Monday, December 14, 2015
Cynthia Erivo is a hurricane of hurt on Broadway.
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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 11:38AMTuesday, March 24, 2015
Photo 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 04:46PMSaturday, February 28, 2015
I 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 11:41AMTuesday, February 17, 2015
When 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 01:05PMMonday, February 16, 2015
The 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 09:00AMMonday, February 9, 2015
The 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 03:30PMFriday, January 30, 2015
With 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 10:49PMSaturday, January 24, 2015
I 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 
