When the famously risk-taking experimental New York company announced that it was producing a stage adaptation of the first chapter of Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, it was rumored that the young theatrical innovators had finally lost their minds | Click here

A darkly elegant evening of gorgeous melodies with a theatrical flourish. Ann Magnuson and Adam Dugas face off on vocals as Alexander Rannie and Mia Theodoratus strum their harps in this twisted match of musical one-upmanship | Click here

This quarterly series for new performance works is an opportunity to experience an interdisciplinary mix of unexpected experimentation and intriguing investigations from Los Angeles artists | Click here

Soaring to a grand scale of artistic gesture and ambition, this major new multimedia work reunites two of the most influential artists in the United States today. Monk’s signature form of incantatory music-theater finds an uncanny match in Hamilton’s sensuous visual artistry as the full-evening piece channels an exploration of the spiritual, vocal, and physical notions of ascension across geography and time | Click here

Delivered with off-the-wall humor and terrific musical aplomb, this raucous farce from the internationally renowned Mexico City company reaches back to a florid chapter of European cultural history: the era of the castrati-superstars of 18th-century opera whose heavenly prepubescent voices won swooning adoration across the continent's highest courts. | Click here

Peerless in its uncanny integration of intricate three-person puppet manipulation, gorgeous costumes and sets, live shamisen music, and chanted narration, the Awaji Puppet Theater Company traces its roots to the originators of bunraku puppetry some 500 years ago--a legacy for which it has been named "Intangible Folk Asset" by the Japanese government. | Click here

The quarterly series for new performance works is an opportunity to experience an interdisciplinary mix of unexpected experimentation and investigation from Los Angeles artists. | Click here

The always-provocative New York ensemble has won an international reputation for pushing the limits of live performance and video art by lacing its original hall-of-mirrors multimedia stagecraft with flurries of livewire choreographed action. The group's latest work, SOS, draws on The Rite of Spring--the landmark collaboration between Stravinsky and Nijinsky--to confront themes of rebirth, sacrifice and ritual in a supersaturated, hyper-acquisitive society. | Click here

Deftly combining his trademark rapid-fire wordplay and poetic reveries with phenomenal physical movement, Marc Joseph Bamuthi leaves it all on stage in the break/s, his multimedia journey across Planet Hip-Hop. | Click here

The quarterly series for interdisciplinary experimentation continues with a curated program of six new works and works-in-progress by Los Angeles dance, theater, music and multimedia artists. | Click here

The human impact of the controversial U.S.-Mexico "border fence"--now being expanded into a fully militarized zone at a cost of $3 million per mile--is the subject of this year's production from the CAP/Plaza de la Raza Youth Theater Program. | Click here

The avant-garde dance and film pioneer stages a radical re-vision of The Rite of Spring, the brilliant and controversial Nijinsky-Stravinsky ballet that scandalized Paris audiences in 1913 with its "primitive" movement and dissonant score. | Click here