Mass MoCA will host a workshop performance of "What to Wear," a 20-year-old avant-garde opera by Richard Foreman, ...

The late Andrew Porter, for many years the classical-music critic of The New Yorker, once wrote that he was tempted to consider “The Mother of Us All,” the composer Virgil Thomson’s second stage ...

John Glover’s Eat the Document is based on Dana Spiotta’s 2006 novel about New Left activists. Maria Baranova-Suzuki Throughout, a tenuous connection is drawn between Weathermen-style 1970s militants ...

A man walks into a bar -- but much more than a punchline follows at "Cafe Buffe," the setting for a new comic opera of the same name by composer Dean Drummond and librettist Charles Bernstein.

The avant-garde opera company the Industry threw a feel-good bash at downtown L.A.’s historic Bradbury Building last week. Called the “Decade Party,” the evening was dedicated to honoring founder ...

Fugazi‘s music has been made into an “opera,” but that doesn’t mean coloratura-soprano renditions of “Shut the Door.” Last year, the New York City experimental music-theater ensemble Object Collection ...

On Wednesday, the Caravan Stage Company held its opening night of “Hacked: The Treasures of the Empire”, an avant-garde experimental opera that challenges viewers to consider the impact corporations ...

The stage scrim is decorated with a wall of window panes; behind these panes is a tilted square column; in front of the large column stands a woman. A mysterious man dresses the woman in multi-colored ...

BASEL, Switzerland — Herbert Wernicke, a German avant-garde opera designer whose productions appeared in major theaters across Europe, has died. He was 56. Wernicke died Tuesday in Basel, where he was ...

“To hell with convention!” Frank Lloyd Wright spits out in a scene from “Shining Brow,” an opera about his early life. It’s a disingenuous moment. Yes, Wright, the visionary architect, left his wife ...