About five minutes after an off-Broadway play called The Apple, by Jack Gelber, begins, a character picks up a spatula, slings blobs of paint at a transparent plastic canvas, and then kneads the goo ...

Dianne Wiest is performing Beckett dressed as a fake rock in Madison Square Park, which can mean only one thing: the Theatre of the Absurd is back, baby! Wiest is reprising her role of Winnie in Happy ...

“As expected, the devil demands the entry fee of one soul,” says Suchita Parikh-Mundul in the poem Nightclub on page 30 of her poetry collection Absurd Theatre. The book carries many curios for ...

This is James Taylor with Theatre Talk. Michel's stagecraft can't elevate the production beyond the cast's limitations or the play's challenges, but simply getting it up on stage is a valuable ...

The Theater of the Absurd was the vogue of the '60s, when the cry was "anything goes." and everything did. Characters on stage, usually larger than life, invited audiences to reflect on the comedy of ...

The Theater of the Absurd is something I participate in everyday: I photograph architecture: It is something real in my career- – life, the life of my career: In this universe “The Theater…” is and ...

These days, most peoples’ wallets are on a diet — which can make going out to the theater a financial gluttony to be regretted the next morning. Not so with An Absurd Evening of Absurd Theatre. “We ...