An inventive audio show from comedian-storyteller Hannah Mamalis shifts our perspective. Nicole Serratore reviews. The post Review: Speak Softly, Go Far: Hannah Mamalis at Dublin Fringe Fes…
SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 07:26PMA climate change opera with a sly libretto is undone by a casually messy staging in an undersized venue. Nicole Serratore reviews. The post Sun & Sea at BAM Fisher appeared first on Exe…
SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 11:15AMMe and my freshman dorm This month marks the 28th anniversary of me moving to NYC. My boss was moving his daughter into the same NYU dorm I lived in yesterday. While it was probably emo…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 12:41PMDelightful leading ladies but the chaos and comedy never seem to reach full throttle in this Shakespearean adaptation. Nicole Serratore reviews. The post Review: Merry Wives at the Delacorte…
SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 10:43AMI am Mildly Bitter. I feel like Min Yoongi is speaking my language Hello. I am a Min Yoongi stan now. It came fast and furious. I’m sad I did not discover his existence sooner. But I am h…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 08:39PMA veritable snowstorm of misogyny falls in this galvanizing installation performance from artist Ragnar Kjartansson. Nicole Serratore reviews. The post Review: Romantic Songs of the Patriar…
SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 07:22PMI finally left New York City to visit my family who I had not seen in person since Christmas 2018. It was pretty stressful. A plane. An airport. Unmasked people. Just so many people. A ran…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 12:23PMAn audio installation leads you on a walk through Lower Manhattan and offers an invitation to the multiverse of New York City. Nicole Serratore reviews. The post Review: Current at Arts Bro…
SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 02:07PMAt what point does this stop being a pandemic diary? At what point does this stop being a pandemic? I started to commute to my office a few days a week. It’s been good for my mental healt…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 04:50PMInterrogating twirling housewives and the performance of realness, this satirical offering from Fake Friends works best when using its own voice. Nicole Serratore reviews. The post Review:…
SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 04:49PMKristina Wong's solo show about her mutual aid efforts during the pandemic documents this moment in Asian American history. Nicole Serratore reviews. The post Review: Kristina Wong, Sweatsh…
SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 11:25AMA short theater-animated hybrid confronts the history of Commodore Matthew Perry with humor and lamentation. Nicole Serratore reviews. The post Review: All the Different Ways That Commodore…
SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 09:16PMI celebrated reaching “immunity” by taking the subway for the first time in 395 days. I also ate a muffin outside unmasked. It is a slow road for me back to public interaction. …
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 05:29PMGuillermo Calderón and his collaborators make a mini-documentary that reflects on Chilean politics, the pandemic, and where theater goes from here. Nicole Serratore reviews. The post Revie…
SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 09:26AMSpring is springing and unlike last year which was a profoundly silent time…this year New York City is full of revving motorcycles. My dearest friend from college had a baby and despite…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 03:07PMTheater in Quarantine offers scarily accurate time travel to those awkward teen years in Honestly Sincere. Nicole Serratore reviews. The post Review: Honestly Sincere at Theater in Quaranti…
SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 02:35PMIt’s been a fucking year. And I don’t know what I am supposed to tell this pandemic diary…except I didn’t really think when this started, we’d get here. I started counting the days…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 03:53PMWith intimacy and intensity, Riz Ahmed performs a personal gig-storytelling show that looks at the complexities of post-colonial identity. Nicole Serratore reviews. The post Review: The L…
SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 09:50AMI felt oddly positive this month despite it getting colder and making it harder to socialize at all. Virus numbers were going up, but the vaccine roll-out began. Sure there was an insurrecti…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 07:26PMA short film sequel to a film noir stage show set during a fictional plague now mirrors our real one. Nicole Serratore reviews. The post Review: Bloodshot: The Call at Exponential Festival…
SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 06:51PMA gathering of absent family by proxy jumpstarts an important conversation about Middle Eastern representation and humanity. Nicole Serratore reviews. The post Review: Disclaimer at Under t…
SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 11:41AMWhile the pandemic is far from over and our lives are not going to magically change as the clock strikes midnight on December 31, 2020, there is still something deeply satisfying with puttin…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 01:52PMAmir Nizar Zuabi's play of a father and son cooking with each other over Zoom is warm but cloying. Nicole Serratore reviews. The post Review: This is Who I Am at Woolly Mammoth appeared fir…
SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 02:49PMA birthday present to myself In March, I did not think I’d be having my November birthday during the pandemic. And yet, I did. Alone in my apartment. Eating a cupcake. Middle age is for …
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 10:07AMWhat is time anymore? October was a week ago and I cannot even conjure in my mind what it looked it. Looking at my calendar, I packed up my office for an office move. I went to a beer garden…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 07:23PMThe pandemic has changed me. It took away a lot of things I loved—travel, live performance, a writing career, and an overstuffed life. My life got small really quickly. It also got slower,…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 01:55PMAndrew Scott, with shades of anger, nonchalance, and self-awareness brings to life a new monologue about a narcissistic absent father and the sons he's left behind. Nicole Serratore reviews.…
SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 12:52PMAugust has been heavily defined by suddenly having homework to do. I signed up for a Korean language class and now I make a lot of flashcards and recite them walking down the street. My brai…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 03:36PMVarious theater-adjacent projects offer alternatives for reading and interpreting theater at home. Nicole Serratore explores closet dramas and their ilk. The post Theater of Your Mind: Clos…
SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 10:21AMJust to keep a ranking of the shows I've blogged about...all subject to change: 1) Crash Landing On You: Just the perfect blend of comedy, drama, and romance with a narrative that sustain…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 02:20PMIn July, I fell into FOUR shows which involved men with traumatic childhoods and the women who patiently put up with their nonsense and fall in love with them so they can heal. The woman may…
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