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Posts by Author Archives: Billy McEntee

Billy McEntee has been fortunate to work for arts non-profits in Boston, Denver, Berkeley, and now New York. His writing has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Vanity Fair, American Theatre, HowlRound, Observer, and others. He's usually getting wine at Dandelion or eating cookies at Archestratus.

Modernizing Mozart: LoftOpera to Present a Saucy “Così fan tutte”

by Billy McEntee August 31, 2016September 10, 2016

Was Mozart a feminist? Reading Così fan tutte, where two young sisters are duped into betraying their fiancés in a seedy ploy to prove all ladies are infidels, it might not appear so. […]

OddFellows Ice Cream Co. Has it All: Strange, Savory, and Sweet

by Billy McEntee July 26, 2016July 26, 2016

As co-founder Mohan Kumar tells it, OddFellows in Williamsburg has an origin as sweet as its ice cream. “When Holiday was pregnant Sam [Mason] brought over ice cream, and she loved […]

Funky Plot and Savory Performances for Shakespeare in the Theater’s “Cymbeline”

by Billy McEntee July 22, 2016July 23, 2016

Cymbeline is tonally ambiguous, dramaturgically elusive. This is no weakness of Shakespeare’s so-called tragedy, but it stands out in being one that ends in reunions and discoveries instead of wars […]

North Brooklyn’s Trans Theatre Fest: Toxic and Heartfelt “Love Letters to Nobody, or Insignificant Others”

by Billy McEntee June 23, 2016June 23, 2016

“Daily reminder: you’re spectacular.” It’s refreshing when this quote returns in Maybe Burke’s one-person, self-explorative show. For sixty minutes Burke shares personal accounts both harrowing and poignant, so this motif, delivered […]

Opera In Bushwick: Not Your Grandma’s Rossini

by Billy McEntee May 31, 2016May 31, 2016

Aerial stunts, fake fruit by the thousand, and a warehouse. Throw classical music in the mix and you won’t find yourself at the Met, but you will have a rager […]

Add Salchipapas at Archestratus to Your Greenpoint Bucket List

by Billy McEntee May 3, 2016June 15, 2016

Perhaps the only word more fun to say than Archestratus, the cookbook store that creates community and serves Sicilian sweets, is Salchipapas. Not just the name of street food common […]

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