Thursday, August 9, 2018
Writer-performer Kit Finnie explores the fascinating, tragic experiences of scandal-plagued Hollywood silent film star, Mabel Normand in Kit Finnie: Mabel and Mickey.
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Reminiscent of the storytelling of Daniel Kitson, The Egg is a Lonely Hunter by Hannah Mamalis excavates loneliness and grief with tenderness,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:08AM[SHARE]Monday, August 6, 2018
Theatre is by its nature manipulative. But in Daughter, written and performed by Adam Lazarus, such manipulation is not earned. Lazarus eases
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:39AM[SHARE]Monday, July 23, 2018
With her perceptive study of Straight White Men, Young Jean Lee becomes the first Asian-American female playwright on Broadway. Supported by director Anna
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Making theatre about US politics is fraught. Whether he is deliberately snubbed or consciously included, shades of Trump abound in narrative injustices,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:30AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 15, 2018
(Photo: Joan Marcus)Mart Crowley's 1968 landmark play about gay men in New York does not feel like a 50 year-old play. While the film (from 1970) version is camp and heavy-handed, this produ…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 09:12PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 20, 2018
Mike Lew's Teenage Dick is a high school-set tongue-in-cheek tragicomedy that riffs on Richard III. Discontent with being class secretary, and wanting
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00PM[SHARE]Friday, June 8, 2018
It's always easy to find reasons to be grumpy about the Tony Awards. Whether it's overcritical omissions (what do you mean there's
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:54AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 1, 2018
Leaving Angels in America, I tingle. I am covered in tears and exhaling joy. The time has passed quickly. None of it has felt laborious. And I carry with me the feeling of religious devotion…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 06:41PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 11, 2018
In his one-man show John Lithgow: Stories by Heart, the charming stage legend recounts tales of his youth but at the heart
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 31, 2017
Due to job woes I was not able to get over to the UK much this year. So really...my list is a Top 10 of Edinburgh.1. Joan2. Lucy McCormick's Triple Threat3. Us/Them4. Letters to Windso…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 07:18PM[SHARE]Since I did not end up going to Edinburgh this year I did not have enough shows in the UK to make a separate top 10 list. So I'm combining US and UK shows this year because it's my lis…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 06:27PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 25, 2017
The Band's Visit is a gentle exploration of the unexamined lives of ordinary people from artists David Yazbek and David Cromer.
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David Henry Hwang revises his M. Butterfly at a propitious moment. Nicole Serratore reviews
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 10:07PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 29, 2017
Anna Ziegler explores the internal turmoil of tennis players on court and off in The Last Match. Nicole Serratore reviews.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 01:12PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 28, 2017
Diana Oh makes an unapologetic call to arms to queer the world. Nicole Serratore reviews.
The post Review: {my lingerie play} at Rattlestick Theater appeared first on Exeunt Magazine.
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 11:41AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 12, 2017
Boom Bat Gesture's 'Do Your Worst' series asks artists to create deliberate flops. Nicole Serratore asks them about failure, DIY theatre, and Spiderman.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 04:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 10, 2017
JB Priestley's between-the-wars drama, Time and the Conways bears the hallmarks of a well-made play of the period. It's suffused with class
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John Doyle's Off-Broadway production of Shakespeare's As You Like It is a mild-mannered affair " a passable production of limited enchantments. It's
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:15PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 19, 2017
Preserving performance is a challenge. How do you document multi-faceted work that involves sound, light, text, bodies, and music? Video may take images of it but rarely captures it. For Ann…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 02:00PM[SHARE]New York collaborative theatre heroes The TEAM are staging 'Primer for a Failed Superpower', a multi-generational pop concert of protest songs. Nicole Serratore sits in on rehearsals.
The po…
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Theatre productions beamed into the cinema act as soft diplomacy for the industry. It expands access beyond physical theatres and national boundaries,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 13, 2017
Andrew Garfield in Angels in America (Photo: Helen Maybanks)Sometimes a show is a time capsule to another part of your life. I saw Tony Kushner's Angels in America on Broadway just after I m…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 09:59PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 9, 2017
Photo: Play Co.Guillermo Calderón's play Villa is about three women asked to resolve the impossible--how should they treat the remains of General Pinochet's demolished Villa Grimaldi…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 06:20PM[SHARE](Photo: Johan Persson)Can a play be both rich and slight? Jez Butterworth's The Ferryman makes me believe so. Set in Armagh, Northern Ireland in 1981, it is inevitable that The Fe…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 05:48PM[SHARE]Friday, June 30, 2017
When it opened Off Broadway in 1991, Scott McPherson's Marvin’s Room was viewed through the lens of the Aids crisis " the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:13AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 29, 2017
We ended up not doing this piece for Exeunt...but I had these fake Obie awards that I wanted to give out for work in 2016 so I thought I would share. Best Play About Economic AnxietyDominque…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 09:50AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 25, 2017
In Simon Godwin’s taut production of Measure for Measure the audience enters the theatre via the back entrance through Mistress Overdone's brothel. Greeted by
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 22, 2017
Sales of George Orwell's novel, 1984, have skyrocketed since the inauguration of Donald Trump. It’s an apt moment for Robert Icke and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 11, 2017
Activism, terrorism, and Turkish politics shape this Performative Essay starring two tortoises
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 09:07PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 16, 2017
The first rule of Derren Brown: Secret is you need to keep it secret. Magician and mentalist Brown is making his American
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