Links 

• Political Theatre Groups & Troupes
• Source Material on Radical Artists
• Topics in Political Theatre
• Political Theatre Campaigns, Coalitions, Competitions, Awards, & Festivals

Other Buffalo-Area Progressive Theatre Companies

• Buffalo United Artists
  Known as "Buffalo's off-Broadway," this ten-year-old theatre company often focuses on gay-related and politically oriented material
• Hag Theatre Company
  Buffalo's lesbian theatre troupe frequently speaks to political issues
• Ujima Theatre Company
  Western New York's only professional African- American Theatre Company -- often highly political

Political Theatre Groups & Troupes Worldwide!

• The Actors' Gang
  Spearheaded by the notorious lefty actor Tim Robbins this L.A.-based group is devoted to "raw, immediate, and socially minded" theatre
• Artists' Network of Refuse & Resist!
  The anarchist group Refuse & Resist sponsors this national network to create a "Culture of Resistance"
• Bread and Puppet Theatre
  Not their official website, but a good source for info on this left-wing puppet street theatre organization
• Brecht Forum -- New York Marxist School
  A central Manhattan-based educational group for radical political debate and theatrical productions
• Buddies In Bad Times Theatre
  Toronto's pre-eminent gay theatre often with a political angle
• Castillo Theatre
  An off-off-Broadway collective devoted to "Post-Modern Political Theatre"
• City Garage Theatre
  A Santa Monica-based troupe which endeavors to "the necessary global dialogue on social change."
• Cleveland Public Theatre
  An "alternative performance company" devoted to "experimental & political" theatrical work
• The Diggers
  Started in the 1960s, this quasi-underground San Francisco-based street theatre campaign has long been a source of radical art
• Edward's Theatre Company
  One of England's most progressive theatre companies
• InterAct Theatre Company
  A Philadelphia-based company for "contemporary plays that explore social, political, and cultural issues"
• Keep Left Theatre
  One of Melbourne, Australia's most extreme political theatres
• LaMaMa Theatre
  An off-Broadway troupe devoted to controversial new works especially that of Blacks and Latinos
• The Living Theatre
  Since the 1950s this company has been one of the world's leading sources of controversial theatre
• Lost Carnival
  A Toronto-based group specializing in left-wing musicals, "inspired by theatre practitioners, such as Bertolt Brecht, Dario Fo, Clifford Odets and John McGrath"
• New Federal Theatre
  A company on Manhattan's Lower East Side "specializing in minority drama"
• The New Group Theatre
  An off-Broadway troupe specifically focusing on social and political issues
• Optative Theatrical Laboratories
  Based in Montreal, this "non-hierarchical dramatic collective" undertakes to "theatrically challenge hegemonic thought-patterns and oppressive systems."
• The San Francisco Mime Troupe
  Since 1959, this collectivist troupe has been using everything from street theatre to Commedia del'Arte to advance "socially relevant theatre"
• Stage Left Theatre
  The issue-oriented theatre that the Chicago Tribune calls "unabashedly political"
• THAW Theaters Against War
  Built out of the 2003 anti-Gulf War movement, this NYC-based umbrella group unites over two hundred member companies worldwide!
• Theatre of the Oppressed Laboratory
  Rooted in the work of Brazilian Director Augusto Boal, this NYC collectivist troupe uses "interactive theatre as an organizing tool" against social injustice
• Travesty Theatre
  An English-speaking Montreal based group whose mandate is to "create a spectacle that produces in its audience a state of revolution, fear, lust, and beauty"
• Tricklock Theatre Company
  A New Mexico touring company "committed to artistic risk, physicality, absurdism, and poetic work"

We are eager to make this catalogue as all-inclusive as possible.  If you know of any websites that ought to be included here, please contact us and let us know.