Jarry's farce of 1896, designed for marionettes, caused an uproar in Paris and helped shape the progress of avant-garde theater in the 20th century. As a notorious buffooned, lampooned character, Ubu ...

Pere Ubu Singer David Thomas Dies at 71 The musician and writer was one of the most creative and distinctive voices to emerge from Northeast Ohio ...

Every few years, San Francisco theatre-goers have an opportunity to see Ubu Roi, Alfred Jarry’s comic masterpiece about a spoiled, temper tantrum-throwing tyrant. The play has been staged here by the ...

In sifting Esslin’s text, three significant plays emerge as historic steps in the development of absurd theater. The first was Ubu Roi, performed in Paris in 1896, and written by Alfred Jarry, a ...

Laurel and Ella Greenway with UL Theatre, stopped by First at Four to share the details on their upcoming production of UBU: A COUP D’ETAT SHEE-IT STORY. This November, UL Theatre is thrilled to ...

The director, stunt coordinators, and actors participate in rehearsal for the upcoming LBCC performance of "Ubu Roi". The play is a dark comedy first performed in 1896. (Sofia Hopkins) The universal ...

Ubu Roi, a landmark piece of theater that prefigured the surrealist, modernist and absurdist movements, comes to the Lupin Theatre.

We wanted to do some theater that reflected a punk rock show and the honesty and raw vitality of that,” says Tim Robbins, one of the founders of the company and its artistic director. Their first ...

If you ask experimental theatre about its intentions, you’ll usually hear about either revolution or radicality—something explosive. Even the term “avant-garde” is salvaged from the ...