Philip Guston Standing on his Head / Standing Philip Guston on his Head

As with many Off-Leash performances, this one takes place in a garage—a quaint, thirty- five-seater situated behind the home belonging to co-artistic directors Paul Herwig and Jennifer Ilse. “It’s unbelievably unpretentious and really Midwestern,” Herwig has said, with a chuckle. “In New York, nobody has a garage!” As is likely evident from its title, this latest Off-Leash production pays homage to Philip Guston, the American painter who forsook his prominence among mid-twentieth-century abstract Impressionists and turned instead to creating peculiar pink wastelands cluttered with all manner of junk. 612-724-7372; www.offleashearea.org”