It's more avant-garde - it's like fresh theater." The inaugural festival drew about 400 people. A dozen plays were submitted and six were performed. Six were submitted this year, and the five selected ...

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.

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 tumultuous 1960s, with its bacchanals and revolutions, adopted Euripides’ Bacchae as its main myth. In iconic stagings like the Performance Group’sDionysus in ’69 or the Living Theatre’s Paradise ...

The musical titans just keep making tracks to Orlando this year. The latest is the announcement that avant-garde legend Terry Riley will be playing an intimate show in the City Beautiful later this ...

Subtitling a play about a dystopian competition where the winner is allowed to procreate and save the human race while the loser is ritualistically slid beneath a circular saw, “winner loses action ...

War and revolution often spur in artists visions of radical change. That's what happened in early 20th-century Europe when the Great War and Russian Revolution uprooted life for millions. From the ...