In an interview with Eric Dyer, theater collective Rude Mechs discusses onstage sex in Dionysus in 69, their collaboration with Radiohole (who performed at Out There 2010), and the autobiographical nature of The Method Gun (which launches Out There 25 Jan. 10-12).

The Guardian’s list of 2012’s top performances has Back to Back Theatre’s Ganesh versus the Third Reich—part of next month’s Out There festival—at no. 7, dubbing it “the most challenging and subversive” piece at the London International Festival of Theatre.

Frederick Neumann, an actor and mainstay of the experimental theater company Mabou Mines, passed away in late November at 86. The company has visited the Walker many times, including in 2005, for its presentation of DollHouse.

Co-commissioned by the Walker, Elevator Repair Service’s 6-1/2 hour GATZ opens a nine-show run in LA Wednesday night. Dubbing the text indispensable, ERS decided to read every word of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby—aloud and on-stage.

“Part of the rap against activists is they’re railing against something,” says Marc Bamuthi Joesph, whose Walker-co-commission red, black & GREEN: a blues opens at BAM this week. “I want to make something. I want to make the world I want to see. It’s not just pretty art.”

Students in Wesleyan’s Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance are adding context to the RoseLee Goldberg–curated Performance Now show. Online reflections include the Walker’s Michèle Steinwald on Jérôme Bel and Abigail Sebaly on Jesper Just.

On Sunday, HBO’s Treme recreated a 2007 production of Waiting for Godot on New Orleans’ streets. That piece, which included Treme’s Wendell Pierce, was staged by artist Paul Chan, who says post-Katrina NOLA reminded him of the void in Samuel Beckett’s 1953 play.

Held by Palestinian police without charge since May 13, theater director Zakaria Zubeidi is on a hunger strike and may die within days. Co-founder of Jenin’s Freedom Theatre, the former militant has renounced armed struggle in favor of cultural resistance.

Arts Council England now has a £15 million fund to help art organizations pay their interns. “Our worry is that we’re simply going to lose a generation of talented young people if we don’t support the sector really practically in creating more opportunities.”