Rules to Live By New York Performances

“Rules to Live By” arrives at The Bell House as a rock/pop set built around the small codes people carry into adult life. Featured performer Jimmy Chin delivers the material with a storyteller’s cadence, letting scenes and refrains do the work rather than leaning on spectacle. In a city where personal doctrine is often shaped in public—on late-night trains, in crowded rooms—the show lands as a modest study of how values get revised. Its best moments treat advice as something negotiated, not inherited.