Wednesday, February 24, 2021
With intimacy and intensity, Riz Ahmed performs a personal gig-storytelling show that looks at the complexities of post-colonial identity. Nicole Serratore reviews.
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SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 09:50AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 7, 2021
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…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 07:26PM[SHARE]Monday, February 1, 2021
A short film sequel to a film noir stage show set during a fictional plague now mirrors our real one. Nicole Serratore reviews.
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A gathering of absent family by proxy jumpstarts an important conversation about Middle Eastern representation and humanity. Nicole Serratore reviews.
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While 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 01:52PM[SHARE]Monday, December 14, 2020
Amir Nizar Zuabi's play of a father and son cooking with each other over Zoom is warm but cloying. Nicole Serratore reviews.
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SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 02:49PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 9, 2020
A 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 su…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 10:07AM[SHARE]Monday, November 9, 2020
What 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 07:23PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 4, 2020
The 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, q…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 01:55PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 6, 2020
Andrew 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 12:52PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 29, 2020
August 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 03:36PM[SHARE]Monday, August 3, 2020
Various theater-adjacent projects offer alternatives for reading and interpreting theater at home. Nicole Serratore explores closet dramas and their ilk.
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SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 10:21AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 2, 2020
Just to keep a ranking of the shows I've blogged about...all subject to change:Â
1) Crash Landing On You:Â Just the perfect blend of comedy, drama, and romance with a narrative that sus…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 02:20PM[SHARE]In 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…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 02:14PM[SHARE]July 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…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 02:14PM[SHARE]Friday, July 31, 2020
A Zoom show about listening and distance offers moments of connection, with a surprise appearance of a cat. Nicole Serratore reviews.
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SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 07:33PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 28, 2020
I'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 heart t…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 05:25PM[SHARE]Friday, June 12, 2020
Things 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…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 08:51PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 31, 2020
The 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…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 12:11PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 27, 2020
Talking 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 …
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 09:27PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 28, 2020
Thinking of you all during this unprecedented moment.
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SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 06:11PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 17, 2020
After nearly giving up playwriting altogether, Martyna Majok went on to win a Pulitzer for Cost of Living. She tells Nicole Serratore
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AM[SHARE]Monday, March 16, 2020
Rebellious and fractious, this new musical never quite pulls off its intentional tonal dissonance. Nicole Serratore reviews.
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SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 09:05PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 5, 2020
Conor McPherson's play with music, set to the songs of Bob Dylan, tells the story of a collection of woebegone characters living
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 20, 2020
Controversies have dogged Ivo van Hove's production of West Side Story, surrounding injuries, protests, and bold cuts to the material (the dropping
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 18, 2020
Alice Birch's beautiful, aching play depends on the careful delivery of synchronised and overlapping dialogue from characters in three time periods who
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00PM[SHARE]Best known for its revivals of musicals and the classics, the not-for-profit Roundabout Theatre Company branched out into new work more than
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AM[SHARE]Friday, January 31, 2020
Director and adaptor Simon Stone's contemporary take on Medea shrinks the tragedy to such an individual level that the deeper questions surrounding
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:23AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 7, 2020
By 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…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 08:55PM[SHARE]Friday, December 6, 2019
Inspired by Alanis Morissette's debut album, this new musical uses her music to explore serious subjects " rape, addiction, transracial adoption and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:26AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 20, 2019
Jack Thorne's adaptation of A Christmas Carol does not reinvent Charles Dickens' festive fable but it delivers an enjoyable holiday experience complete
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