Critique of the Week – Runner Runner Up by Colin Mitchell

This 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 …

KCRW’s Anthony Byrnes on the Economic Realities of LA’s 99 Seat Plan by Colin Mitchell

More Sturm und Drang on that old 99 Seat Plan, this time from T-Burn over at KCRW. Here’s the meat of his matter: What’s missing from this dialogue is the broader point and econ…

FRESH PRODUCE’d LA is seeking a Director for our Inaugural Full-length Production by Colin Mitchell

FRESH PRODUCE’d LA is seeking a Director for our Inaugural Full-length Production: “Hey Brother” Written by – Bekah Brunstetter Hey Brother – In this story of b…

Rob Weinert-Kendt on the 99 Seat Plan: “The cost of failure is often too small to be instructive at all.” by Colin Mitchell

Granted, Senior Editor at American Theatre Magazine, Rob Weinert-Kendt, wrote the above quote back in 2003 at an LA Stage Alliacne SRO conference, but pivoting off a Bitter lemons article wr…

Ford Theatre Set for Some Upgrades by Colin Mitchell

Don Shirley beat me to the punch on this one. The Ford Theater is about to become even cooler than it already is if all this upgrade and renovation talk is true. Here’s Don: For decade…

The Debt Sentence by Colin Mitchell

David Svengalis guided me to an interesting article over at American Theatre – thanks David! – by Diep Tran entitled Debt Sentence. It’s all about the debt incurred by thea…

The 99 Seat Theater War is Upon Us by Colin Mitchell

Has been for a while really, but it does seem like it’s coming to a head these days. Case in point, the very detailed and divergent conversation currently occurring at the BigCheap The…

DJ Kurs and his Spring Awakening – By Dale Reynolds by Colin Mitchell

The tireless Dale Reynolds from Stagehappenings decided to get down and dirty with Deaf West’s head honcho, DJ Kurs, and he asked if we might share the offering with the LemonHeadNatio…

Critique of the Week by Colin Mitchell

What the hell is a “representative outing”? What does that mean? What am I supposed to glean from that phrase? Maybe you can sort it out, LemonHeads, but for me, this is yet agai…

Latest Born Ready Podcast: Duncan Wold on Music and Art by Colin Mitchell

And yet another installment from those Bad Boys by the Bay sometimes known as Born Ready. Here’s their blurb for this latest episode: Welcome to the ninth installment of Born Ready! Th…

24th Street Theatre’s “Walking The Tightrope” to get a Revival at Kirk Douglas Theatre by Colin Mitchell

That’s the good news. The bad news is that it isn’t happening until May of 2015! And the somewhat confusing news, at least for me, is, why aren’t they doing a full run? 24t…

Why is Stage and Cinema Being Removed from Review Lists? by Colin Mitchell

It has come to my attention that one of the top publicists in Los Angeles, David Elzer, has recommended to his clients that they no longer offer free tickets and invitations to Stage and…

Critique of the Week by Colin Mitchell

I missed this gem from the incomparable Bill Raden from a while back cuz I was out of town. Well it’s still good. There are few writers who can say so much so well in such a short amou…

R.I.P. ROBIN WILLIAMS: 1951-2014 by Colin Mitchell

Is Steven Leigh Morris Advocating Mediocrity? by Colin Mitchell

Well the first clue in answering that question is that the title of his latest piece over at Stage Raw is called On the Virtues of Mediocrity. Though there does appear to be an attempt at…

McNulty with some Advice for LA Theater: “Visionaries Need Apply” by Colin Mitchell

Firstly, it’s nice to see Chuck McNutt becoming more and more invested in the community in which he makes a living while he waits for his call from the New York Times. That’s a g…

Critique of the Week by Colin Mitchell

First review I’ve read by this guy Rich Kane of the OC Weekly. After reading, you may become a fan too. IN THE HEIGHTS Rich Kane – OC Weekly Build your own dreams, or someone wil…

The Saturday Saying by Colin Mitchell

“Jonathan Tolins’ “Buyer & Cellar” has a few good (albeit snide) laughs in its fictional account of a struggling LA actor (Michael Urie) who’s hired by Barb…

“Women” Will Make You Laugh by Colin Mitchell

This is happening in September, LemonHeads. Go see it and laugh for an hour or so. Guaranteed. You don’t have to know shit going in. Just go in. They won our freakin’ BLIFF for B…

Latest Born Ready Podcast: A Shakespeare Battle Royale by Colin Mitchell

More high-brow hi-jinx from the boys in SF. Here’s the lead in: Welcome to the eighth episode of BORN READY, our Shakespeare Battle Royal featuring Shakespearean director and general e…

Second Annual Festival of the Offensive (F-OFF) Accepting Applications for 2015 by Colin Mitchell

The lovely and offensive, Ms. Jacquetta Szathmari, wanted to clang the alarum bell for her second annual Festival of the Offensive and see if any of us LA peeps wanted to get in on the offen…

Watch the Bitter Lemons’ Critics Panel from the Hollywood Fringe by Colin Mitchell

Here it is. Finally! It’s a bit long, but very entertaining and informative, and if you can’t digest it all at once it’s worth checking out in segments. Many thanks to Leon…

Critique of the Week by Colin Mitchell

Ernest really likes this play. And when Ernest really likes something, this happens. THE BROTHERS SIZE Ernest Kearney – Working Author In describing his play “The Brothers Size”, p…

Chalk Rep, “Lady Windermere’s Fan” and Miley Cyrus – by Crescent Rainwater by Colin Mitchell

Some interesting musings from a smart lady with a cool name. Not sure I buy it all, but it’s a good read nonetheless. Enjoy. Artistic Portrayals of Gender Policing are, Sadly, Timeless…

Born Ready Podcast: “Tackling theater’s thorniest issues…over a totally reasonable amount of beers…” by Colin Mitchell

These guys are great and we’re hoping to make them a regular feature here at the Lemon. Here’s a little info from one of the masterminds, Rob Ready: “Theater has issues. We…

Thou Shalt Not Bore by Colin Mitchell

Am still in Colorado working frantically to turn my parents’ house into a new home for my brother’s family. Had an amazing road trip. Utah was especially spectacular. And the loc…

Critique of the Week by Colin Mitchell

Been quite a while since I posted a Critique of the Week (COW) and figured I’d get back in the swing of things by highlighting this absolute thrashing of the latest Ahmanson regurgitat…

Off to Colorado. Again. by Colin Mitchell

The final phase of a seven month operation that started in January is finally underway, as I once again take off for Colorado to help move my brother’s family into my parents’ ho…

Just because… by Colin Mitchell

This is what I love most about the Digital Age. That we can do things like this. The guy who starts this video, the guy on the guitar who starts this thing, I used to listen to him play on t…

More Criticisms of LA Theater’s 99 Seat Plan by Colin Mitchell

Things are certainly coming to a head on this, you can check out a couple of the stories we’ve posted on the subject here and here and here. This latest addition is from Kyle Nudo and …

Whose Bowel Movement is Responsible for the “NoHo Gateway”? by Colin Mitchell

Apparently it was a collective effort. Everybody knows it. Oh sure they do. But they look away. They try and ignore it. If it’s mentioned in conversation they scoff and wave it away a…