Melissa Rose Bernardo
Managing Editor at JCK Magazine
Theater Critic at Freelance
Theater critic. Jewelry editor. Magazine lover. Marathon runner. Michigan Wolverine. #GoBlue
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2 weeks ago |
nystagereview.com | Melissa Rose Bernardo
If a single man and a married woman fall in love, do they owe their happiness to her (soon to be ex-) husband? August Strindberg thinks so, and titled his 1889 one-act play Creditors. “Sooner or later, he’ll show up to collect the debt,” says Gustav (Liev Schreiber), the aforementioned husband, in Jen Silverman’s very loose adaptation, now onstage at the Minetta Lane Theatre and produced by Audible x Together.
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2 weeks ago |
nystagereview.com | Melissa Rose Bernardo
At the start of Goddess, the elaborate, captivating, chaotic new musical at the Public Theater, the Griotrio—aka the muses/storytellers, played by Melessie Clark, Teshomech Olenja, and Awa Sal Secka—promises to tell us the story of Marimba, the African goddess of music.
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1 month ago |
nystagereview.com | Melissa Rose Bernardo
Ever since #MeToo became a hashtag and a movement, forever altering the way we frame, discuss, and spotlight sexual abuse and harassment, ask yourself: When was the last time—if ever—you found yourself sympathizing with an aggressor? Yet here we are off-Broadway at Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes, listening to the confessions of famous author/rock-star college professor Jon Macklem, and we’re immediately charmed.
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1 month ago |
nystagereview.com | Melissa Rose Bernardo
In the author’s note to Real Women Have Curves, Josefina López reflects on the concept of “illegal aliens,” a phrase that “conjures up in our minds the image of extraterrestrial beings who are not human, who do not bleed when they’re cut, who do not cry when they feel pain, who do not have fears, dreams and hopes.
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1 month ago |
nystagereview.com | Melissa Rose Bernardo
In 2018, The Bobby Darin Story, starring Jonathan Groff, kicked off the 92nd Street Y’s Lyrics & Lyricists season, the first series produced by former American Theater Wing chair Ted Chapin. Wearing a skinny tie and sharkskin suit, Groff, plus a couple men with pomade-polished hair and women in swing dresses, sang Darin’s biggest hits and shared anecdotes about the singer-songwriter-actor.
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Tom Francis doing the sunset walk but at marie’s is the best and silliest thing I’ve seen in a while god I love this man https://t.co/YPKNswQ2zL
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Special Citations: Cole Escola for Oh, Mary! Cats: The Jellicle Ball David Greenspan for lifetime achievement
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Congratulations to the winners of this year’s New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards! Best Play: Purpose (Branden Jacobs-Jenkins) Best Musical: Maybe Happy Ending (Will Aronson and Hue Park) Best Individual Performance: Andrew Scott, Vanya Best Ensemble Performance: Liberation
