Sunday, March 1, 2015
Yes, I used “outsider” twice, cuz this come from a person who is clearly not that familiar with the ecology of Los Angeles Theater – and it shows – but Isaac Butler i…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 07:05PMIt’s a veritable cavalcade of celebrities in support of LA’s 99 Seat Theater scene:
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 06:21PMThings remain heated over at Bigcheap and John Flynn, acting as a rep for the original plaintiffs in the Settlement Agreement, decided it was time to respond in an open letter to AEA Western…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 01:13PMSome more good stuff from A-Burn, including some deserved criticism for a company still coming into its own, as well as some well-deserved praise for a company on the cusp of greatness. THE …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 10:00AMFriday, February 27, 2015
In honor of the passing of Leonard Nimoy, who will forever be remembered as Star Trek’s Mr. Spock, I give you his rendition of “Bilbo Baggins” Rest in peace, sir. And thank…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 03:20PMFrankly, this what Equity should have done. But it seems clear that what they want to do first is get rid of the 99 Seat Plan. After that, it appears, they may be wiling to compromise and pe…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 03:04PMYes, the latest reporting from LA Times reporter Mike Boehm is clearly LA-centric – as it should be considering this is after all the LA Times and this is after all EXCLUSIVELY A LOS …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 02:29PMSaw this show The Temptation of St. Antony by Four Larks, last week and while it has some problems – details I’ll get into in another post – it is well worth checking out, …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 02:11PMWe’ve highlighted many stories from the big boys like American Theatre and Backstage and the LA Times and the LADCC and TPLLA and The Hollywood Reporter and Playbill (Playbill?), and…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 01:53PMThursday, February 26, 2015
That’s right, mofos, about freaking time! Of course that’s not all they do in their latest Offscript podcast called The Tiers and Tears Edition over at the American Theatre site,…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 06:31PMAnd this appears to be the money quote right here from the statement: The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle urges all stakeholders in the cultural, civic and economic health of the region to …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 03:11AMWednesday, February 25, 2015
I was guided to this exchange on Facebook by an interested party who understood the incendiary nature of it and why it would appeal to us at Bitter Lemons and to the people that read Bitter…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 03:26AMTuesday, February 24, 2015
Hey, it’s up $363 from last year’s tally! For the last few years I’ve been reporting these findings from Equity’s end-of-year financial summaries, gotten a little beh…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 01:59PMRecently there have been articles from Backstage, the LA Times, American Theater Magazine and now Playbill and The Hollywood Reporter on the 99 Seat Debate, and there definitely seems to be …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 01:34PMMonday, February 23, 2015
Been busy lately, but got a chance to read this humdinger from J-Beers. Dude is writing some of the best theater criticism in SoCal at the moment. This show sounds pretty good too. HereR…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 10:21PMThis from the TPLLA/intimate site in response to the town hall that took place on Saturday: The Theatrical Producers League of Los Angeles/Intimate (TPLLA/Intimate) does not support the prom…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 09:29PMThis from David Melville today… I think AEA’s proposal is pretty hardline but at the end of the day I can see why they want to make these changes. The three tier approach will al…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 03:43PMThis is going to be a very piecemeal post as I’m getting ready to hustle out to the membership meeting, but did want to highlight a few things from the Saturday town hall sponsored by …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 03:37PMAgain, not great reporting in my book from Mike Boehm at the LA Times, but hey, this needs to be continuously in the public’s eye, so ultimately it’s good that the Times at least…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 02:58PMSunday, February 22, 2015
Travis Michael Holder upchucks a free associative Beat poem in response to Equity’s proposals: Oh, Equity, how incredibly deluded you are. Wouldn’t it be nice if everyone who act…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 03:19AMSaturday, February 21, 2015
Once again in the spirit of allowing all voices to be heard, we here at Bitter Lemons have another opinion to offer into the mix. This from Los Angeles AEA member, Andrew Perez, who was guid…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 01:12PMFriday, February 20, 2015
And pretty much lands on the fence. Though his thoughts are well met: I believe that all artists should be compensated for their work. An economic model must be arrived at that can pay actor…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 06:22PM…and failed. To track down Nick Wyman, president of Actors’ Equity Association. Not in seeing some theater. I saw a bunch of shows (Hedwig!). Which I will get to in a moment, but…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 04:52PMTranslation: a cool EST/LA festival of staged readings of new works is opening this weekend over at the Atwater Village Theatre and I have a trio of new one acts that are included. I am actu…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 03:06PMThis is always a very cool offering from the Fringey folk. Basically, it’s a contest for artists to design the brand logo and cover of the Fringe guides for the next Fringe Festival …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 02:44PMThere was talk of “journalism” recently in the comments section here at the Lemon and for an exercise in how that word is such a difficult one to truly define in this day and age…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 02:08PMThursday, February 19, 2015
I made the change on my original announcement about this but figured I’d do another in case people were getting confused. Apparently I can make it now! But they seem to at capacity. Gr…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 07:50PMIf so, then I’d say color my ass black right now. Cuz I ain’t taking my name off the site. Here’s a recent message from someone who has decided to remove himself from the P…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 03:52PMThe following was written by Joel Swetow in response to an email from Mary McColl. It was posted and shared numerous times on Facebook and I am now co-opting it because it is one of THE most…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 02:41PMFuckin’ writers. So clear, so elegant, so…subtly engraved. I was a member of the ALAP. Am. Was. Hell, I dunno. I’m awful with clubs. Nevertheless, these guys have somethin…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 01:35AMOver 3357 in 24 hours apparently. And now 5171. Pretty damn impressive. It’s this Pro99 Facebook page that Jay McAdams, Executive Director of Los Angeles’ 24th Street Theatre, s…
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