is aNew York based company producing adaptations of contemporary literary works and original plays in theater and film. The company for us is an umbrella from the main stream culture under which we research, experiment and offer an alternative; a parenthesis embedded deeply inside the main text but structurally and definitely independent from it.

nyc performance art group with monthly open improv sessions, assembling content for web-based streaming productions to launch Fall 2001

Non-profit, professional, experimental theatre lab in Minneapolis, MN.

A student run production company of all trades based at Umass Dartmouth.

is a non-profit media and theater group producing new, original works in theater, performance, media and hybrid forms. 3-Legged Dog's mission is to explore the new narrative possibilities created by technology, to examine the braided realities of language and structure, to foster self-expression and skill in young artists through practical educational initiatives, and to provide an environment for artists to excel across a range of disciplines.

multi media experimental performance theatre , non-profit artists resource and community outreach project

Founded and managed by the actor/director Massimo Zanasi, Arka Theatre concentrates on research involving modes of expression and on producing works which have been touring the world for several years. It is a centre for cultural and artistic proposals emphasizing linguistic and aesthetic forms in the various arts.

Greenwich Village, New York.

A non-profit theatre company, presents works to "challenge the imagination and boundaries of both artists and audiences."

An NYC performance company, formed in 1998 by Caden Manson, aggressively attacking the boundaries of performance though its explorations with structure, medium and process.

A group of four artists based in London who make live events for theatres, clubs, galleries and the street. The group's work confronts a media saturated world in which popular culture rules, using video and computers to ask questions about the ideologies present in the information that envelops us.

A Columbus, Ohio based fellowship of artists building a more conscious and compassionate world by creating joyful and profound theatre.

An international theatre company specializing in combined arts performances fusing many forms of world theatre, dance and music. Works across borders, between cultures and art forms, between nations and peoples.

A United Kingdom-based theatre company working in educational and community settings, combining New Technology and participation.

Williamsburg performance group.

An art collective, performance space, and theatrical venue administered by a confederation of 14 member-artists from various disciplines. C:U is committed to providing low-cost, high-value entertainment in the Lower East Side, and supporting the production of new material in the performing arts.

This site has information on Complicite's current and forthcoming productions, education work (projects and teaching) and a complete archive of Complicite productions with photos and reviews.

New York-based company that generates innovative forms of theatre through experiments with language, new music theatre, and explorations of political issues, seamlessly integrating the visual arts, music, dance, technology, and architecture.

Details of current and forthcoming activities.

Curious Theater Branch. Original ideas. Original Theater. Changing the world, one imagination at a time.

Founded in 1986 by the late John W. Wilson, an original Joffrey Ballet member and DADA scholar.

Composed primarily of former Texans, founded in New York City. Work is made from plays, original ideas and various media, and includes native Southern storytelling, a capella singing and chant. Show schedule and profile provided.

A non-profit organization providing a venue for literary and performing artists to present new works in live performances.

Based out of New Mexico.

dutch theatre group DOGTROEP, plays on location, experimental, national and international.

Go to Jerungdu Theatre for satire, artrock, fringe & avantgarde.

Elevator Repair Service is a theater group based in New York City. See the schedule of upcoming shows, read what the press has to say, or get on the mailing list.

Working in non-theatrical spaces, breaking away from expected traditional forms of theatre.

Created to help promote alternative live performance and theatrical risk taking and seeking to establish Chicago as the national center for experimental theatre.

Site for Fevered Sleep, performance company that makes theatre, installation and site-specific performance

Dedicated to stirring up public feelings by investigation of controversial issues and dramatizing the infinite mystery of the extraordinary in the ordinary.

Specializes in bringing inspired works of literature to life by producing dynamic, film-like walkabout productions in non-traditional theatrical venues.

An ensemble of artists based in Sheffield, England working together since 1984 producing work in theatre, installation, digital media and film.

Frantic tour all over the UK performing wild and wonderful Music Hall and Variety shows in venues big or small, from living rooms to community centres from theatres to dinner parties.

A transatlantic performance group working out of Kelowna, British Columbia, and South Wales in the United Kingdom.

Ensemble focused on the creation of original work, and dedicated to redefining the relationship between actor, director, designer, technician, and artist.

Founded in 1996, the company creates ensemble-based performance work utilizing gestural performance techniques in a commitment to creatively investigating the world around them.

Garung is a company of actors and dancers committed to producing innovative and professional theatre with a universal resonance. Garung's performances are beautiful juxtapositions of the traditional and cutting edge.

Their goal is to re-invent the process of creating theater, from training and education to collaboration and production. They have a particular interest in international and multicultural projects, because they feel that the arts of the 21st century must be global.

Home page for Global Village Idiot Productions (GVIP) dedicated to the creation and staging of original experimental theatrical works.

A company based in Birmingham, UK, that creates new live theatre, performance art and cross disciplinary arts locally, and tours on a regional and national basis. History of the company, fanzine with biographies and pictures, and information about current projects.

An award-winning and critically acclaimed performance and art center.

Encompasses Kraine Theater, St. Marks Theater, and Red Room Theater in NYC: includes calendar, upcoming season, reservation and rental information.

The theatre company Hotel Pro Forma is a vehicle for dramatic composition at the boundary of theatre and exhibition.

Group of actors, directors, designers, and administrators collectively exploring the American landscape through theater.

Founded in 1996 by American director Josh Fox and a diverse group of theatre and dance artists from the United States, Thailand, Taiwan and Indonesia, who met as participants of the Bangkok-Berlin-Bali Rendezvous of Arts Festival in Bangkok, Thailand.

One San Francisco's original venues for new works in Theatrical, Literary, and Performing Arts. This site showcases all of the upcoming and current happenings.

An experimental/research theater ensemble. Information on productions, education, library, newsletters, funding, links and contacts.

Founded in 1996 by Canadian theatre artist Colleen Lanki, this Tokyo based theatre company does original, multilingual productions blending different theatrical styles and traditions.

Konic Thtr can be defined as a label for the production and realisation of artistic projects using interactive technology. Interactions body-sound-light and image, where the public will finish or modify the process that the authors initially proposed.

Performance space in the East Village, NYC

Brooklyn-based experimental theater ensemble dedicated to collaborating on the creation of original, interdisciplinary work for the theater.

Creating aggressively visceral theater combining historical revisionism, Grand Guignol comedy, experimental dance, rigorous academic research, multimedia excess, and found texts.

Austrian fashion designer, based in Berlin. Has been presenting numerous happenings, performances and shows, in which she tells stories in the language of fashion.

Chicago based performance group

Mabou Mines is an avant-garde theater company emphasizing the creation of new theater pieces from original texts and the theatrical use of existing texts staged from a specific point of view. Established in 1970 and based in New York City.

Nearly two decades of cutting edge theater in Durham and voted Best Theater in the Triangle 2003.

Background information, repertoire, calendar, press and clips.

A group of creative writers from St Andrews University.

Documentation of live projects 1993-2001 including Genetic Wake, 9 adaptations from the novel Finnegans Wake; Glasgow Weekend, a curated programme of Urban Context performance and art at London Foundry; and Foundry/Dom London/Moscow Cultural Exchange programme.

A Center for Theatre Creation and Research. Experimental theatre productions and workshops conducted by James Slowiak and Jairo Cuesta, former assistants to Jerzy Grotowski.

Non-profit, community-based experimental theatre lab dedicated to presenting works by under-represented groups.

Creating and producing forward-looking performance.

An interdisciplinary company of mid-career artists creating new performance works in Minneapolis.

Dedicated to working with classic texts. Performing in New York City and in Europe.

An adult oriented performance theatre company based in the Arts Centre in Calgary Alberta Canada.

Since its inception in 1999, OneLight Theatre has been a company where every member contributes; actors, technicians, members of the production team, all have a voice.

Information concerning current and future performances at the Ontological at St. Marks Theater, which is the permanent home of Richard Foreman's Ontological-Hysteric Theater.

An experimental theater and entertainment company of New York City artists, performers and designers specializing in pop-art and conceptual, pop-based extreme live imagery. Information about events, individual artists, picture gallery, and booking information.

Ritual technology, intermedia theater, and video poetics, plus astrological insight, all from playwright and filmmaker Antero Alii.

Official site of the Iranian theatre group.

Offers "unusual, intelligent material for site-based performance."

a not-for-profit arts center serving the New York City dance and performance community. P.S.122 is committed to supporting the development of work by individual artists who create live art with an authentic vision. It is fully dedicated to finding, developing, and bringing to the public eye artistic creations from a diversity of cultures, points of view, ages, and sexual orientations.

SITI was founded in 1992 by Anne Bogart and Tadashi Suzuki to redefine and revitalize contemporary theater in the United States through an emphasis on international cultural exchange and collaboration.

NYC based multi-disciplinary performance company that combines video, theatre, music, and installation to create vivid live events relevant to people from all walks of life.

Performer Rachel Rosenthal teaches her performance technique DbD (Doing by Doing) that integrates text, movement, voice, choreography, improvisation, inventive costuming, dramatic lighting and sets.

Performing schizophrenia for the information age.

A comic political site that hopes to resist the destruction of neighborhoods by malls and chaines stores.

The company strives to bring new forms of theater and performance to the public and to advance public awareness of live theater and further public understanding of theater practices including script-writing, actor processes and directing techniques.

As a group for stage action and a laboratory of architectural planning, Sciatto looks at social and urban borderlines as the last field for artistic performances.

A Canadian company creating and presenting rigorous contemporary performance.

producing some of the most groundbreaking theater in New York City, a "hot house" for daring, intrinsically theatrical excellence.

SOHO THINK TANK strengthens, nurtures and promotes an aesthetically and culturally diverse community of independent theatre artists and theatre companies, by producing, presenting, and programming new work at the Ohio Theater, in Soho

Committed to discovering new relationships between text, performers, and audiences, to exploring and exploding social mythology, and to creating a theatrical space where the familiar can give rise to the unknown.

An experimental theater based in Sacramento, CA. Productions include Little Red, Ecclesiastes, Frankenstein, Faust, Hamlet's Women, and Book of Hours.

Founded on the principle that works of art return us to real truths most powerfully by their divergence from a strict illustration of reality. Through contemporary, as well as classic texts, we continuously seek to expand our conception of what can take place in theater.

Trento-Italy based theatre company dedicated to multi media experimental performance theatre. The group makes live events for theatres, clubs, galleries and the street. It is working in educational and community settings. Elena Marino, Teatrincorso's director, is also writer of theatrical texts. Teatrincorso organizes the International Festival "Officine dei Teatri".

presenting unique nonlinear combinations of text, image, and sound...creating strange new theatrical experiences.

Founded in Antwerp in 1989. Its members want to put in scene themselves, as actors, with their capacities and their failures (acknowledged) in the center of the step that they revendiquent?: destruction of the theatrical illusion, naked play, contradiction and the description of the possible divergences in the rigorous play and engagement with respect to the character and of what it tells.

Creates large-scale theater projects exploring the interface between live performance and media. Work re-animates theater for a contemporary audience, using current tools to interpret old forms. Productions combine historic and new texts with performance, sound, video, and architectural sets to create a world onstage which reflects contemporary culture

A performance ensemble that focuses on the creation of bold new works and adaptations.? Works in a broad range of styles, forms, and media, with original projects that range from the "standard" straight drama to the "cutting edge" of performance art.? Based in New York City.

A Philadelphia based company that is dedicated to developing interdisciplinary, multi-media, collaborative works that integrate visual, performing, and media arts in live performances, film, video, audio, and site specific events.

Leicester, UK; produce devised performance work which avoids the constriction of a director or 'outside eye'.

The Grassmarket Project's aim is to provide new theatre, which combines the raw truth of life with technical excellence. We believe that truth is more important than fiction, and that ordinary people and their experiences can form the basis of powerful theatre. Edinburgh, Scotland.

Founded in 1996 to promote, produce, and perform new and alternative works of theatre, produces new scripts, children's works, Commedia del Arte, and theatrical happenings.

Dedicated to perserving the culture of our African ancestor while providing healing for self and community through music, theater, and dance.

A California-based touring company producing original work for stage and radio.

Official site of a Bombay-based theatre company that aims to discover and popularize alternative spaces for theatre. Founded by Pushan Kripalani, Rehaan Engineer, Karan Makhija, and Nadir Khan.

Experimental theatre company based in Denver Colorado

A company organized to bring young adult audiences closer to art and culture; using innovation and experimentation as tools for its objective.

The Neo-Futurists are an ensemble of artists who write, direct, and perform their own work dedicated to social, political, and personal enlightenment in the form of audience-interactive conceptual theater

Montreal company devoted to experimental creation, including installations, adaptations, and collectively written material.

Boston Experimental Arts Ensemble which is a collective of eclectic theatre artists communicating in a variety of styles; monologue, storytelling, dance/movement, puppetry, music, etc. featuring improvised and autobiographical material often being presented for the first time.

produced original performance pieces which mix absurd comedy, political satire, and a unique confrontational acting style.

Information on an interdisciplinary performance company in Minneapolis, MN USA. The Gallery creates original work with texts comprised of the poetry and prose of past and living poets, and performed by dancers and movement actors, live musicians and visual artists.

Theatre collective in NYC

creating visual, culturally diverse performances since 1997, theater et al combines world-premiere adaptations of neglected works (often in new translation) with an aggressive mix of movement, image, sound and music--seeking to reimagine the art of theatrical storytelling, on an epic scale, for a contemporary audience.

One of Australia's foremost underground experimental theatre companies, concentrating on themes of politics and horror.

Established in 1982. Experimental theatre, theatre education, drama research. History, education, productions.

Broadcasting unique live shows over the Internet using a revolutionary 360-degree streaming video system. Visit the site to watch shows, contribute ideas, read about the artists or chat with fellow Tornado enthusiasts. It's online entertainment with a twist!

An ensemble of artists committed to providing our community with innovative, thought-provoking, professional theater.

Artist run company focused on developing, exploring and producing thought-provoking expressive theatre works. Ontario, Canada.

A United Kingdom/German live art company based in Bristol, England. Dedicated to making innovative collaborative work which challenges the boundaries between art-forms and opens live and digital work to new audiences.

Brian Jucha shares his projects and archive

Research club attempts to use an ideal model of 'Anytime, Anywhere, and Anyone can do Theatre'.

A site-specific theater company performing classic works with experimental twists in Pennsylvania. The site offers history, artistic goals, and future employment possibilities.

An international group of artist dedicated to exploring a multiplicity of theatrical visions.

Experimental theatre company performs a different show each night compiled from over 60 pieces combining original movement, music and dialogue.

Chicago based performing arts and production company that builds multidisciplinary collaborative teams centered around a specific concept to create pieces for stage, exhibits, installations for museums, educational institutions, media or film productions.