After all this time, David Foster Wallace can still make you feel stupid.  I don’t think he means to do it, but he does. This is plainly evident in the essays featured in Daniel Fish’s A (radically condensed and expanded) Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again After David Foster

Is this the post-modern gladiator? I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: the Walker Art Center’s annual “Out There” series is primed to make you think. Take, for example, “Still Standing You,” the second piece in this year’s series. This show had everything you didn’t know you needed.

Never ask “why?” at the Walker. Photo Credit: The Walker As an avid devotee of their “Out There” series, I have learned that it is best to lay all pre-conceived notions of the structure or content of a show at the door, instead leaving my mind open as a blank

Pan’s Labrynth? Child’s play. If you want to see magical realism from an Eastern perspective, look no further than Niwa Gekidan Penino’s The Room Nobody Knows. Credit: The Walker I jest somewhat, but there really is a Guillermo del Toro-ness to Penino’s play that simultenously lends it a familiar yet

The Walker is known for nontraditional performances, and Wunderbaum/LAPD’s Hospital production fits right in.   Credit: Walker Art Center Equal parts spoof of the fetishization of the medical world in television (a la Grey’s Anatomy) and serious commentary on flaws in the international health care system, Hospital touches on everything