The raucous, bitingly funny opera from avant-garde theater icon Richard Foreman and celebrated composer Michael Gordon marks the home debut of the Center for New Performance. | Click here

Inspired by the delightfully unconventional Museum of Jurassic Technology, this alluring multimedia opera is the latest opus from Pamela Z -- the Alpert Award-winning electronic composer, singer and performance artist who has opened new horizons for vocal music | Click here

This high-velocity dance theater work from the internationally acclaimed Slovenian ensemble tells a compelling tale of love rich with passion and violence, accompanied by a zesty live music performance | Click here

Long heralded for its avant-garde stagecraft, the groundbreaking Polish company makes its Los Angeles debut with a eye-opening production based on work by Polish writer and artist Bruno Schulz | Click here

In November 2002, while head of CalArts’ A.S.K. Theater Projects Writing for Performance Program, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks began authoring a play every day for one year, timing the completion of the final work to mark the official opening of REDCAT. | Click here

Houston-based performance artist Elia Arce uses a sweeping combination of theater, music, film/video and installation in a provocative exploration of how personal ethics and moral beliefs collide with the act of killing during wartime | Click here

The quarterly program for new performance works and works-in-progress has served as a creative laboratory for Los Angeles artists | Click here

A phantasmagorical evening with the actress, writer, performer and lead singer/lyricist of the cult band Bongwater, featuring music, monologues, video and surprises | Click here

An intoxicating crossmedia examination of life in the post-privacy era from The Builders Association, the experimental New York company that puts new technology to stunningly visceral use in live theater | Click here

This solo tour de force tells an astonishing tale centered on three towering figures in the life of protean performer Marissa Chibas | Click here

This special event honors the winner of the first STAGE (Scientists, Technologists and Artists Generating Exploration) International Script Competition for the best new play about science and technology | Click here

Experience new works by emerging Los Angeles artists curated by William Flores and Lionel Popkin | Click here

A hilarious, poignant and completely unforgettable performance, Bust goes behind bars and into the echoing chambers of Lauren Weedman’s punishing psyche | Click here

Acclaimed choreographer Reggie Wilson explores intimacy and devotion, libido and love in a seamless collage of music and dance | Click here

The third installment of the quarterly program for new experimental performance works and works-in-progress | Click here

A series of performances by Tomas Benetiz (MC), Sandy Agustin, Barbara Bush/Martha Wilson, Douglas Kearney, Terence McFarland, Mark Murphy, Jordan Peimer, Los Pochos/Otono Lujan and more! | Click here

The three-week NOW Festival launches with a program of three works that are founded in movement, but varied in their approaches. Mason's Hip-hop moves and spoken word, Luyten and Alker's precise and poetic dance-theater, and a new music and dance collaboration from Tijuana-based Lux Boreal and Pedro Gabriel Beas of Nortec Collectivec | Click here

NOW Festival continues with two new works that employ technology, media and unique stagecraft: Heidi Duckler, "the queen of L.A. site-specific dance-performance" (Los Angeles Times), responds to REDCAT's performance space. The collaborative team of Lars Jan, Jane Pickett and Bureau V generate layers, both literal and psychological, in a work of operatic complexity, but without the singing | Click here

NOW's final program delves into the darkly evocative worlds of three decidedly different projects. Fjellestad's sonic abstractions are delicate compositions of noise. Kelly & David's mini-epic, three-act opera of cursed wanders warps American folk. And Iova-Koga's exquisite post-butoh performance stares deeply into the void that precedes birth | Click here

Blurring lines between confession and performance, concert and play, memory and creation, the Alpert Award winner braids two narrative threads: the final show of a ’70s-era cult-pop singer before her mysterious disappearance, and her daughter’s making of a documentary film, many years later, about the mother she never knew | Click here

This unflinching account of Iraqi society ravaged by war and occupation is a powerful combination of poetry, journalism and personal history from the award-winning Los Angeles performance poet and host of the KPFK radio program Beneath the Surface| Click here

At once sweeping in scope and finespun in its intricacies, this ambitious new work by Indian-German composer Sandeep Bhagwati is a full-evening structured improvisation that brings together a head-spinning array of music practices from different parts of the world—all working to conjure a new and unabashedly polyglot musical culture | Click here

Join us for something truly new as we invite Los Angeles dance, theater, music and multimedia artists to participate in an evening of interdisciplinary experimentation | Click here

Barrages of frantic avant-garde music blend seamlessly with inventive Butoh-inspired movement and intense physical theater in this rich, multilayered production from Seattle’s high-octane experimental group | Click here

This provocative performance concludes a series of community events, first begun last April, that question civic policy in downtown Los Angeles, where one person’s utopia has come to be another’s dystopia | Click here

An archaeological excursion into America’s cultural past, The Wooster Group’s highly experimental, multimedia incarnation of Hamlet channels the ghost of Richard Burton’s legendary 1964 Broadway version of the work—a production that was recorded from 17 camera angles, edited into a film, and screened for two days only at some 2000 cinemas across the country | Click here

Performance artist and playwright Holly Hughes has a flair for telling outrageous stories of everyday lesbian life, touching off controversy and challenging complacency at every turn | Click here

Join us for something truly new as we invite Los Angeles dance, theater, music and multimedia artists to participate in an evening of interdisciplinary experimentation | Click here

The Obie Award-winning duo of writer, director and actor Roger Guenveur Smith and composer Marc Anthony Thompson are joined by former Urban Bush Woman Treva Offutt to “navigate the bloodstream” of two lovers | Click here

Join REDCAT artists Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge in a lively conversation about the evolution of graphic design, the vernacular, and the dueling bedfellows of fine art and design | Click here

The Los Angeles-based gamelan Kyai Doro Dasih ("The Honorable Dream Come True") presents two performances of exquisite Javanese court music and dance and wayang kulit purwa -- an ancient form of shadow puppet play | 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

When the world’s most remarkable practitioners of the art of toy theater and miniature puppetry converge on the Los Angeles Music Center for a two-day festival for young audiences, REDCAT joins the whirlwind with a special night-time program -- for adults | Click here

Featuring the voices of Dermot Mulroney and James Cromwell, this filmed puppetry and toy theater adaptation is a divinely comic retelling of the classic text | Click here

The Actors' Gang's critically acclaimed production of George Orwell's 1984 returns to Los Angeles as part of an extensive international tour that has traveled to cities across the U.S. and to Hong Kong, Melbourne and Athens | Click here

The opening weekend of REDCAT's fifth annual festival of new performance features the techno-travels of multimedia performance troupe Cloud Eye Control, dynamic dance and music from Baker & Tarpaga Dance Project and a theatrical shredding of the story Jekyll and Hyde from Theatre Movement Bazaar | Click here

NOW Festival continues with Lionel Popkin's intimately awkward dance duet, rapid-fire choreography for Holly Johnston's forceful quartet and Poor Dog Group's humorous and wild trampling of theatrical expectations | Click here

The final program of of REDCAT 2008 NOW Festival brings together a cyber-erotic song cycle from Alpert-award winning composer Anne LeBaron and librettist Douglas Kearney, incisive and comic stories from writer/performer Kristina Wong and the emotionally powerful imagery of the newest work from Rosanna Gamson/World Wide | Click here