Saturday, 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 12:30PMThursday, January 22, 2015
"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 09:56AMSunday, January 18, 2015
Andrew 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 11:14PMThursday, January 15, 2015
The 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 11:15PMWednesday, January 14, 2015
"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 11:33PMTuesday, January 13, 2015
"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 11:41AMSaturday, January 10, 2015
The 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 10:06PMSunday, January 4, 2015
The 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 07:46PMTuesday, December 30, 2014
Limited 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 12:13AMMonday, December 29, 2014
I 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 11:13AMSunday, December 28, 2014
"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 04:14PMSaturday, December 27, 2014
When 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 12:56PMTuesday, December 23, 2014
"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 12:31PMTuesday, December 16, 2014
Sure 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 05:40PMMonday, December 15, 2014
Having 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 12:17PMFriday, December 12, 2014
I'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 01:03PMWednesday, December 10, 2014
As 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…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 09:21AMSunday, December 7, 2014
I'm leaving London today. I feel like I've been away forever. The world has been in an uproar and I haven't even had a TV to see it unfold. And when things are happen at home, a…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 06:25AMThursday, November 20, 2014
Daniel Kitson's two person play Tree will have its London premiere at the Old Vic Theatre in January 2015. Starring Kitson and comedian Tim Key, the work originally premiered in Manche…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 06:17PMI thought I had reached a breaking point this year with the voices of straight, white male voices in theater. But when it's Young Jean Lee doing the curating of those voices I'm will…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 04:35PM"Which, did no one anywhere on the R and D chain bring up how stupid it is to call a drone 'Icarus'?" Shifting tone between humor and the serious business of international espionage, Mac Ro…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 12:21PMMonday, November 17, 2014
If you went to see Jez Butterworth's The River on Broadway because I raved about the London production, well then I'm really sorry. It has been the rare experience for me to see a play…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 12:10PM 
