The more theatergoers appreciate the importance of process and become stimulated by it, the more innovative and audacious theater will be.
"Newyorkland," part of the Coil Festival, a stylish new play by Temporary Distortion, an audacious theater company specializing in multimedia explorations of film genres (horror in "Americana Kamikaze"; road movies in "Welcome to Nowhere"), doesn't just cut through such simplifications.
But who is the target audience for this muddled half-and-half "Tosca," no experiment in audacious modern theater?
Based on the work of the cartoonist Charles Burns, this hilarious production says a host of serious things and is audacious as sheer theater.
Jerry Rubin provoked the witch-hunting House Un-American Activities Committee [HUAC] by appearing in a Revolutionary War uniform, an audacious piece of theater that landed him on the pages of Time Magazine.
George W. Bush's "Top Gun" landing on the deck of the carrier Abraham Lincoln will be remembered as one of the most audacious moments of presidential theater in American history.
During his tenure as its executive director, Classical Theater presented an audacious mix of Shakespeare, black classics like "Funnyhouse of a Negro," even a "Waiting for Godot" set in a post-Katrina landscape.
Ms. Churchill is as formally audacious a dramatist as the British theater knows, and this 1980 caprice, at once fiercely clever and deeply pessimistic, makes its very structure part of the play's abiding point.
An audacious proposal by the English experimental theater director Ken Campbell to stage Illuminatus! in its entirety at The National Theatre in London was met with surprisingly open arms, particularly given its inordinate length: a cycle of five plays The Eye of the Pyramid, Swift Kick Inc., The Man Who Murdered God, Walpurgisnacht Rock and Leviathan each consisting of five 23-minute-long acts.
Metropolitan Playhouse, which revisits works "that explore the American theatrical heritage," has made an audacious choice, allowing viewers to ponder how theater has evolved and how status was portrayed.
The audacious lettering of its original 1950s awning hails the theater as being from another time it is a reminder of the age before multiplexes and DVD rentals, when going to a movie was itself a big event, a social happening, like a night at the opera.
