notes from the weekend

• Regina Morones is incandescent as the title character in Shotgun Players' Yerma, adapted from the Lorca play and directed by Katja Rivera. On the surface the story is about one woman's too-consuming desire for a baby, but the viewer can also extrapolate outward to conundrums women have faced through the ages and to Lorca's own struggles with his sexuality. Risky, powerful work.
• The new exhibition at Letterform Archive, Subscription to Mischief, is absolutely superb, viewing graffiti through the lens of the '90s zines that both documented it and helped to legitimize it as an art form. I'm always blown away by Letterform's meticulously researched wall texts, and though the East Coast is strongly represented there are many local legends in the show besides.
• Catharine Clark recently extended its gallery space into the rooms next door, and the Jen Bervin exhibition that is there right now is an excellent inaugural use of the space. The centerpiece of the show is the Mississippi River, visualized by the artist in hand-sewn sequins and positioned so that it spills down one entire wall and winds its way across the ceiling, but Bervin's other conceptual work (test tubes containing the ashes of burned journals, "poems" of silver thread) is also quite lovely.