Soon, a German magician named Denis Behr, 44, dressed all in black and about as tall as an N.B.A. forward, took a seat at a ...

The influential avant-garde director, who passed away at age 87, concocted phantasmagoric works with names like “Rhoda in ...

The Ontological-Hysteric Theater, which he founded in 1968, presented more than 50 of his plays, among them “My Head Was a ...