Luis Reyes

The aptly named Common Ground Festival -- the Audrey Skirball--Kenis Theater Project’s seventh annual free-to-the-public festival of innovative, extratextual theater -- began as a way for ASK to welcome under its umbrella companies that transgress traditional theater models, that don‘t necessarily use a completed text as a blueprint but, rather,......

Art by Santiago UcedaTHE EDGE OF THE WORLD THEATER FESTIVAL, A CITYWIDE network of performances by mostly local troupes and individuals (50-plus attractions in one week), may be the first such festival that's the progeny of the Internet: born from a Web chat site hosted by a confederation of stage......

Illustration by Michael CrivelloWHETHER RAT IS AN ACRONYM FOR REGIONAL Alternative Theaters, Room and Transportation or Raggedy Ass Theaters is still being debated. There is agreement, however, that RAT is an informal network of small, not-for-profit theaters in the United States that find themselves linked by poverty, the Internet and......

Photo by Rob NavaASK THEATER PROJECTS' COMMON GROUND festival, starting this week at UCLA's Macgowan Hall, focuses on the art of performance, rather than on the script-based orientation of ASK's other programs. (ASK Theater Projects is a national, privately endowed theater-support organization.) "We have expanded what we would define as......

ASK Theater Projects' Common Ground Festival, an annual staging of dance and performance works-in-progress, is slated to run at UCLA's North Campus from June 23 to 28. Because of ASK's national profile, the odds are good that these pieces will re-emerge later this year or next, perhaps with a bit......