain. Part concert, part vision quest, the show is also a chance to contemplate Byrne’s own brain—a unique specimen—as he expounds on philosophy, belts out many of his hits, and marches through the aisles with a roving twelve-piece band, all in matching silver suits and bare feet. A filmed version, directed by Spike Lee, comes to HBO on Oct. 17.