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Stewart Copeland has spent the better part of five decades in rooms where history was being made \u2014 the Police’s early club runs, stadium stages across four continents, the scoring stages of Hollywood. His spoken word tour, Have I Said Too Much?, gives him the opportunity to do something he rarely had time for during those years: explain what it all meant.
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The show arrives at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts on Friday, November 13, 2026, at 7:30 PM \u2014 a date carrying its own particular weight, given that this hillside in Sullivan County is where the original Woodstock festival took place in 1969, eight years before Copeland would co-found The Police and help redefine what a rock trio could accomplish.
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About the Show
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Copeland has assembled a 90-minute evening combining conversation, archival photography, video footage, and an audience Q&A. The format proved itself over multiple European tours; what arrives stateside this year is its first full domestic rollout, spanning more than 50 cities through November 22. The complete tour title \u2014 Have I Said Too Much \u2014 The Police, Hollywood, and Other Adventures \u2014 maps the territory honestly: his years in one of the most commercially successful trios of the 1980s; a parallel career as a film and television composer that earned him a Golden Globe nomination for Francis Ford Coppola’s Rumblefish and assignments from Oliver Stone on Wall Street and Talk Radio; and the productive tangents along the way, including Oysterhead with Trey Anastasio and Les Claypool, and the opera Holy Blood and Crescent Moon commissioned by Cleveland Opera.
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A multiple Grammy Award-winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee (2003), Copeland has been equally committed to documenting his career in print. His 2009 memoir Strange Things Happen preceded the 2023 Police Diaries, which its author describes as the truest account of the band’s formative years. The companion book and CD release tied to this tour includes 12 previously unreleased archive tracks \u2014 additional evidence that Copeland’s archive runs considerably deeper than any single touring format can contain.
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About the Venue
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Bethel Woods Center for the Arts sits on the grounds of the original Woodstock festival in Bethel, NY \u2014 a 16,000-capacity performing arts destination in the Hudson Valley that draws major programming precisely because of what the land means. There is a certain coherence in placing one of rock history’s most reflective voices on a stage that exists because of the moment this particular field witnessed in August 1969.
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Tickets & Info
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General public tickets went on sale May 1, 2026. Stewart Copeland performs at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, 200 Hurd Road, Bethel, NY 12720. Showtime is 7:30 PM.
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