So while it may be easy to deride directors for "trampling" on Shakespeare when we've endured a pointlessly fussy production, we should take equal care to laud those who've given us the great nights at the theater – whatever conceptual style they may favor.
The Joyce does present a wide range of work, from tap to contemporary ballet to the French choreographer Maguy Marin, whose conceptual, politically charged work the theater staunchly supports even though some viewers have walked out.
But Mr. Hautekiet, who described himself as an exhibition specialist dispatched from Antwerp to oversee the display of the site — he has a long background in unconventional guerrilla theater and sly conceptual art in Belgium — recently showed a reporter some of the more unusual items recovered.
Amatus is a performative conceptual artist, working in music, theater and film "with themes related to identity, history and popular culture," her website states.
"They were all -- except for 'On the Town' -- shows I felt were challenging and engaged the audience to think about theater in visceral and conceptual ways".
Don't be put off by the conceptual tone; Mr. Ouramdane is a poet of the theater.
Rogoff's diatribes against the philistinism of recent theater -- his barbs aimed primarily at conceptual directors and anyone who ignores language -- though often invigorating, leave one with little hope for the future.
Los Angeles vocalist and songwriter Kelela, experimental theater producer and composer Elysia Crampton, and influential conceptual artist Adrian Piper have shared two new tracks together.
Gone are the nights when a singer walked onstage and just sang, without the conceptual framework that defines an act and puts the imprimatur of theater on it.
Mr. Kupriyanov, born in 1954 in Moscow, is a theater director by training, and he takes a far more conceptual approach to documentary.
