Monday, April 4, 2016
Marin Ireland & Morgan Spector. Photo by Sandra CoudertMartyna Majok's new play Ironbound slyly lures you in with a well-set snare. She gets you comfortable watching a couple fight…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 05:17PMSunday, January 24, 2016
I didn't know how much I needed Rey until I met her. Image: Lucasfilm I'm one of those children of the Return of the Jedi generation--in the sweet-spot of Kenner marketi…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 02:10PMTuesday, January 19, 2016
Nicole Serratore reviews a classic Jacobean tragicomedy with "a killer lead performance".
The post The Changeling appeared first on Exeunt Magazine NYC.
SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 11:42AMWednesday, December 30, 2015
It’s no secret I love plays. But it certainly comes out more when you see what shows I prioritize when I travel. I did see some musicals but I didn't like them. This Top …
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 11:11AMMonday, December 28, 2015
Another year of broken promises to myself. An effort to see less theater this year resulted in me seeing 60 more shows over last year. New personal record: 265 shows. Eeeek. Stop…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 10:11AMMonday, December 21, 2015
Watching artists you love make a show that fails to achieve lift-off can be rough. You know they have the talent and vision, but after two hours of waiting for it to appear you realize…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 12:34PMThursday, December 17, 2015
Anne Washburn loves her meta-narratives and with 10 Out of 12 we watch a play about tech-ing a play. Although this is for all intents and purposes a "backstage" drama that is at times wicked…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 01:11PMTuesday, December 15, 2015
Photo by Sanne PeperAs mother and son wrap their hands around each other’s hands, there is kindness, understanding, frustration, control, and acquiescence. Sam Gold’s minimalist pr…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 12:46PMMonday, December 14, 2015
Cynthia Erivo is a hurricane of hurt on Broadway.
The post The Color Purple appeared first on Exeunt Magazine NYC.
SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 04:57AMSunday, December 13, 2015
In a massive room full of people seated in hammock chairs wearing noise-canceling headphones, you could still hear coughing. I gave up counting the coughs after 40 but a healthy remind…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 07:36PMMonday, November 2, 2015
I reviewed only a handful of the 70 shows I saw at EdFringe. So here are my links to those reviews and just a few notes on works I didn't get to write about otherwise (and I have a separate …
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 12:20PMSomehow this review got left in my drafts...so I'm reviving it now...with some spoilers. Annie Baker peels back the layers of a relationship in crisis in her new play, John. With an eerie …
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 12:09PMTuesday, October 6, 2015
Scottish poet, storyteller, and artist Ross Sutherland arrives in New York this week with a show called Stand By for Tape Back-Up. It's a meditation on grief, nostalgia, and the odd bi…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 11:46AMThursday, September 17, 2015
Some thoughts on Forest Fringe 2015. Another year of exciting work by artists who were largely new to me. Week OneThis Is Not A Magic Show: Vincent Gambini’s sleight of hand show like his…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 12:10PMWednesday, September 9, 2015
Walking out of I Heart Catherine Pistachio, my first thought was “What the ever-loving fuck was that?” My second thought was, “Damn, I really didn’t want that to end.” Lee Mattins…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 02:05PMSaturday, August 8, 2015
Signature Theatre hosted a short pre-show talk with Annie Baker and Sam Gold to discuss their artistic collaboration. This coincides with the fifth show they are working on together, J…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 03:19PMFriday, July 31, 2015
There is toe-tapping and foot-stomping in Daniel Fish’s production of Oklahoma! but with the first crash of electric guitar reverb in the show, it quickly becomes apparent this iteration i…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 06:40PMWednesday, June 24, 2015
Download file It may feel like the only show actually happening in July is a little scrappy musical called Hamilton but we found a lot of other shows worth your time. We’ve got some …
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 01:00AMTuesday, May 26, 2015
With perhaps a nod too far into camp at times the Red Bull Theater production of John Ford's famous, bloody, incest tragedy still managed to show the hypocrisy and vanity of men, the power o…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 02:11PMFriday, May 22, 2015
Self portrait, 1985Ink on boardCollection of Harvard University© The Al Hirschfeld Foundation.www.AlHirschfeldFoundation.orgAl Hirschfeld's career as the dynamic, visual chronicler of the A…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 11:06AMMonday, May 11, 2015
Perhaps a week after visiting Berlin was the wrong time to see a "new" American musical set in post-war Europe. I had just been served a healthy dose of post-war European history from …
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 05:29PMTuesday, May 5, 2015
Where do addicts, hookers, strippers, and fuck ups end up? In New Orleans, apparently the answer is the Hummingbird Motel on Airline Highway. A crumbling rundown motel that like all its de…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 03:03PMSunday, April 19, 2015
As furniture disappeared into dark chasms and gaping holes remained on stage, I felt a deep sense of anguish. This re-staging of Fun Home on Broadway had cracked the story open for me …
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 07:04PMTuesday, April 14, 2015
The voice in the headphones, Heather, tells us to have a dance party and shake our booty. In the midst of Nolita I'm disco dancing to a terrible disco track. Public dancing is no…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 09:50AMSunday, April 12, 2015
Photo by Carol RoseggAs the room shakes and the light fixture swings like a pendulum, experiencing an earthquake in Fukushima makes the anxiety of living in the nuclear age quite acute. …
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 10:57PMSufjan Stevens wiped tears from his eyes as he moved his way through song after song about his mother and her death. His show at the Beacon Theatre this week corresponded with his recent&n…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 09:17PMTuesday, April 7, 2015
Max Baker's play Live from the Surface of the Moon fumbles its way through feminism and sexism on the cusp of 1970. What could have been an interesting window into the relationships be…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 08:35PM"Double suicide and reanimation creates a bond that is tough to break."--JulietMelody Bates's play R&J&Z (Romeo & Juliet & Zombies) starts from where Shakespeare left off. As…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 12:30PMFriday, April 3, 2015
As I watched David Greenspan's dreamy memory play about gay identity through the years, a film actress from days of yore, and the challenges of ever really knowing anything from the past, I …
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 10:13PMLaura Eason (Sex with Strangers) writes lively and vibrant characters and I always want to spend more time with them. She has assembled an array of characters with quirks and passions in T…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 04:47PMSaturday, March 28, 2015
Giving a stage this large over to flex dancers at the Park Avenue Armory feels like a radical act. The scale and context of the production of FLEXN can't be ignored. We're in a storied build…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 11:38AM 
