Friday, April 24, 2015
If you have somehow found yourself here, good, but we just wanted to make sure you know that we have entered our next step of evolution and are now live at www.socal.bitter-lemons.com. Huzza…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 01:31PMThursday, April 23, 2015
David Elzer takes a look at the numbers going forward… 3RD GRADE MATH with DAVID ELZER! So, truth be told, I never made it past High School, lots of reasons why that was the case, but …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 02:12PMWednesday, April 22, 2015
This is real, as reported by Roger K. Weiss, who is a part of the ZJU troupe and who currently has a show entitled Witch Ball running at the theater. I didn’t see the actual airing of …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 11:38PMAs expected, the reactions to Equity’s latest move are coming from all corners and at a rapid pace. This from the NY Times ArtsBeat section: “We’re very disappointed that Equity ac…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 05:13PMTuesday, April 21, 2015
Here you go. There are some good ideas here but I expect they will get lost in the outrage. More later when we all have time to digest. From the Desk of Actors’ Equity Association Ther…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 10:18PMThat’s right I just wrote about myself in the third person. You know why? Because I have to. Not because I can. Thought that’s important too. So here’s the skinny: theyR…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 04:14PMBoth LA Times and CBS News have stepped into the fray in anticipation of the decision by the Equity Council which is basically meeting right now. First this from the Times: Some opponents of…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 03:20PMMonday, April 20, 2015
The Leaders of the Pro99 movement say, stay calm and… Clearly Jon Mullich has far too much time on his hands. Which we are all very thankful for.
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 11:06PMWell, well, well… Who will be next in line for the impossible job? And more importantly, who will wear the mirrored jacket at the Ovations? Here’s the presser on this not-so-surp…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 10:35PMOur very own Kevin Delin jumps ship to Stage Raw for this one in a piece called Deceit by Statistics – hey we’ve always been about the individual voice here at the Lemon so it…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 04:23PMIn the good news department… The Hollywood Fringe Festival (www.hollywoodfringe.org) announced today that its parent company, Hatchery Arts, will receive a $50,000 grant awarded by the…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 02:14PMA fairly even-handed rendering from Michael Paulson over the NY Times. Here’s a couple tidbits from the article which has appeared in the print edition this morning ON THE FRONT PAGE: …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 01:42PMNot a lot new here, as a matter of fact this strikes me as the stance that the Review Committee has taken for many years now. Without effect. Obviously it carries more import with the approa…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 01:26PMFriday, April 17, 2015
Here’s what. In the ensuing 4 to 5 days leading up to the prescribed meet and vote by the AEA National Council, the leadership should continue to show bold leadership and come out to L…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 04:01PMHere you go, LemonHeads. We got our Mandate. 66% Against, 34% In Favor of the AEA 99 Seat Proposals. Where’s that “silent majority” now? The ballots for the 99-Seat Proposa…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 03:08PMAs the Los Angeles based Actors’ Equity membership holds its collective breath in anticipation of the release of the referendum voting results today (estimated to occur within the next…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 02:03PMThursday, April 16, 2015
FEELING THE MAGIC, TOUCHING THE AUDIENCE AND FEEDING THE TROLLS… By Trevor Allen “Cocaine, Violence, an Orgy and Other Tales of Playing Pluto at Disneyland” ran the headline on the LA …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 06:22PMYes, I’ve actually been SEEING some theater over the last couple weeks and not just TALKING about theater. Hard to believe. There are loads of good shows out there, here are some brief…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 03:34PMThe inter-waves are filthy with ‘em! Well, only two actually. But they’re good. This one has both Rebecca Metz and Dakin Matthews in it. And this one has the venerable Steven Lei…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 01:49PMSaw this on the Facebook wire from AEA member, Steven Klein. It’s from his blog and is titled, AEA Says I’ve Sinned. It is most relevant – as you will see – to the cu…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 01:00PMWednesday, April 15, 2015
Good news! Just got the inside scoop on this puppy. Sorta. They announced it at the last town hall which I missed because of my scattershot lifestyle. Now I’m a tent guy, but this is a…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 12:10AMTuesday, April 14, 2015
Good stuff from A-Burn. Shit I’ve been saying this since the whole damn thing began. Ultimately, the landscape will be changed, but the Los Angeles Theater Community will be stronger, …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 08:10PMThe Group Rep gets their funny on with AEA’s 99 Seat Proposals. Enjoy. Hat tip, the lovely and talented and beautiful and squeezable – er – Jana Wimer.
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 06:54PMYes, that’s a rhetorical question. The answer of course is: they are afraid of anything that might undermine their concentrated campaign to get rid of the Los Angeles’ 99 Seat Pl…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 06:02PMHere’s the second part of the two-parter rebuttal from Dakin Matthews against the AEA 99 Seat Proposals, the first part you can read here. Once again, it’s long and dense, but it…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 04:50PMBurglars of Hamm and Sacred Fools’ The Behavior of Broadus was the big winner in the first ever Stage Raw Awards, and they also garnered a few Rawees for their production of Taste as w…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 03:57PMMonday, April 13, 2015
This series of questions and (some) answers comes from the Pro99 and anti-AEA-99-Seat-Proposal NYC advocates, TheatReHab and their Facebook offshoot, NY Actors Standing in Solidarity to U…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 06:47PMA very thorough, personal and well-thought-out article from playwright Jonathan Caren over at HowlRound entitled Playwrights in LA and the Whole 99-Seat Thing, puts it poignantly from the PO…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 04:43PMYeah, I needed to take a wee break from all this and did so this weekend, just enjoyed the weather, hanging with my boy and my main squeeze, but there’s much to catch up on. So here we…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 04:23PMI think we all need a little party to blow off some steam. Well this is gonna be it. If you haven’t gotten your tickets yet, there’s still time. Hell, I might actually even clea…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 03:54PM 
