Roulette (Brooklyn, NY, Performance Space)

The Man Who Made Roulette Into New York’s Music Lab

Jim Staley has led the experimental venue since it began as a concert in his TriBeCa loft. After 45 years, he’s stepping down and looking back.

By Steve Smith

Robert Ashley’s 1994 opera “Foreign Experiences,” a portrait of a paranoid mind in free fall, is part of a wave of revivals following his death.

By Joshua Barone

Steve Lehman’s varied stylistic language draws from classical and jazz traditions as well as funk and hip-hop.

By Seth Colter Walls