David Levine's 2012 production of Habit is a theatrical installation of Jason Grote's The Children of Kings . Performed on repeat for eight hours a day and staged inside an enclosed set built to look like the interior of a suburban ranch house, it challenges the boundaries of what viewers perceive to be theatre.

Playwright Charles Mee invites artists to pillage his texts, and in their production of Heaven on Earth Witness Relocation and Ildi! Eldi do just that. Under Dan Safer's direction, the companies bombard the audience with their exuberant encounter with the existential question, “What happens after the world ends?”

Since 2001 the Civilians, a small but prolific New York-based company best known for its investigative theatre, has been creating shows on an array of topics such as the culture of the evangelical church, divorce, the porn industry, and ecological disaster. Under the artistic direction of Steve Cosson, the Civilians challenge what audiences have come to know as documentary theatre.