The Living Theater The Living Theater is a theatrical company that took a different road than those of traditional theaters. Lead by Julian Beck and Judith Malina, the Living Theater smashed the barriers between art and politics. This far left-wing company was ready for a new theater, a theater that was out to change the state of things, performing plays that were not being done and doing them in new untried ways(Gottfried 95). American theater of the past was made up of complete right-wingers. Right wing plays, right-wing directors, and right-wing theatergoers. In the 1940's left wingers started stepping into the theater challenging the traditional rig