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 ...

Once upon a time, in New York, we measured our lives in Richard Foreman productions. For decades, the crocus of our theatrical spring was the widespread wheat-pasting of his black-and-white posters on ...

Chicago-based guitarist, songwriter and composer Bill MacKay and area experimental percussion duo Neutrals — will take 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 ...

HUNTER — The Catskill Mountain Foundation will host three showings of a new multimedia play which, even among playwrights, could be considered avant-garde. “It’s set,” said executive producer Deborah ...

Companies bring body horror and political statements to Berlin’s FIND festival of new international drama, where the Wooster Group is the “artist in focus.” By A.J. Goldmann Reporting from Berlin We ...

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - In this week's Don't Miss List: EDM’s Big Night, Avant-Garde Theater and Ozomatli Plays the Songs of L.A.

John Cage, an icon of the contemporary avant-garde, occupies an odd status in the music world. A seminal figure in the history of post-World War II music, Cage, who died in 1992, stood at the ...

Heavyweight avant pianist Matthew Shipp comes to Trinosophes, Detroit’s home for improvisational and experimental music, on Wednesday. Of course, the real challenge is explaining Shipp’s art.