Thankfully they understand the need for art to take risks, challenge and research its creative process and product, and keep pushing audiences to venture to see new work.
Pushing audiences to think about art and its display is central to the mission of the Aldrich, one of the United States's first museums devoted solely to showing the work of living, especially young, artists, with a brief to show work no more than five years old.
Series like Orange is the New Black and Transparent have been pushing audiences to reexamine their biases and preconceived notions of this misunderstood (and actively discriminated against) part of the LGBTQ community.
But the thieves and lowlifes that populate "Brat" (Brother) — an adaptation of the opera by Cantieri Teatrali Koreja from Lecce, Apulia, and Centar Za Kulturu from Smederevo, Serbia — mean to push audience reactions a little further.
Larry David pushed audiences away; Jerry Seinfeld seduced them.
A commemoration and cross-section of a band who've pushed audiences' buttons as well as artistic boundaries?
The production, which opened a few weeks before the U.K.'s 2015 general election, pushed audiences to consider whether democracy was really available to the disempowered and dispossessed, and particularly to women.
But at the same time, it has pushed audiences to reckon with a legacy of brutality and racism that Hollywood has historically ignored, and to think about how contemporary popular culture can and should address the horrors of the past.
Time Out wrote: "They've spawned countless imitators and pushed audiences' understanding of the potential of theatre to the limit – and now Britain's immersive theatre pioneers, Punchdrunk, are returning".
But if that wasn't enough, they've also drafted in perhaps the biggest prankster in movie history to help them: Vanessa Hudgens, who I'm convinced made all those High School Musical films out of a bizarre desire to push audiences to the brink of madness.
