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Given Arizona’s current tensions, more enforcement-only legislation can only provoke violence. There’s something sinister going on: an unholy and unreasonable alliance between actual bigots and citizens understandably concerned about jobs and safety. When politicians like McCain generalize undocumented immigrants as violent...
Both Palmer and Hoch shine in one of the most disturbing scenes in the play, when the 16-year-old Bishop rapes his mother on the island. Giuliani’s decision to have the actors perform the scene symbolically, with the stage bathed in sinister red light is a...
Giles often dons garishly gender-bending outfits to depict frightful women in narrated performances of Karturian’s stories. In one, he forces a tight red dress and thick strands of pearls over his detective’s uniform. Even more bizarre, Katurian’s costume for the...
The set evokes the sense of claustrophobia in “The Pillowman”—psychological because of the brutal torture the detectives inflict on Katurian and physical because of the intense proximity mediated by the space of the Loeb Ex itself. The set incorporates a giant...
At first glance, this might look sinister. But the reality is that it is simply different and not yet necessarily good or bad. China could try to reshape the global order alongside the U.S., in ways that help by supporting American economic recovery, defining new norms on proliferation, cooperating on...