As chosen by an American playwright and two European directors.

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 ...

These themes and more are in store for the second annual Tucson Fringe Theater Festival, a weekend packed with new plays, most by new playwrights. Fringe fests happen around the world - there are ...

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 ...

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 ...

This past November, Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, sponsored a three-day “international” conference entitled “Avant-Garde Art and Literature: Toward a Reappraisal of Modernism.” As ...