Michael LaRocco
Sometimes a Cigar is just a Cigar
“Man in Polyester Suit” is a photograph by American artist and provocateur Robert Mapplethorpe. The photograph is a black and white...
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Michael LaRocco
Aug 25, 202111 min read
Who's Afraid of Martha?
Martha, the self-loathing heroine of Edward Albee’s searing 1962 play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is the embodiment of the gay icon...
Michael LaRocco
Oct 9, 20208 min read
Life Is A Drag
Realistic and codified performance in theater is based primarily on the premise that performance can be approximated into neatly aligned...
Michael LaRocco
Aug 5, 20202 min read
Lullaby To My Father
My father abandoned my family when I was three days old. There were no visits, no summer vacations, no holidays. My father simply disappeare
Michael LaRocco
Jan 20, 20192 min read
Patti Smith: Because the Night
The Patti Smith concert at the San Francisco Art Institute was a transformational experience, the stuff dreams are made from. I left...
Michael LaRocco
Jan 20, 20192 min read
One More Time With Feeling
The Nick Cave documentary One More Time With Feeling is a documentary done as an impressionistic painting. The movie is like a long,...
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