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 11:38AMPhoto credit: Ben Arons"I must admit to you now. I have no plan."There's something about a heavy rain that makes you think maybe it will wash away all the pain. But the poetry of rain …
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 04:46PMI started writing this months ago...but never got around to finishing it. But it keeps coming up in conversations I have so I'm posting it now for posterity. It's a bit of messy…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 12:25PMI popped into the Tate Modern to kill some time while a friend had a meeting and blindly wandered into the Conflict, Time, Photography exhibit. And I'm glad I did. It's a moving,…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 11:41AMWhen the young Revolutionary War upstarts in a tavern shout "Showtime" and burst into rap, it's a massive collapsing of history and culture and says those rowdy upstarts who dance through …
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 01:05PMThe musical Brooklynite breaks the superhero mold — Composer Peter Lerman was working on a movie with director Michael Mayer when Mayer offered him an unexpected opportunity. Would Ler…
SOURCE: TDF at 09:00AMThe last thing I thought I would feel at Pretty Filthy, the Civilians's new musical about the porn industry, was kinship. As a newbie to the world of internet content, I wanted to ra…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 03:30PMWith the exactitude and agony of flaying skin off of another human, Winners and Losers goes to work on the layers of humanity, painfully peeling back privilege, class, education, experienc…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 10:49PMI once met a man who just kept saying the word "wackadoo." This thought popped into my mind as I was watching Kate Benson's colorful, kooky, and truly wackadoo play A Beautiful Day in …
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 12:30PM"Your family's the only place where time is dense...where age is compressed." Photo by Hunter CanningA family keeping secrets is not new territory in the theater but Brian Watkins's Wyoming…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 09:56AMAndrew Schneider's show YOUARENOWHERE has closed but we hope it gets a second life in New York. I've also maybe promised most of the United Kingdom that it would probably tour there ev…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 11:14PMThe rest of the critics are going to talk about Honeymoon in Vegas as a classic boy-meets-girl, boy-loses-girl, boy-tries-to-get-girl-back story. They'll rightly celebrate the efferves…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 11:15PM"Time really does just go away."Early on in YOUARENOWHERE I was mad that it was going to end. It had hardly begun and already I was lamenting that at some point I would have to leave this d…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 11:33PM"Two remarkable eyes. We stared into each other's eyes without moving."There's something incredibly liberating about durational installation work. Rather than the tight focus required…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 11:41AMThe APAP conference has put together some dynamic and diverse panels showcasing artists who are breaking down barriers, working across genres, and using art to bring the world together.&nb…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 11:08PMYou may be wondering why suddenly in January you start hearing about all sorts of small theater festivals around New York City. The reason these festivals exist is because of the Ass…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 10:06PMThe black lake is so inviting. Filling the entirety of the Park Avenue Armory's drill hall with a slick black pool of water, with two pianos in the middle, Douglas Gordan's insta…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 07:46PMLimited edition Churlish Meg originalSomewhere between Bedford-Nostrand and Flushing Avenue I'm crying. It's the G train so literally no one cares. A girl cries on the G train every twenty…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 12:13AMI enjoyed another year of UK theater-going. I saw almost 50 shows out of the country. From what I saw, these were my favorites: 1. A View From the Bridge (Young Vic):…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 03:36PMYear-end self-reflection is a bitch. Looking over my theatrical year I saw a lot of high-profile works that did not quite live up to their potential and discovered some new artists I had not…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 11:13AM"I'm really terrible at being a person."Samuel Hunter again manages to find that painful spot in your heart where longing, grief, love, and disappointment lie and reveals it ever so gently t…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 11:13AM"What's sacred to you?" Ayad Akhtar's new play is a sly devil. From its opening moments in a windowless cement block cell, you may think this is a play about torture or jihadists or …
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 04:14PMWhen the Forest Fringe microfestival descended on New York in October something was missing. It was not just the amazing cheese soup I ate at the Drill Hall cafe at this year's Forest …
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 01:16PMWith breathing tableaux and an emotionally wrought story, this John Adams-Alice Goodman opera delivers a punch to the gut. I'm not sure I've experienced a more chilling theatrical experien…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 12:56PM"We're not a family that talks."Samuel D. Hunter has become the poet laureate playwright of the washed-up and emotionally crippled. His past Idaho plays (A Brand New Boise, The Whale, The F…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 12:31PMSure everyone is all focused on Jeremy Jordan being cast in the Parade concert today or still recovering from yesterday's Encores' Off-Broadway series....But I'm pretty excited about this ca…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 05:40PMHaving seen David Greig's play about faith and violence in Edinburgh in 2013 I was curious how they would cast the play when it was scheduled to play New York Theatre Workshop. Ramin G…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 03:20PMBearing in mind I saw the first preview of City of Angels and could still smell the paint on the set, I can't really "review" it. Things may change between when I as the show and it is ope…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 01:41PMI wish I had just bought dinner at a table next to Alessandro Nivola rather than payed a small fortune to see this play. At least in that instance I'd have had a really nice meal and …
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 12:17PMI've been shit about cross-posting my writing from other places on the internet. But had a discussion with John Murphy about Daniel Kitson's new storytelling show A Show for Christmas …
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 01:03PMAs the swirling cast tore off pieces of the balladeer's clothes and transformed him, I thought Jamie Lloyd's production of Assassins had its claws in me. It was most unexpected since w…
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