Founded in 1947, The Living Theatre is the oldest operating experimental theatre in the US, located in New York City. The Living Theatre was established by Judith Malina and Julian Beck as an alternative to commercial theatre. During the 1950s and early 1960s, the theatre provided a platform for poetic drama stagings such as Stein’s work, that otherwise did not exist in New York at the time. Since its origination, The Living Theatre has staged close to one-hundred productions in twenty-eight countries on five different continents.
