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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Foreman began the Ontological-Hysteric Theater in 1968. His vast body of work includes plays Total Recall (1970), Dream Tantras for Western Massachusetts (1971), Vertical Mobility (1974), My Head Was ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over the past two weeks, the worlds of visual art, theater and opera have been collectively mourning the loss of multifaceted artist and director Robert Wilson, who died of an unspecified acute ...