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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Argentina's tragicomic clowning company Rey Marciali Producciones' "La Celestina" is a takeoff on the classic 1499 work by Fernando de Rojas. Julieta Daga portrays an actress under the perpetual risk ...

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 ...