Thursday, September 25, 2014
As promised, we are going to try and bring all opinions, pro and con, to the fore, concerning the recently launched Call For Action from the Re-Imagine LA Theater Network. The first I’…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 01:43PMWednesday, September 24, 2014
Many of you were probably expecting this, others were probably in the loop already. And then there might be a few of you out there who might see this as a surprise. I find it to be very refr…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 03:25PMTuesday, September 23, 2014
Apparently actors Equity has been listening to this. On the same day that this post has suddenly gone viral apparently – even though it was initially posted some weeks ago (yes I have…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 07:20PMThis from Frances Baum Nicholson, longtime Los Angeles Theater critic and current proprietor of online review site The Stage Struck Review: The Los Angeles Newspaper Group has decided to tak…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 12:59AMWithout looking at these I’m going to make a couple of predictions: Cricket Meyers and John Zalewski will be nominated for something and there will be numerous ties come award night. T…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 12:19AMMonday, September 22, 2014
Yup. Me of the Mostly-Annoyed-and-Almost-Always-Bored-by-all-Musicals Fan Club has finally been shown the light. And it all came down in the silence between two actors speaking to each other…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 05:46PMSunday, September 21, 2014
Myron Meisel is simply hands down the most intelligent critic in Los Angeles. Case in point, this sumbitch right c’here. I feel smarter just reading it… HAPPY DAYS Myron Meisel &…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 10:00AMThis week’s batch of COWs emphasizes the “smart”. And they don’t get much smarter than the Grande Dame of LA Theater Criticism, Sylvie Drake. Sit up and take notice, …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 09:00AMBetter from Count Obfuscate…and much more entertaining. If only he had this much fun with stuff he didn’t like instead of “representin’” all the time. THE BEHAV…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 08:00AMFriday, September 19, 2014
Grabbed this from the Bigcheap List where this conversation continues to rage. Hope Ron doesn’t mind. Considering that there are over 2000 members on the list it’s not like this …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 02:41PMThursday, September 18, 2014
Code word for your $10 discounted tickets is “lemon”. The night of the performance is a week from today, Thursday, Sept. 25th, 8pm at Theatre Asylum. Go here to get your tickets…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 03:41PMAlways a good sign when productions from the “intimate” wings find a home with the “big boys”. Here’s the skinny from the presser: The Geffen Playhouse announce…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 02:22AMWednesday, September 17, 2014
One of our favorite companies here at the Lemon, Lost Moon Radio, did yet another funny little video parody, this time of of master documentarian Ken Burns, and lo and behold that mighty mag…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 04:29PMWhy hello, Backstage! You guys still paying attention to little old LA Theater, are ya? So nice of you to notice… All mocking aside, this is actually a pretty solid list - I could add…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 04:05PMTuesday, September 16, 2014
Here’s the latest from the Boys by the Bay: Welcome to Born Ready episode 10! This week we sit down with Jamie Wright and Sam Shaw, producers of the San Francisco Improv Festival and t…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 04:43PMNo. Really. The whole afternoon. And potentially the better part of the evening. You’re going to need all of it to read through them all. Here’s my favorite snippet from the Sc…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 04:32PMSWEET The ideal convergence of Mike Bartlett’s incredibly realistic script vividly emoted by the very talented four member cast, as tightly directed by Cameron Watson, make for a total…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 04:17PMMonday, September 15, 2014
And rightly so. Don says it all so much better than me or you: Once upon a time, CTG’s website vowed to produce programming that “reflects and informs our own community” th…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 02:32PMNot even a jot of a mention about AEA. You remember them? Actors Equity Association? Union of Professional Stage Actors? The Union that basically presides – by default – over m…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 01:55PMSunday, September 14, 2014
I was remiss in not including this in one of our COWs in August. I am rectifying that remissiveness (is that a word?(It is now!). When Ernest gets his dander up it’s awfully dandy to b…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 10:00AMThis one drips with context and pulses with Tony’s own personality through and through. Nice to see him back to his old ways. Some of his latest offerings have seemed a bit like throw-…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 09:00AMSaturday, September 13, 2014
Haven’t posted one of these in a while, but this is a pretty tasty trailer for what might be a pretty tasty show. Deaf West’s Spring Awakening, opening this weekend.
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 12:33AMFriday, September 12, 2014
“Would I do that to my horse?” A line pulled from the ether of an actor’s imagination, forged like hammer blows on the anvils of colliding moments that came before, interl…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 04:32PMThursday, September 11, 2014
I saw someone list this somewhere the other day – was probably that brain drain Facebook – and thought it might be fun to try and do it for myself. These would be the productions…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 12:35AMTuesday, September 9, 2014
As usual Uncle Steven has much to say on the state of LA’s 99 Seat Plan. And as always we should sit up and take notice from this LA Theater historian who has been writing reviews pret…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 06:45PMMy father would have been 81 today. He passed away last year, March 3rd, 2013. He is now buried in Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. To honor him I re-post the eulogy I wrote and del…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 10:00AMMonday, September 8, 2014
Okay, LemonHeads, you ready for this one? Create the best #LAThtr brand logo, gain fame, immortality, and free advertising at Bitter Lemons. Boom. Obviously a brand is only as good as its pr…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 09:56PMI guess I always knew this, having worked as a professional actor in all three of these cities, on Broadway, Off-Bway, Off-Off-Bway, freakin’ Park Slope in the NYC, in the Tenderloin, …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 07:24PMSunday, September 7, 2014
Some more “hurtful” and “biased” criticism from Tony the Frank, from that “nasty” and “vicious” review site, Stage and Cinema. And yeah, this …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 04:46PMThe next in the triad of this week’s COWs from Stage and Cinema. Tony the Frank enjoying a show, almost by surprise. This one is a bit sleight – as far as Tony the Frank offerin…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 04:38PMThis week’s COWs all come from that “hurtful” review site, Stage and Cinema, featuring those “biased” critics Jason Rohrer and Tony Frankel, and the reasoning …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 04:30PM 
