JAKE BRASCH — THE RESERVOIR
Josh—a queer, alcoholic, and very erudite NYU college student—has passed out on the beach again. Upon coming to, he thinks he’s on the Atlantic, but soon realizes he’s back home in Colorado. Except he has no memory of how he
SOMETHING IN THE WATER AT MAXXI
“The exhibition’s selection of works, ranging from sculpture and poetry to installation and architectural gestures, makes it a place to listen and interact, a space where water is not just shown, but expresses itself—with its voice, its physical presence, its
RIGOLETTO — MASKS, POWER, AND THE ECHO OF FASCISM
When the curtain rises on “Rigoletto” at LA Opera, the audience is confronted by a surreal and unsettling tableau: around thirty masked men in suits, standing in tight formation, their faces obscured by animal visages and commedia dell’arte grotesques, stare back at
ROBERT O’HARA’S HAMLET
Usually set in a castle in Denmark during the Middle Ages, Robert O’Hara’s reinvention of Hamlet brings our current century to the play, yet it remains a period piece. Or rather, a piece of many periods, depending on who’s doing