The Bitter Poet: Looking For Love In All The Wrong Black Box Performance Spaces

Tickets: $10/$5 students/seniors

The Bitter Poet (written and performed by Kevin Draine) “Looking For Love…” was selected for “Best Of Festival” at the Hyde Park Theatre’s FronteraFest ’10 in Austin, TX.  Also selected for the Piccolo Spoleto Fringe Festival in Charleston, SC. In New York City, The Bitter Poet has performed for over a decade in venues including:  Dixon Place; PS122 Schoolhouse Rocks; The P.I.T.; La MaMa; Theatre For The New City; Bowery Poetry Club; Galapagos Art Space; Magnet Improv Theatre; Arlene’s Grocery; E.A.T.’s One Man Talking Festival; The Brick; Jalopy Theatre and many others. More at: www.thebitterpoet.com 

"The Bitter Poet blew the audience away!" Austinist  

"The Bitter Poet is on the mark with his observations of human life and he's as funny as he is astute.” Charleston City Paper

“If I haven’t used the word ‘wild’ yet, I should have, because that’s what this show is.  The Bitter Poet has been described as ‘The Doors meet Jack Nicholson.’  I’d say that quote is fairly accurate, but I’d like to one-up that by saying this act is more like
‘The Doors meet Richard Pryor.’  And that’s certainly a show worth seeing, as well as a CD worth owning.” New York Resident

“A spoken-word rock extravaganza!” The Patriot-News

“The Bitter Poet persona is high energy…  He is undeniably a quirky figure who demands attention.  And not just because he is prone to scream at the top of his lungs, rip off his shirt, and dance about like a poster boy for the Saint Vitus Dance.  It’s not every entertainer who can dream up a sordid story about a rapacious woman obsessed with hot pokers and then drop in, midway, ‘I suddenly realized we might not be as happy together as I had dreamed in the cab that night.’” Back Stage West, LA

“…a humorous, cynical and explicitly adult treatment of sex-and-ego issues… and a whole lot more!”  The Aquarian, NJ

Kevin Draine The Bitter Poet (written and performed by Kevin Draine) – “Looking For Love…” was selected for “Best Of Festival” at the Hyde Park Theatre’s FronteraFest ’10 in Austin, TX. Also selected for the Piccolo Spoleto Fringe Festival in Charleston, SC. In New York City, The Bitter Poet has performed for over a decade in venues including: Dixon Place; PS122 Schoolhouse Rocks; The P.I.T.; La MaMa; Theatre For The New City; Bowery Poetry Club; Galapagos Art Space; Magnet Improv Theatre; Arlene Grocery; E.A.T.’s One Man Talking Festival; The Brick; Jalopy Theatre and many others. More at: www.thebitterpoet.com Kevin Draine is an actor and writer living in New York City. He has appeared in off-off broadway productions at theatres including
Ensemble Studio Theatre. Film: the cult classics, Puddle Cruiser and Final Rinse. TV: Law & Order; Guiding Light; As The World Turns. He is the voice of Animal Planet’s Dogs 101/Cats 101/ Pets 101. Training: Uta Hagen; Wynn Handman; Upright Citizens Brigade.

"He could have all the secrets of the universe built into the nooks and crannies of his poetic english muffin of darkness, but transmission is an important part of the experience of learning, so take the opportunity to take in The Bitter Poet while you still can."

"Each song is a good story in its own right...."

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