Thursday, January 29, 2015
Yes, theater is blossoming all over here in Los Angeles and I have so many shows on my list to catch, I’m especially looking forward to the new Four Larks show Temptation of St. Anton…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 10:47PMMonday, January 26, 2015
If you’re considering putting on a Fringe show this year, these town halls and workshops are indispensable. Get them in your calendar now and go! Here’s the skinny from the man h…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 07:21PMAs we reported last week City Council Member, Mitch O’Farrell, submitted the motion that the city officially declare the area in and around Wilcox and Santa Monica Boulevard as “…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 03:25PMSunday, January 25, 2015
A-Burn has always said he wants his critiques to be “conversation starters not conversation enders.” Case in point, this week’s COW. A wonderful treat of provocative questi…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 10:00AMFriday, January 23, 2015
In exactly oh…43 minutes I will descend into the bowels of Zombie Joe’s Underground Theatre Group and begin rehearsing a play that did not even exist 24 hours ago. 24 hours after…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 10:02PMSWEET Winner of the “Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy,” this absorbingly entertaining play is full of dark humor and heart featuring three sisters – paranoid Mary, up…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 09:46PMgrow a pair of…wings Written by: Amelia Phillips Directed by: Stacie Hadgikosti Produced by: Amelia Phillips, Riva Di Paola and FRESH PRODUCE’d LA Sarah Klein was a good student, a g…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 05:34PMThursday, January 22, 2015
I decided to circumvent the top three and just get to the damn winner. Thanks to everyone who chimed in. All seven of you. Much appreciated. You can see a list of all the nominees here. Anyh…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 07:22PMLet the ties begin! Actually there are many well-deserved artists and companies included here so congrats to all! These are the members of the LADCC, so talk to them, not me: Pauline Adamek,…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 05:07PMThe real Hedwig has finally stood up. Can’t wait til February. Though I have to admit Hedwig is starting to look conspicuously like our wee Scottish (and long departed) granny Mari Cam…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 02:54PMWednesday, January 21, 2015
This is a lovely and poignant accounting from the always invigorating, Ernest Kearney, called Out My Window. I directed it (and I think I’m still getting credit on this one!) and it ha…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 04:48PMAnd we’re getting some media love which you can read about here and here. And yes, it’s true, I will be acting in this bad boy. I promise to bring it like it’s never been b…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 02:10PMYes, it’s true. It’s gettin’ all official and shit. Just in time to coincide with Schkapf leaving there artistic home on theater row after 11 years… Check out the off…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 12:29AMMonday, January 19, 2015
Grabbed this from a posting on the LA Theater Network (which has over 1500 members and growing!). It was posted by a Steve Apostolina and it’s a very good brass tacks compilation of wh…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 07:19PMFriday, January 16, 2015
The always colorful, Olya Petrakova, and her merry band of Schkapfers have been a welcome mainstay on LA’s theater row for over a decade. Their location was the first that housed the H…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 05:44PMThursday, January 15, 2015
We do this is Los Angeles Theater already, almost without knowing it. At least we’re doing it more often. Maybe it’s the immersive thing, maybe it’s the pop up festivals, …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 12:39PMWednesday, January 14, 2015
Here are some 2014 Los Angeles Theater highlights from Stage and Cinema’s top critics, Jason Rohrer and Tony Frankel, in no particular order. I think. First Jason: An Iliad (Broad Stag…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 04:11PMDon’t think I’m speaking out of school or betraying the privacy policy of the Union by making that assessment, because it seemed quite clear last night from the 318 AEA members w…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 02:22PMTuesday, January 13, 2015
Holy crap! Hey, that’s what “someone in the know” told me yesterday at the Equity Quarterly meeting. This is Los Angeles, of course, so there’s bound to be an attriti…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 04:28PMMonday, January 12, 2015
A-Burn lays down the highlights for him in 2014. Here are the productions he really dug: An Illiad (The Broad) Reasons to Be Pretty (Geffen) Choir Boy (Geffen) Orpheus (Four Larks) Five Smal…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 05:13PMWell it’s something. And that’s good news. Nice to see LASA stepping back into the fray, they’ve been awfully quite since their budgetary problems early in 2014 so I’…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 04:59PMSaturday, January 10, 2015
“Every year the Equity News does an issue devoted to statistics; number of work weeks, number of contracts used, what type, by region, revenue under each, etc. And a comparison to the …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 11:54AMFriday, January 9, 2015
I know this excellent article by Lyn Gardner across the pond over at The Guardian has been bouncing around for awhile now, but I’ve finally just had a chance to read it. And it is oh s…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 01:53AMThursday, January 8, 2015
Well looky looky at this. 99seattheatre.org I like. I really like. I know Sir Gregory of the Craft must be behind this somehow. Gregory! And those sneaky snow monkeys over at TPLLA, of cours…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 09:28PMThe first one is the general Western Regional Membership meeting and is happening Monday, January 12th at 11am at the new AEA HQ at 5636 Tujunga Ave, North Hollywood, CA 91601. It will proba…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 06:33PM So I wrote this post a couple months ago and have been updating it from the scintillating conversations going over at the Bigcheap List, but it’s gotten way too ungainly. So I&#…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 06:20PMSo as you may have noticed, things are heating up with the approaching AEA meeting concerning our sometimes beloved sometimes reviled 99 Seat Plan happening on Tuesday, January 13th. Which i…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 05:36PMGood news! This was tops on my list of LA Theater in 2014 and I was not alone in the praise for this fantastic production. Hearing that it is getting new life at the beautiful new Wallis is …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 04:51PMWednesday, January 7, 2015
Again and again, these frightened, cowardly neanderthals try and thwart those who seek to tell the truth and exert their right as humans to say what’s on their mind whether right or wr…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 02:24PMMonday, January 5, 2015
I was going to say these were LA Weekly’s favorite plays, but really, why bother. The LA Weekly is a shell, it’s the opinion of SLM that’s the brand. With all due respect t…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 06:37PMAnd there’s a whole shitload of them! Once again, a bit too many for my tastes – diluting the distinction – but nevertheless, congrats to all the winners. Here are the top …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 05:14PM 
