The Casket of Passing Fancy is not a play, and it’s not, in any conventional sense, improv. It’s a hyper-participatory extravaganza of perpetual surprise, culminating in a theatrical experience that, like a psychedelic Choose Your Own Adventure story, tailors to each individual audience member’s taste, curiosity, or hunger....

Célébrez la performance! Entertain, or die. The mutli-faceted, loosely-connected, intellectually-rigorous fare that’s common from the Rude Mechs is again on display in Have You Ever Been Assassinated?. The boisterous-while-intricate, convention-bending staging by director Carlos Treviño coupled with the sharp dialogue and big-ideas-in-small-packages text by playwright Rebecca Beegle is often exceptionally witty and delightfully clever. So clever, in fact, that even though we hardly cared about the characters—a circumstance that’s generally a one-way road to......

We know...it's a strange question. The Rude Mechanicals, kings and queens of strange done with quality and flair, open Rebecca Beegle's Have You Been Assassinated tonight at 8pm. Directed by Carlos Trevino—the man who helmed such delights as Not Clown and The Kinderman Depiction—Have You Ever Been Assassinated looks odd and intriguing. We got our hands on a few advance copies of some press photos, so we thought we'd share 'em with you.......