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 07:23PMSunday, 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,…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 01:55PMSunday, 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 12:52PMSaturday, 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 03:36PMMonday, August 3, 2020
Various 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 10:21AMSunday, August 2, 2020
Just 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 02:14PMFriday, 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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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 hea…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 05:25PMFriday, 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 08:51PMSunday, 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 and…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 12:11PMWednesday, 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 09:27PMSaturday, March 28, 2020
Thinking of you all during this unprecedented moment.
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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 07:00AMMonday, March 16, 2020
Rebellious and fractious, this new musical never quite pulls off its intentional tonal dissonance. Nicole Serratore reviews.
The post Review: Unknown Soldier at Playwrights Horizons appear…
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Conor McPherson’s play with music, set to the songs of Bob Dylan, tells the story of a collection of woebegone characters living
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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 08:00PMTuesday, 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 10:00PMBest 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 06:00AMFriday, 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 07:23AMTuesday, 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 08:55PMFriday, 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 05:26AMWednesday, 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
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00PMThursday, November 7, 2019
Neither a fully formed musical nor a staged concept album, this adaptation of Edmond Rostand’s play Cyrano de Bergerac, featuring music and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMFriday, October 18, 2019
Playwright 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
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:07PMWednesday, October 16, 2019
With its religious idolatry, white dress purity, red rose lust, and Sicilian superstition, Tennessee Williams’ The Rose Tattoo is an unlikely comedy.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:26AMMonday, October 7, 2019
In his Broadway debut, Slave Play, Jeremy O Harris sharply explores how white supremacy interferes with interracial relationships today. Harris plunges the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:26AMMonday, September 23, 2019
Jack Thorne’s compassionate new play, Sunday, is more experimental and complex than at first blush. With explosive dance breaks and Gatsby-style narration,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00PMMonday, September 2, 2019
UK audiences were introduced to the Public Theater’s Public Works programme through Kwame Kwei-Armah’s production of Twelfth Night at the Young Vic
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:53AMTuesday, August 13, 2019
Finnish artists Essi Rossi and Sarah Kivi set out to educate themselves and the audience on women, sex, and desire in Ejaculation:
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