I 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…
Linked From Mildly Bitter's Musings at 07:26PMWhile 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…
Linked From Mildly Bitter's Musings at 01:52PMA 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 …
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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,…
Linked From Mildly Bitter's Musings at 01:55PMAugust 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…
Linked From Mildly Bitter's Musings at 03:36PMJust 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From Mildly Bitter's Musings at 02:14PMJuly was packed with personal self-care. I found a new therapist and said goodbye to my old elliptical machine. I hilariously tried to stop the elliptical from squeaking with a series of lub…
Linked From Mildly Bitter's Musings at 02:14PMI’ve felt quite precious about some of the shows I’ve been watching during the pandemic. Something about the vulnerability of the characters has made me protective of them. Maybe my hea…
Linked From Mildly Bitter's Musings at 05:25PMThings I learned watching K-dramas My TV viewing in May was all over the map. This is probably a sign I'm not doing as well as I think I am doing. My brain pinging from place to place as I…
Linked From Mildly Bitter's Musings at 08:51PMThe one day I went for a big walk. If March was a month of bittersweet longing (served up by Crash Landing On You) then April, when I started watching Mr. Sunshine, was more serious and…
Linked From Mildly Bitter's Musings at 12:11PMTalking someone into watching Crash Landing On You March was the hardest month of the pandemic for me. Someone in my building was hospitalized with COVID-19 very early in the month. From …
Linked From Mildly Bitter's Musings at 09:27PMAfter nearly giving up playwriting altogether, Martyna Majok went on to win a Pulitzer for Cost of Living. She tells Nicole Serratore
Linked From The Stage Registration at 07:00AMConor McPherson’s play with music, set to the songs of Bob Dylan, tells the story of a collection of woebegone characters living
Linked From The Stage Registration at 10:00PMControversies have dogged Ivo van Hove’s production of West Side Story, surrounding injuries, protests, and bold cuts to the material (the dropping
Linked From The Stage Registration at 08:00PMAlice Birch’s beautiful, aching play depends on the careful delivery of synchronised and overlapping dialogue from characters in three time periods who
Linked From The Stage Registration at 10:00PMBest known for its revivals of musicals and the classics, the not-for-profit Roundabout Theatre Company branched out into new work more than
Linked From The Stage Registration at 06:00AMDirector and adaptor Simon Stone’s contemporary take on Medea shrinks the tragedy to such an individual level that the deeper questions surrounding
Linked From The Stage Registration at 07:23AMBy the numbers for 2019:174 shows seen (down from 203 last year)27% of work seen by artists of color (up from 25% last year) 62% of work seen by underrepresented artists (up from 50% last ye…
Linked From Mildly Bitter's Musings at 08:55PMInspired by Alanis Morissette’s debut album, this new musical uses her music to explore serious subjects – rape, addiction, transracial adoption and
Linked From The Stage Registration at 05:26AMJack Thorne’s adaptation of A Christmas Carol does not reinvent Charles Dickens’ festive fable but it delivers an enjoyable holiday experience complete
Linked From The Stage Registration at 10:00PMNeither a fully formed musical nor a staged concept album, this adaptation of Edmond Rostand’s play Cyrano de Bergerac, featuring music and
Linked From The Stage Registration at 07:01PMPlaywright Adam Rapp’s Broadway debut, The Sound Inside, is a slippery mystery featuring a subtle central performance from Mary-Louise Parker. Parker plays Bella, a
Linked From The Stage Registration at 01:07PMWith its religious idolatry, white dress purity, red rose lust, and Sicilian superstition, Tennessee Williams’ The Rose Tattoo is an unlikely comedy.
Linked From The Stage Registration at 11:26AMIn his Broadway debut, Slave Play, Jeremy O Harris sharply explores how white supremacy interferes with interracial relationships today. Harris plunges the
Linked From The Stage Registration at 11:26AMJack Thorne’s compassionate new play, Sunday, is more experimental and complex than at first blush. With explosive dance breaks and Gatsby-style narration,
Linked From The Stage Registration at 10:00PMUK audiences were introduced to the Public Theater’s Public Works programme through Kwame Kwei-Armah’s production of Twelfth Night at the Young Vic
Linked From The Stage Registration at 06:53AMFinnish artists Essi Rossi and Sarah Kivi set out to educate themselves and the audience on women, sex, and desire in Ejaculation:
Linked From The Stage Registration at 08:33AMWatching Glory Die makes clear from its title where it is going to go. Based on a true story about a young
Linked From The Stage Registration at 05:32AMGetting a brief glimpse of the shattered, abused child within the aggressive adult woman standing before us is a remarkable achievement of
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