The Assembly is alive and well and living in New York (since 2008), creating group-devised theatre that interrogates The Weather Underground’s activism ( HOME/SICK ); economic and racial inequalities in the 21st century ( That Poor Dream ); and aging, art, and self-expression in America ( I Will Look Forward To This Later ). This young company of directors, designers, dramaturgs, writers, and performers celebrates the legacies of their avantgarde forebears by collectively making visually, aurally, and physically inventive political art that strives to build community.

When the landlords and the city began bulldozing community gardens, a group of NYU students and local community activists got together to protest and perform. The piece they made tracked the transformation of garbage-strewn lots into lush, vital, community havens—and cried out against the bulldozers lying in wait.