A mash-up of storytelling, stand-up and subversive cabaret, STAY LOST looks to the explosive 1990’s New York solo performance scene for inspiration. Echoes of Eric Bogosian, Sandra Bernhart, Whoopi Goldberg and art star Penny Arcade pulse through Mills’ hilariously provocative monologues and surprising song interpretations. (Expect individual takes on the blues, classic American songbook, indie pop, gospel and spooky
folk songs.)

In STAY LOST, Mills explores uproarious yet uncomfortable themes of contemporary life – broken dreams, disappearing freedoms, casual violence and the tyranny of empty social media culture. All come in for ruthless skewering by Mills’ signature, coruscating wit. His own flaws – shared
by so many of his gay contemporaries – receive the harshest critique of all, a well-deserved, rip-roaring roasting just as Gen X assumes cultural dominance.

Finally, in STAY LOST, Mills strives to make sense of this terrifying moment. How do we mourn what we’re losing? How do we celebrate what’s coming? STAY LOST is ultimately, a powerful and hilarious tribute to resilience and perseverance an urgent plea to ‘keep going’.

In February 2023, David Mills arrived back in New York after more than two decades in the UK where he honed his stand-up chops on the legendary London comedy circuit along with multiple appearances at the Edinburgh Fringe. Since 2014, Mills had been coming to NYC to perform at Pangea but it wasn’t until his 2019 show ‘Bitter Endings’ that his distinctive brand of humour and pathos broke through to a broader audience.

In Broadway World, Stephen Mosher called ‘Bitter Endings’ ‘…blisteringly smart, achingly funny, uncompromisingly bold,
staunchly unapologetic, blissfully original and completely, totally, absolutely enjoyable. One of the most flawlessly constructed nights of comedy one is likely to see.’

Mills returned in 2023 for a sell-out run of his show ‘glamour + despair’ of which Gerry Geddes of the revered cabaret website, bistroaward.com, said ‘…a remarkable show that demands to be seen. This is the beginning of a major career.’

Even Penny Arcade, doyenne of the downtown performance art scene, called Mills ‘Debonair, urbane, sophisticated and outrageously funny!’

David Mills’ STAY LOST plays at Pangea, the downtown bohemian hotspot, on the following dates: Sept 21 & 28 @ 9:30PM / Oct 19 & 26 @ 9:30PM / Nov 16 & 23 @ 9:30PM

Follow David Mills on Instagram @DavidMillsDept and Substack: https://qualitytimewithdavidmills.substack.com

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