The Wooster Group

05/29/2026

The Festival d'Automne à Paris has invited us to perform two pieces at this year's festival: SYMPHONY OF RATS and GET YOUR ASS IN THE WATER AND SWIM LIKE ME. Both run November 6-10, 2026, at La Commune CDN Aubervilliers. Festival subscriptions are now available.
SYMPHONY OF RATS: https://www.festival-automne.com/en/edition-2026/the-wooster-group-symphony-of-rats
GET YOUR ASS IN THE WATER AND SWIM LIKE ME: https://www.festival-automne.com/en/edition-2026/the-wooster-group-get-your-ass-in-the-water-and-swim-like-me

SYMPHONY OF RATS photo by Andrea Avezzú/courtesy La Biennale di Venezia
GET YOUR ASS... photo by David Andrako

05/20/2026

Today, Wooster Group director Elizabeth LeCompte receives the American Academy of Arts and Letters' 2026 Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts, recognizing her as "a titanic force in experimental theater and performance for over fifty years."

Pictured: Elizabeth LeCompte working in Venice last year. Photo by Aaron Amodt.

04/17/2026

NAYATT SCHOOL REDUX starts tonight in London at , Through April 25 only — remaining tickets are limited! Get yours at the link in our bio.

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02/03/2026

Read The Guardian's interview with Elizabeth LeCompte, Kate Valk, and Scott Shepherd about NAYATT SCHOOL REDUX and more – in advance of our April performances at NAYATT SCHOOL REDUX at the Coronet Theatre in London.

For info and tickets, visit: https://www.thecoronettheatre.com/whats-on/the-wooster-group-nayatt-school-redux

In wonderfully bewildering shows, New York’s venerable avant garde theatre company mash together everything from baroque opera to sci-fi B-movies. Their next trick? A seance-style tribute to an old friend

01/15/2026

01/03/2026

In memory of Libby Howes — July 6, 1955 - December 17, 2025 — early member of The Wooster Group who performed in Sakonnet Point, Rumstick Road, Nayatt School, and Point Judith (an epilogue).

Libby also performed in The Balcony by The Performance Group and created her own solo piece, ### - Standing Room Only, performed in October/November of 1980 at The Performing Garage.

12/01/2025

See us in London next spring: NAYATT SCHOOL REDUX in April at The Coronet Theatre!

08/28/2025

Visiting artist at The Performing Garage: see "Honor, an Artist Lecture by Suzanne Bocanegra Starring Lili Taylor," Weds Sept 3-Sun Sept 14. Tickets available here: https://thewoostergroup.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/ #/events/a0SPC000003EA5p2AG

"Peak lecture-performance in the age of the internet: hundreds of images and deftly intertwined stories that romp through time, inserting the personal into a broader cultural history with precision and wit.” – Claire Bishop, ARTFORUM

Visual artist Suzanne Bocanegra uses theater to interrogate the history and practice of the visual arts. Part performance, part memoir, and part gleefully rambling cultural essay, her “Artist Lectures” are intensely personal, exhaustively researched, and kaleidoscopically wide-ranging.

"Honor, an Artist Lecture by Suzanne Bocanegra Starring Lili Taylor" is based on a 16th-century tapestry at the Metropolitan Museum of Art entitled “Honor,” which depicts 69 historical and allegorical figures who offer personal stories as moral lessons in honor and in dishonor. Bocanegra’s very close reading of the tapestry leads her to weave together such diverse topics as Carole King’s Tapestry album, tableau vivant, the founding of the Girl Scouts of America, Anni Albers, the Monkees, the history of theater and, most significantly, the meaning of honor.

Starring Lili Taylor, directed by Geoff Sobelle, and produced by Jecca Barry. Frances McDormand, executive producer. Kathleen Irvin Loughlin, Executive Co-Producer.

08/20/2025

Four chances left to catch GET YOUR ASS IN THE WATER AND SWIM LIKE ME at Joe's Pub – ends Saturday!

Info and tickets: https://publictheater.org/performances-jp/2025/e/the-wooster-grouperic-berryman-get-your-ass-in-the-water-and-swim-like-me

Photos: David Andrako
Sound: the toast "Signifying Monkey" from GET YOUR ASS IN THE WATER AND SWIM LIKE ME

08/17/2025

.reviews says GET YOIR ASS IN THE WATER AND SWIM LIKE ME “tell[s] a story that need[s] to be told that’s rarely told.” See it tonight at and get $30 tickets with the code FRIEND30. (Ticket link in bio: performances continue through Aug 23.)

“Let me tell you who should see this show. . . . Anybody who loves a dirty story. Anybody who likes dirty jokes. Anybody who had a favorite uncle and that uncles used to tell them stories. Anybody who has a relative who earned a Purple heart, I would say that. A barber — I would take any of those people.” — .reviews (link to the full review is in our bio)

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