Possessed of a rather astonishing longevity and seemingly boundless creativity, the groundbreaking theater company The Wooster Group has been at it for more than three decades now. The group, which still rehearses out of the same Wooster Street garage where they officially began in 1980, is world famous for pushing live performance past all conventional limits, and expanding well-known plays (Hamlet, The Emperor Jones) into new, unforeseen dimensions. Their latest foray is a provocative interpretation of Tennessee Williams's 1977 Broadway flop Vieux Carré, a mostly autobiographical memory play about a writer's artistic and sexual awakening while living in a New Orleans boarding house in the 1930s. Though it failed commercially, some critics were fascinated; Clive Barnes at the NY Times called it "haunting... Why do we always expect playwrights to write narrative plays? We don't always expect composers to write symphonies." more ›

The most exciting story in New York theater this year had nothing to do with the Broadway stagehands' strike, it was the vibrant growth of what used to be called “experimental theater”, a movement that can now really only loosely be defined by what it’s not: non-naturalistic and not made for TV, with an emphasis on bold physicality, collaboration and, sometimes, multimedia. more ›

After seeing Being John Malkovich, who didn’t consider what it might be like to be Malkovich. Okay, maybe not. But you probably never thought about this either, John Malkovich – clothing designer. That’s right John has fallen in line with J-Lo, Sean Coombs and a host of others who believe they can cross-over from entertainer to fashion design diva. more ›