Friday, October 31, 2014
This is a big deal. I’m basically a hibernating member of EST/’LA, been associated with them since back in the early 90′s in NYC and here in LA since the late 90′s, a…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 11:14PMExhibit A: The theater production entitled A or B? currently playing at the Falcon Theatre. Exhibit B: The current LemonMeter Rating for said production which stands at 90% Sweet. Now I want…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 03:00AMThursday, October 30, 2014
That’s the news from AEA (thanks for the tip, Rob!) naming Gail E. Gabler as the new Western Regional Director AND Assistant Executive Director, replacing the now-you-see-hiim-now-you…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 01:23PMTuesday, October 28, 2014
Say it ain’t so! Just got word of this through a couple of my birdies. Myron won LA Weekly’s Excellence in Criticism award this year and his writings at The Hollywood Reporter h…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 11:13PMI’m a big A-Burn fan. He’s great at mining metaphors from the theater he sees and clearly he’s a very savvy and experienced critic when it comes to LA Theater. His conversa…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 10:17PMMonday, October 27, 2014
The first comes from a well-seasoned, well respected, award-winning critic who currently writes for a major publication here in Los Angeles. I will leave his name out of the mix to protect t…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 02:50PMNice to see these guys getting some love from ATM (see below). Well deserved. Here’s their latest, touching on awards and such. And if all goes well I’ll be on one of these damn …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 03:10AMSunday, October 26, 2014
Just take out your notepads, LA Theater Critics, and go to school on this one from Ern the Mick. Besides being smart and inquisitive, it’s also an entertaining read. Some ask that the …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 10:00AMSometimes blunt is all you need to be a COW. FOREVER Brian Sonia-Wallace – ArtsBeatLA Forever was, to quote an elderly gentleman leaving the theatre, “not my cup of tea.” The lates…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 09:00AMHey, you don’t see a review written in the form of an “ironic free verse shaped as a totem” very often. You just don’t. So…here ya go… PREMEDITATION Andre…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 08:00AMSaturday, October 25, 2014
Saw this on Jason the Roar’s Facebook page (it’s not a private forum people!) and then of course on the Vagrancy Facebook page (still not a private forum!). The overall review is…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 09:53PM“I began this review by discussing the advantage to theaters of producing one-person shows, and the short-cut writing a personal memoir offers. Orlandersmith often consulted a notebook…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 10:00AMFriday, October 24, 2014
It’s such a great thing to have the writing and thinking of a Sylvie Drake back in the mix of LA Theater. She was a longtime LA Times critic and now writes for Cultural Weekly and we&#…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 02:04PMThursday, October 23, 2014
Hard to tell so far, because no one will go on the record to explain why the production of Othello that was set to open at the Odyssey on October 25th has been shuttered. Which makes sense. …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 04:43PMWednesday, October 22, 2014
As many of you know, I’m not a huge fan of “movement pieces”. But after seeing Invertigo Dance Company’s wildly entertaining After It Happened, I now know why. And I …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 12:55PMMonday, October 20, 2014
Gatz. Redcat. The Great Gatsby. In its entirety. Performed by the magicians of Elevator Repair Service from the NYC. Saw it. Loved it. They are coming back. It’s called Arguendo. The …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 09:37PMSunday, October 19, 2014
Joel Beers is just too fucking good to be stuck down there in the OC. Not that there’s anything wrong with the OC, but Joel, baby, get your ass up here so you can shine some of your pa…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 11:41AMSome incredibly rich theater criticism from one of LA’s best. THE GOAT OR, WHO IS SYLVIA? Ernest Kearney – Working Author It is a question of passion in Edward Albee’s “The G…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 10:00AMSaturday, October 18, 2014
“This production, which had a successful run earlier this year at the small NoHo Arts Center in the San Fernando Valley, would be newsworthy alone for its move to an institutional thea…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 12:28PMFriday, October 17, 2014
The Imbibable Boys by the Bay are at it again. Entertaining and enlightening theater talk…and drinking on air. You can have it all! They have been threatening to get me on the show. We…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 04:57PMI don’t know Casey as well as I know Janet, but I thoroughly recommend voting for both of them. Let’s get some local blood – informed smart experienced local blood – …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 04:47PMThursday, October 16, 2014
Did you know that theater artists were not added to the Hollywood Walk of Fame until 1984, twenty four years after the inaugural launch of the Walk of Fame in 1960? Adam Leipzig does and he …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 04:35PMWednesday, October 15, 2014
It’s a strange thing to be an artistic community’s sometimes therapist and seemingly full-time confidante. But in many ways, I’ve brought it on myself. Whereas many folk fi…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 02:07PM#LAThtr. Launched on Bitter Lemons, June 6th, 2010. Don’t mess, or you’ll get the hashtag. I’m telling you this is still a good idea. Any takers? Shit, this sucker right he…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 12:03AMTuesday, October 14, 2014
If you still think that the “death of print” can somehow be reversed – or isn’t happening – here’s Exhibit A to the contrary: “San Francisco — and the…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 06:58PMMonday, October 13, 2014
This: 24th STreet Theatre’s “Enter Stage Right” expands to 90 schools with support from Rosenthal Family Foundation LOS ANGELES (Oct. 13, 2014) – 24th STreet Theatre has received a $…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 09:35PMI know the source of this joke – sworn to secrecy again! – and there are certainly others like it in different forms, but I found this particular hybrid to be most relevant to t…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 09:16PMThis from a new HowlRound article penned by Mr. Rodriguez on his experience with LA’s 99 Seat Plan: After a couple of years spent acclimating to the realities of LA, we reorganized and…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 07:29PMLove how personal this week’s COW is, how Michelle takes us on a journey, kicking and screaming, and finds herself breaching the light on the other side of the tunnel. A good read. THE…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 03:19PMSunday, October 12, 2014
I have not been a fan of David St. Nichols work, if I’m being honest, I find that although he’s clearly a fine a writer and smart and knows theater, he holds back or hides behind…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 12:38PMMany of you have already read this I’m sure, but for those of you who haven’t, here’s are some of the highlights from McNulty’s latest LA Times inclusion into this…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 03:25AM 
