The company was founded in 1998 by Corinne Kessel of the band Los Furios and Michael Scholar Jr. Their first production was world English premiere of the
expressionist operetta
The Black Rider at the
Edmonton International Fringe Festival.
The Black Rider was created through the collaboration of singer-songwriter
Tom Waits,
William S. Burroughs, and
avant-garde stage director Robert Wilson. In 1999, they were invited to bring
The Black Rider to the New York Fringe Fringe Festival where it won the festival award for “Best Direction”. In 2010, November Theatre went on to produce the stage adaptation of Hard Core Logo, the Bruce McDonald film and Michael Turner book. Joe "Shithead" Keithley of D.O.A. composed new music for the show called "Hard Core Logo: Live". The script was written by Founding Artistic Producer Michael Scholar, Jr. The production premiered at Theatre Network in Edmonton in 2010 before touring to the PuSh Festival in Vancouver in 2011. ==Touring history==