As chosen by an American playwright and two European directors. By Juan A. Ramírez What defines avant-garde theater is as nebulous as its origin story, but most scholars point to 19th-century France, ...

I took the most delight from the wild-eyed “My Onliness,” possibly because I spent half of the show with a man-sized doll on my lap. The stuffed-fabric figure was being used as an effigy by a ...

The only time I was detained by police was in January 1969, when I attended the Performance Group’s Dionysus in ’69 along with my grandmother. The Ann Arbor police shut down the production after the ...

Infernal Bridegroom produced classic avant-garde plays by writers like Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, and Bertolt Brecht, along with commissioned and original works. Thirty years later, the company ...

The Catastrophic Theatre has announced its 2022-23 season, highlighting the work that has made it, along with its forerunner Infernal Bridegroom Productions (IBP), Houston's premier avant-garde ...

"How do you measure a year in the life?" Jonathan Larson a name synonymous with American Musical Theatre in the 90s penned this phenom of a Musical based on the Puccini Opera La Boheme. Featuring a ...

In Germany, a sonically daring Chekhov adaptation and a post-apocalyptic western “opera” are breaking down barriers between genres. By A.J. Goldmann FRANKFURT — Ever since Bertolt Brecht and Kurt ...

Robert Wilson, the avant-garde theater director and artist whose slow, sculptural stagings changed the language of performance, died on Thursday, July 31 at his home in Water Mill, New York. (Bronwen ...

A rare avant-garde artist who managed to cross over to mainstream pop success, Laurie Anderson returns to San Francisco to play a sold-out show with the band Sexmob at the Curran Theatre Thursday.